ADVICE TO MARRIAGEABLE LADIES.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VII, Issue 381, 12 August 1874, Page 3

ADVICE TO MARRIAGEABLE LADIES.

Don't marry a rich man. If he has made his own money, then he is stingy ; if he hasn't niad*e it then he is a spendthrift. In either case he is sure to be intolerably conceited and thoroughly spoiled. Don't marry a rich man unless you have got as much money as he has ; for the first time he quarrels with you he will throw his magnan-. imity in marrying you in your teeth, and never let it out of your sight again. Don't marry a popular man. The man who knows everybody and is known by everybody, who calls all the young ladies "my dear child," and all the young men "my boys," and everyone in general " his dearest friend " The man who sqeezes your hand tremendously the first time he meets you, and tells you he feels an affinity for you. The man who adapts himself in all things to all men, interests himself in your smallest affairs, and draws out your confidence like a poultice. The man who gets invitations to balls, and introductions to "swells" for every one. The man who arranges picnics. The man who tells comic anecdotes, sings comic songs, and gets up charades, round games, and impromptu dances ; who is the centre of attraction wherever he goe3, and whom everybody calls a " delightful person " and an " invaluaWe acquisition." Don't be tempted to try and bind that acquisition to yonr private chariot wheels. Depend upon it, after he has married you, he will be everybody's slave, treasure, and joy — except yours. Don't marry an economical man. The man who turns up his trousers at the ankles when there is a spot of mud on the pavement, and who will run a mile after an omnibns, if he is caught in a shower, rather than take a fiacre, or, if he does take one, haggles with the driver about the fare, and presents him with one sou pour boire. The man who wears goloshes, and gets his overcoats turned instead of giving them to his valet. The man who spends an hour snipping the margin of his letters in order to avoid putting on an extra stamp, and who will spend another hour holding a letter he has sealed and wants to reopen over the steam of a tea-kettle rather than spoil the envelope by splitting it. If such a man, after infinite deliberation and calculation of consequences and additional expenses, makes up his mind to invite you to come and help him to pare his cheese and " breadcrumb " his dirty- white kids, refuse him, though you were on the wrong side of thirty and never had an offer before. He would be quite capable of buying your drawing-room furniture second hand, and of putting a silver-gilt weddingring on your taper finger. If. however, you want to be good natured with him, refuse him by letter, and understamp it. The aggravation ho will feel at having to pay overweight will quite counterbalance and neutralise the pain your refusal might otherwise 'have occasioned him. — Miss Parnell in the " Americiin Register."