Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1886 — Getting to Be the Rule. [ARTICLE]

Getting to Be the Rule.

Do you notice that nowadays this is getting to be the rule? The rich are marrying the rich and the poor are making matches among the poor. The sudden increase of wealth and aping of .English rules of caste are frightening young men out of the old chivalrous spirit; when the humble fellow claimed the girl of his heart and defied the world to rob him of her. Do you think the girls are learning wisdom and won’t look at poor’men any more? That shows how little you know of femininity. "Where the heart is the brain is not, and girls ? are just as-big geese as ever in love matters. Of course there are some wise ones who coldly determine to . marry a.carriage, a maid, and thirty dresses a year; but I don’t like wise girls, don’t see any woods full of them anywhere, and would not wager a pound of French mixed that their wisdom, would stand much of a test if the right young man happened along and courted them with the force and ardor of a hurricane, as any rightminded girl likes to courted.— Clara Belle’e letter.