THE CRIMINAL ROMANCER.

Evening Star, Issue 3510, 23 May 1874, Page 3

THE CRIMINAL ROMANCER.

Our readers will remember the gallant exploits of the gay : yoiung cavalier and romancer of crime, John Morrison, amongst the ladies in this Province, and as the' case has excited a considerable amount of; attention throughout the Colony, and will excite still more when it comes before the Supreme Court, we, give the following; piece of very racy aud amusing writing found in the prisoner s possession j—;. ’’ ■ > ri-*' Mobbisoh..and the Ladies.” onto, who had hot got a wife, t DC j-■ e » pit . l l ed a good many who had. “ The Ladies —it was rt very difficult subjea. ' If he were to say all he. thought w&ild accuse mm of flattery, and if he were to say what some ?/ perhaps would not like it. Ihe charming creatures, although they were not all alike. For instance, he had some grapes, and one was very plump and luscious and sweet, whilst the next, was shrivelled up and tart, bu,t the bunch* op fhje whole, was gooc. It was p weakuess pf theirs that they weie never satisfied tj,II they were married, and some of them, were never satisfied 'thou. In °i t®' fn^h A fu i l examples they.lwk the yopi„ ladies would get married directly they got the chancy., Hp remqipbprcil the case of an old genfleihan lyhose daughter a young ■ r£ VH l U,s^d cou . r |. The old gentleman was a little man, and his wife was not one of the pleasantest, arid on one occasion he said the aiuerenoe between him and the young man was tnis; * the young man would give all he had to get married, whilst he would i* jli. , i bad to get unmarried. He advised the ladies to get married as soon as they could, notwithstanding the testimony of the lady, who said the difference between the honeymoon and a honeycomb was that the latter was composed of a lot of little cells, wnust the honeymoon was one great “ soil u altogether. Ot course some ladies were nice and some not quite so nice. Some were weak-minded and some were strqngmiinded women. Astrongmmdqd w«map was the American lady who unfortunately lost her husband, and who telegraphed to her friends \ “Poor William has gone at last; loss fully covered by insurance.” Womtui is all that 1 she should be—.gentle, patient, long-suffering, trustful, unselfish, and full of _ generous impulses. It is her blessed to comfort the sorrowing, plead for the erring, encourage the faint of purpose, succor the distressed, uplift the fallen, befriend the friendless; in a word, afford the nearing of her sympathies and a home in her heart for all the bruised and persecuted children of misfortune who knock at its hospital door. And when I say “ God bless her,V there is none among us who has the ennobling affection of a wife, or, the stern devotion of a mother, (jut ip his'heart will say “ Amen.”