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THE ATHENS GEORGIAN: SEPTEMBER 12, 1876. MARRIAGE. What Dio Lewis Thinks of The Marriage State. AN' AMUSING letter from THAT NOTO RIETY SEEKER- IIIS PITY FOR BACHELORS—AN ALL-POWER- FIX LOVE OF WOMAN. helps him fight the buttle of life more successfully. It only keeps him from habits which are in direct antagonism to a correct aud happy and successful life, - and- when lie gets through “knocking about,” he has nothing to show for the mispent years save th# habits which he must overcome if he would make anvthing of himself. The following very interesting let-; Do you call that a gain or loss ? So, ter, on the subject of marriage, is j young man, take the advice of a man from the pen of the celebrated Bosto- who has kept his eyes open for more nian, Dr. Dio Lewis, and is now j years than you have lived, probably, printed here for the first time. It was 1 and don’t “ knock around ” If you written to a young gentleman, in think I have overdrawn the picture, response to an inquiry asking his look arouud you, aud out of the men judgment and advice ui>on that im-' you know, select those who have ]K>rtant step in life: : “ knocked around,’’ and see if they i which constitutes the crowning act of advice to young men. I do not bear witness to the truth of j man’s highest, noblest manhood, but My Dear Sir: der. So be quite sure that you have a talent for what you undertake be fore yon leave the farm. . You say, in common with most young men, that you intend to settle down “ some time.’’ Then, why not now? The fact that most men do intend to settle down some time, shows the general opinion that the married life is the true. life. It is. You can never be the man without a wife, that you can he with one. The sooner you make up yonr mind to be what you were intended to be, the better for yon. Don’t waste years in “ knocking about.” Don’t “ put off till a more convenient season ’’ that BIVALVES Don Piatt on tlie Oyster. The month of September in the succession of season is hailed by tlie subinnary soul with unspeakable emotions. It is true that this month does not bring unalloyed happiness in its train, for among its attendants are catalog ued the musical mosquito and the malarial miasma; and the dry heat of noonday is succeeded bv the damp, soggy evenings, while at midnight the winds creep down from the moun tain tops hearing upon their wings prophetic particles of winter’s frost, lint no sesson of year and no condi tion of life is without its eompensa- . . , ting equitv that carries the remedv I receive so many i every assertion I have made concerning : find some one you can love for life (; n j (g jyft.j'iimd fur t j ie jp ; t bring | n letters asking advice on similar sub-1 'he class they represent. Are they j and make her your wife. Then, and ! j tg jects to those you mention, that I | meu }' ou envy? I tell you, boys, j not till then, you will understand; ftT September propitiates its ene- have concluded to write you a letter j “ knocking around” makes a man j what the possibilities of yonr life arc. [ mics a|)d anie ]; oratcs ; ts afflictions voice, which shall be a general answer to all | g°nd for nothing else, aud I take it j Boys, don’t “knockabout.” Get j proclaiming in a still small such enquiries. After you have read you have a desire to be good for j married and make yourselves a home, i:, you can send it to whatever paper , something higher in life, you see fit, and thus it will reach a Young men say to me, “I can’t class it most concerns. Editors are afford to marry.” I always get out ,,,ar,,C, ‘ V—-ves a u ; g ^ me er cf ti<J . If you take tins prescription tor future I ing n||(I tb# forerilmlcr of thc bcllcfi . cent bivalve. The oyster is an object for the an tiquarian, the historian, the lawyer j and the lover to contemplate serious happiness, resolving to do thc “ best that in you lies” to make tire most of 1 keen fellows at discovering ba-is of of patience when they say that. If life, you will never regret it. common sense in an article, such as I j y ou ca " support yourself, you can j Sincerely, Dio Lewis. intend tins advice -hall have what- support a wife. I don’t mean a fash- •»* — ... ,. . , ever other graces it may he lacking I liable young lady, I mean a wife. A ' 1 ’ . i . > i i ia ; and as their observations will bear young couple who go to house-keen- arrival of the right hand and out the assertions I make, they will ; '"St and exercise common sense and ; wrist from France. I not hesitate to endorse what I guv bv 1 economy, will get along hotter on a feelingly. There is no article of food except ing the lactic fluid, miraculous inan- i na and a half a dozen other primi- soiirces of substance, that stands . , j From New York Sundav Herald. giving it such circulation as they may j ^ss amount than it took to support , A f raginont C) f the great statue of I t ive < consider the case warrants. ! the husband before marriage even if j Liberty , destined for Bedloe’s Island, j so high, both as to goo d character Do IadMse >ou to mam .- Most j care uo expense.. ns ex- j was put ashore at pier 57, North | an a ancient origin, as the bivalve certainly I do. I auvise every voung j c "* c wing able to marry, is no , p. itl.o i . . ■ . .. *,* , . n t.* [ Liver, vesterday, irom the Trent It . whose arrival among as we hail with man to select himself a wife and settle excuse at all. It a young man will . „ „ t* • i I .. . . . , , . • , , steamer, Labrador. It was contained i songs of triumph, down. “A man unmarried is only tvor«c before marriage, he will work l • , „ „ , » 1 ‘ 1 -’ ° ’ . in a huge ease, as large as a small half what lie might be with a wife,” more and better after. Ilehassome- Dr. Hall used to sav. and he was thing to work for, and will make the I , , . , . , ° I As the medium of a moral the oyster is not to be despised. The legal profession l:as the reputation of sacrificing more of its friends to its shrine than any other cf the theoreti cal trio. This weakness of that learn ed and unconscionable calling has never been so happily illustrated as by Boileau, with the assistance of the oyster. We quote Pope’s transla tion, not that our readers are famil iar with th * original, but out of res pect for the oyster: “Once, says an author, where I need not say, Two travelers found an oyster in their way; Both fierce, both hungry, the dispute grey strong, While, scale in hand, Dame Justice passed along Before her each, with clamor, pleads thc laws, Explained thc matter and would win the cause. Dame Justice,weighing long the doubtful right, Takes, opens, swallows it before their sight, The cause of strife removed so rarely we^j, There take, says Justice, each a shell; We thrive at Westminister on fools like you; 'Tir. s n fat oyster, live in peace, adieu 1” In concluding this brief and un worthy allusion to the priceless pearl of the palate we feel called upon to recognize the life of an oyster of be ing exempt from many of the acci dents attendant upon a higher order of creation. Whoever, for instance, heard of an oyster that had a mother- in-law or suffered from corns ? and Horace or James Smith, in describ- ! is a wise bird, solenm-’nn. False hair is now real hair so closelyu,,.. possible to tell which % These new now *14 away with newspaper journal must run on The Fillerdelfier ^ revising the spelling of?* 5 * langwidge haz adje^^ “ We find that he from calling Bill .Jacket of a; the verdict Missouri. A locomotive driif proud of the wound*!,,, the army, because anv...... ways carries his cars A man in Burlington, j, used tobacco freelv fo. years and still lives, jp. f- chewed “ Centurv.’’ The verses,.“I love a weigh,” are suppose] , oi;; written by a grocer measures. Bv “the kroner, re <*cir«4 to J Governor.’'-^, work to keep yo"r son* h while they arc vonng; it* l.^ ing the total absence of fear, i emarks to keep ’em in cheek* *1* that a certain dreadful thing had no j grow older, more terror to his hero than have tight boots to an oyster. Southey, in a philosophical mood, of hoards nailed i addresses this startling exclamation in a huge ease, and he was thing to work for, and wiil make the | d " L ' lin ®’ ”™ dc ; „ .. . , .. rndelv together, with open spaces | to Ins renders: right, ‘jod intended every man to most ot Ins time and onportumties. , . ... ... . . . . ,, j ... * , .-| An.i « .. -II a l i , between. All ot the statue it held “Who built the pyramids, who ale the fiwt marry when lie became a man, and if I And a true wife will do her share and ,, •. . • i ,. • . ’ , , . was the wrist and right hand, with a I °> hteT ‘ ' amtas vamtatnm omuia vanitai*.’ he fails to do so, he loses the best of bc more ot a help than he ever had . ' , , . . , . . ^ ... , ,, , , ., section of the torch winch the right lire. Lvery young man should make ' a,, y "* ( 'a a wife could be. Getting himself a heme. When he has that, j married is a stroke of economy. j * ." T tI ’ . . ’ 1 ) bean, which will serve as a light house j with which we regard a raw oyster 1 beacon. The vast ease rested on n i on the half shell, if we could roll track, and was an object of much cu- j back the civilization of ages and the A Rampant Trunk. A PRIOR STREET MAN’S EXPERIENCE AS A BAGGAGE SMASHER. If we could dismiss from our minds arm is to hold aloft, hearing a flam- j the respect, fondness and familiarity lie is anchored. He is king in the j And, young man, don’t get the in best kingdom on earth. Until he is j sane idea in your -head that you married, his life is lacking in that j °"gl't to go to the city. If you have which best develops his manhood. ! a firm or can buy one, and know With a wife to love and work for, and j lllorc about farming than any other to cheer and keep him, he begins to j profession, stick to it. The trades be what Gou made him to be. a, ' c ‘ overcrowded. Only superior tal- You ask me what 1 think about | e "t pushes its way up in them. I “seeing the world” before marrving? ! Young men r.rc apt to get grander j I don’t think much of it. Travefis | notions than they are capable of ™ 6 thmnb wind, partly encircled travel, and “knocking about,” as i backing up. Don’t bother to think j lie t ® nll ’( a l,u S e cyh»'lqf of twelve they say, is quite another thing. It is : " hat you would do if you were j feet *" c ‘ rcHmfcr e»£P’' a bad thing. What do you expect to ! some one else. You are yourself and > gigantic m gain bv it? The voting man who j you can’t be anybody else, so go to l ^ un '^ >na ^ a ' oac ’ a ~ . , “knocks about” f>rT few years, work and be your lionest self to the hundml P° nnds avoirdu I )0,s might'vhmh some of the gentler sex never lavs „p anvil,ing. He roams ! evtenl of yonr ability. I knon- tbat *" d •■noveroouiy eeaUhanin aThird | r ''’. i '“ <, "; ,ns . 0 f I ? r " r V* from one place lo another, and gets ^ »<« quite apt for fanner boys to think j a ' Cm “ , As ‘". r i,r "' 0cl< ;' v , ’ ’’“ “, b “, m ““": . . _ ° , i . i . * the elbow »uid ooeniii^ into tlie ixiltu «uitipathv to one of thc lushest into an unsettled, restless way of liv- there must be some easier way to get 1 ^ ° lnnfnr ^i Ja. i . • • ,. , , i j* • i * a . . of the hard three men ot ordinary material gilts of 1 io\idenco, provmir mg, which become* a habit iust as a bving than by farming, but easy 01 l, ‘ c na ‘‘ a ’ f “ ,cn 01 . ,; \ ® • ^ . . * | 1 • «• - _ f QtTtnre mtcrlit w’llk abreast within its tliat in a state ot nature we do not hard to break np as any other bad , ' vork 1S something no man ever found, stature nulitwatk abreast nitnin its . wliat’s best f.r one. In the he,t rent, of hi* life, Work i s work, the world orer-nerer , “‘enor. It ,s sa,d that ,„ sl de the “ l ,. „ •. • , , , . J . , . imner and broader nart of the arm 1 his idea of the courage requisite m when he ought to he making hhnself; If you, hare been brought np , "H” » J ! some nnnda to surmenet the harriers and wife a home, lie is squandering | on a larm > t,nnk » thousand times ab0 ' e t,ic tlbo "’ as man - v 519 mne ! his manhood, and the chances are 1 before yon leave it. It will yield you men can that be will not settle down and go j » *** >•« »» ' year out, | j rod to by the witty Bean in his Po- l riosity to the people around the docks, ages themselves, what man amongst The French sailors of the Labrador Hs would undertake to swallow a fairly danced aionnd it in their on- Saddle-rock in the fullness of its per- tliusiasm. calling on those in the vicin- i fi-'ct development ? ity whom they guessed were Ameri . | It is said when Thackeray took cans to come and “ze zee tnmb.” j bis fi'^t half dozen 011 his arrival in this country, that lie declared him- selfas being possessed with the quality was a ludi- fueling of a man-eater. “I feel,” he On the said, “ as if I Iiad swallowed six raw- man of several babies.” The sentiroen of horror Brown, who lives 011 Pryor street, was requested by his wife to carry her Saratoga trunk from the fourth story to her bed-room on the ground floor. As he had just got hoiue_from a big day’s work, Brown remarked that he would go out and hire a stray darkey.. Mrs. Brown, who is studying some body’s work on household economy, j observed that it was throwing away | money, and that she was determined that site would see that no more filthv lucre was thrown away. Brown then dragged the trunk to j d° n ’t know of hut one, anti we 1 the head of the stairs and pulled offliis 1 l )I<?nt J of visiting cards, then* coat. Then he got down on the stairs ,)ced ot ' "''"‘ting the name. IIVJ V1VJV/ II , il‘1 IIUUI 1 IUUG •, __ bc comfortably accommoda- j of fastidiousness and plunge into the ted. This fragmentary part is made j ^‘lights °* molloscous bliss is refer- to work as lie ought to if he marries, • than any of the trades you could get I bronzed copper, about a sixteenth j Con * vers . it j on .* will be eternally moving about; i '"to, unless you have that snjjerior ! Mx i‘ l thickness. It is in fine, ( ( and I pity such a man's wife and him j talent for them which I have referred eV0ld - r °H<-‘d plates, riieted and von eat * ovet ^ screwed together in the firmest and most elaborate manner. The com pleted statue will be about 120 feet in height, from the crown of the head to ^he sole of the loot, the elevation of the pedestal being perhaps a third of the altitude of thc statue. It is understood that a staircase will he and I pity too, for that matter. Life, to he en-1 to » which you probably have not. jovable, has got to have something ! If y° u have this ability to make settled about it. j yourself master of any profession, Ii there is any class of beings I do , then go into it, heart and soul, hut pity from the bottom of my heart, it 1 don’t mistake the wish to be soinc- i> the class I have denominated. j thing in any particular vodflion, for “old bachelors.”^ the ability to be it. Don’t give up *Vhen a woman leimins single, she | the certain means of getting a livin" generally makes herself a home, after j for the ^ of lryin „ a „ experiment ! l ,lrtced " ithin thc ri S ht ar,n » b - v which a certain fashion, though it must | wh ich you may have the ability to make ' ’ necessarily be lacking in the chief | a 8ncceS8j but presumably have not. elements of what constitute a home. I l, ave known scores of boys who But thc “bachelor” is but little bet . forsook the farm for the city, and, tei than an outcast. He is a wan- ! hi nearly every instance, they regret- derer in the world. lie has made ! ted the step they took, and would shipwreck of his happiuess on the j have been glad to be back where i ocks ot single life. If there can be j they were, with the lesson their folly anything more desolate than the old \ had learned them to serve them as a age of such a man, I don’t know what warning. A farmer’s is the health- it is. Many years of observation j i es t life in the world, if he sees fit iia\e proved it to be a fact that nine : to make it so. There is no profession out ol every ten who have never mar- ; which can be made more attractive, 1 ied, have been those who “ knocked if he will read and study how to do about” ib.ri.ur. « l:-l ♦i™. i li3 work scientifically. Put the same amount of brains into it that thc other professions demaud, and it is second to none of them. It is the most 110- about” during the years in which they ought to have been laying the foun dation of a happy home for their old age. Young men, don’t he bache lors! When you conclude to live single until you get to be thirty or thirty-five, and “ knocked about ’ during that time, you are doing the very worst thing you ever did. You are putting oflf “the day of salvation,” and “sinning away the day of grace.’’ Seeing the world as the young man does who has to earn his living as he goes along, amounts t<S very little. What he does see, is nothing that hie work, and the young man who quits it because he has got the idea into his head that it is beneath him, will very likely see the time when he will wish he had been less hasty in giving up what he could do for some thing he finds, when too late, he cannot do well. And if he gets into a business he has no special adaptation for, he must always remain at the foot of the lad- and gentlemen, will 'ou eat any oysters before dinner i “Colonel Atwitt. With all iny heart. He was a bold inau that first eat an oyster.” Among the ancients the oyster was not only a popular guest at a feast, but thc delicate taste of an epicure was often judged by his discriminat ing palate in respect to the bivalve. In thc fourth satire of Juvenal thc reader may find the following praise ascent can be made to a balcony run • j of the gustatory gifts of one of the ning around the edge of the flambeau, j Roman trencher philosophers : The height of the complete arm is ; “None in my time more deeply understood thirty-five feet. Of course the Statue ! The bliss of eating, the substantial good, is upright. Thc left arm is bent so as ' ^' onc °. vsters w i'h so true a taste.” to enfold and hold lightly towards j The casual observer might be led the body a set of tablets upon which i 1° ^ ie conclusion that there is noth- the Declaration of Indepence is sup- j ' n S sentimental about an oyster, posed to be inscribed. A tunic foils I although in popular language it is over a peplnm from the shoulders lo j sa ' d *° have a heart. The absence the feet. The head is surrounded by J orbs, that, in the language* of a diadem, from which projects a cir-! Bvron, are scwesseutial to thc ten- clet of prongs, that catch the sun’s 1 der passion, rays and construct a brilliant nimbus ! looked Iove toc . ves whieli spake of glory out of them. The folds of l T ° Pl " 1 ' e • , ° J Is an excuse for this error, the outer garment arc so arranged that the edges fold diagotially across the figure. Its estimated cost is 1(125,000, half of which has already been subscribed. Both pedestal and statue will be completed in two years from now, and it will be the joint enterprise of France and America. Along with the fragment already re ceived and the portion on exhibition at Philadelphia, the right arm is sup posed to be complete. Always bound Your tailor’s bill. to follow suit—- Bui Sheridan maintains that “ an .oyster may be crossed in loveand as everything that Richard Brinsley said is like wine that grows better as it grows older, who will contradict the theory resulting from his position, namely, that the oyster is easy of di gestion because it is of an amiable nature, and when swallowed alive makes the best of the situation, and rests in its receptacle as peacefully as Jonah did the whale, where he was discovered playing “ Come Rest in this Bosom.” [ Very neat and dcga.u art coilars that vou can now w"] # * , ' a picture of George IVasiii#^ each corner, -'larthai* be behind sewing «.m tin- Exchanges all say, “ Look counterfeit half dollar coim 19G3, 1875 and 1870. It’s th 0 kind we are looking oat f r, without much success citLt-r. A belated citizen, from wl, policeman was trying to rtsn lamp-post a few montiiitr* a?’, lently resisted the endeavor, <b. ing: “ Lem me ’lone; "I'm li th’ fort.’’ Thackeray tells us to take a bit of paper, and make a list < gentlemen whom we knoif and tilted the trunk. The bottom was considerably shelter than he imagined, for it went down a half dozen steps with wonderful speed. There it stop ped. All Brown’s coaxing and urging didn’t mrve it. Then the extempore baggage-smasher concluded ho would get up behind the trunk and see what was the matter. Just as he had got his hand so far in the handle that he couldn’t get it out, the trunk started on a tour down stairs like a locomotive broken loose, with old Brown as ten der. The first thing struck was Mrs. B.’s favorite poodle, who was so aston ished that a bit of blue ribbon and a dress of his snowy wool with a dim hint of a smothered yelp hanging to it, was all that was left of him. The next thing that wild unchecked baggage en countered was B.’s nia-in-lcvv, who had just got in from Stone Mountain with her usual bundle of quilt-scraps and sassafras root. It only took the south west end of that rampant Saratoga to knock the spots out of the old lady and grind her sassafras root into tooth- powder. Mrs. Brown heard the racket, aud arrived at the head of the stairs in time to see the villainous Saratoga drop com placently on the ground floor with the astonished Brown a-straddle of the wrong side, and her new fall bonnet and other womanly paraphernalia ly-. ing in anything but nicely arranged order upon the stairs. She was four weeks convincing her ma that it wasn’t an earthquake, and that the world hadn’t come to an end, but it will be until Christmas before she ceases to lecture Brown on his carelessness. As for Brown, he wants to match that trunk against Goldsmith Maid for a mile heat. The latest recipe for true eloqu was given by a minister i lfe J/ tha’s Vineyard Baptist camp him yesterday. .Here it is: “Getts self chuck full of thc subject, k out the bung, and let nature «| A pair of slippers—a coup eels. A man of steaily habits man who always wears the clothes. Bills of exchange—I” kisses. See-fhre-ing men—ni' conductors. “ Beggars shouldn’t be die*'*' as the man remarked when a ti* who accosted him for tobacco, gi ed because he offered him p’r-i stead of fine cnt. “ A girl died in Vermont ti day from poison in the colored sW ings which she had been in the in 1 of wearing.” This shouU 11 All Alive.— On the base-ball grounds yesterday, says the Burling-, ton Jlawkeye, a red-hot ball struck the batter just where his mother used to feel for him with her slipper, and the umpire shouted “dead ball.” “Dead ball!” retorted the striker struck, “ if there’s a live ball on the grounds, that’s it.” lesson to girls not to pull th® w< ed stockings on with their tc;4 “Peter, don’t yoo enjoy 4 tronoinical phenomena these < ings?” said a well-to-do citizi* siding iu West Harrisburg. 10 colored employe, the other ^ “Clare to goodness, I rn'cr 1 ’em ; mushmelon’s my fhvori« llt “ Percy, this parting s'ers ■ it’s mighty hard.” “Oh, if* 16 worse than hard, Plantas®^' hitter, it’s bitter.” “Have }" last request to make?" f said Percy, the tears coming 1 his eyes, “ give me a chew'd' 1 co. 1 tlfl* Song-writtcrs have a gooo say about the “ okl sch<xv ^ but are very careful not 10 the fact that a rabbit] tr** have pn’.’e 1 them away fro 1 '' old structure at race-ho r '^^ during any period of tboir a ttl Don Carlos bathes ever.' > Newport, where thc „ him disporting in the surf, sider the muscular deveoP’^ his legs as superior even W ^, Weston’s'. They attribute' ^ exercise he took in 'gett' n ? Spain.