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To the Girls.
Men who are worth having want women for wives. A bundle of gewgaws bound with a string of flats and quavers, sprinkled with cologne, and set in a carmine saucer--this is no help for a man, who expects to raise a family on veritable bread and meat. The piano and lace frame are good in their places and so are ribbons, frills and tinsels, but you cannot make a dinner of former, nor can you make a bed blanket of the latter. And awful as the word may sound to the ear, bed blankets are necessary to domestic happiness. Life has its realities as well as fancies; but you make it all a matter of decoration remembering the tassels and curtains, but forgetting the bedstead. Suppose a man of good sense, and of course good prospects, to be looking for a wife--what chance have you to be chosen? You may cap him, or may trap him or catch him, but how much better to make it an object for him to catch you! Render your self worth catching, and you will need no shrewd mother or brother to help you find a market. Lynch.Rep.
SOUTHERN BANNER [ATHENS, GA], February 18, 1863, p. 1, c. 2
Обратите внимание: заметка появилась во время войны, когда возник естественный дефицит женихов.
Men who are worth having want women for wives. A bundle of gewgaws bound with a string of flats and quavers, sprinkled with cologne, and set in a carmine saucer--this is no help for a man, who expects to raise a family on veritable bread and meat. The piano and lace frame are good in their places and so are ribbons, frills and tinsels, but you cannot make a dinner of former, nor can you make a bed blanket of the latter. And awful as the word may sound to the ear, bed blankets are necessary to domestic happiness. Life has its realities as well as fancies; but you make it all a matter of decoration remembering the tassels and curtains, but forgetting the bedstead. Suppose a man of good sense, and of course good prospects, to be looking for a wife--what chance have you to be chosen? You may cap him, or may trap him or catch him, but how much better to make it an object for him to catch you! Render your self worth catching, and you will need no shrewd mother or brother to help you find a market. Lynch.Rep.
SOUTHERN BANNER [ATHENS, GA], February 18, 1863, p. 1, c. 2
Обратите внимание: заметка появилась во время войны, когда возник естественный дефицит женихов.