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Show GIVE THEM A CHANCE. Rich Girls Oppressed Willi Wealth Should Have Special Consideration. My cousin Anthony has been in to tell me of his betrothal of his son Ajax to a young woman of exceptionally voluminous vol-uminous financial prospects. My cousin is not himself a man of large means, and his children's fortunes are still to be made. Nevertheless it was not without with-out an air of deprecation and symptoms of uneasiness that he told me what Ajax had done. But, I said, seeing Anthony growing solemn, somebody must marry the rich girls. There might be enough rioh young men to pair off with them if all the rich bachelors were available, but as long as a large percentage of tho rich bachelors insist on marrying poor girls there is no choice but for some rich girls to marry poor men or none. And, after all, if a girl is truly a nice girl, it would be a shame to avoid her because of her fortune. for-tune. When I was young, I told him, 1 had really loved a girl, and she had loved me, and had she been of age or an orphan I would have married her if she had owned all New York between Canal street and Central park. Dreadful a it would have been to be burdened with such a load, I would have felt that a true affection might make it tolerable. I think I was a comfort to Cousin Anthony. An-thony. He went away looking a good deal less dejected than when he came in. What a happiness it is, to be sure, when one gets a cbanco to benefit a fellow fel-low creature's spirits by changing his point of view I Scribner's. |