THE WAY BBOWN MANAGED THEM.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2598, 5 May 1877, Page 4

THE WAY BBOWN MANAGED THEM.

" Brown, I don't know how. it is that your girls marry off as soon as they get old enbugh, while none of ririne can marry." : i • , ,- v •'

." Oh, that's simple enough. I marry my girls off on.the buckwheat straw principle.". " But wbat is that principle ? I never heard of it before!"

"Well, I used to raise a good deal of buckwheat, and it puzzled me to know how to get rid of the straw. Nothing wbuldeat it, and it was a great bother vto me. At last I thought of a plan. I stacked my buckwheat straw nicely, and built a high rail fence around it. My cattle of course -concluded that it was; something good, and at once tore down the fenceand began to eat the. straw. I dogged them away, and put up the fence a few times, but the more I drove : them away the«more anxious they became to eat the straw, and eat it they did, every bit of it. As I said, I marry my girls off on. the same principle. When a young man that I don't like begins calling on my girla, I encourage him in every way I can. I tell him to come often and stay as late as he pleases, and I take pains to hint to the girls that they'd better set their caps for him. It works first-rate. He don't make many calls, for the girls treat him as coolly as they can. But when a young fellow that I like conies around—a man that I think would suit me for a son-in-law—-I .don't let him make many calls before I give him to understand that he isn't wanted around my house. I tell the girls, too, that they shall not have: anything to do with him, ana give them orders not to speak to him again. The plan always, acts first-rate; The young folks begin to pity each other; and the next thing I know is that they are engaged to be married. When I see thai; they are determined to marry I always give in and pretend.to make the best of it. That's the way I manage it." ■■■:,-'■ , :