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Show B GIVE THEM A CHANCE. Bj ftleh Gfrla Oppressed Willi Wealth Should H 9 Iliive Special Consideration. B -Mf cousin Anthony has been ip to B tell mo of his betrothal of his son Aja? Hj to a young woman of exceptionally vol- B ominous financial prospects. My cousis B k nt himself a man of large means, B sud his children's fortunes are still to B bo made. Nevertheless it was not with-, B out an air of deprecation and symptomi B of uneasiness that ho told me what A jaa B bad done. Bj But, I said, seeing Anthony growing HHj Eolomn, somebody must marry tho rich B girls. There might be enough rich young H men to pair off with them if ail the rich H bachelors wero available, but as long at B & large percentage of tho rich bachelor! H insist on marrying poor girls there ia no B choice bnt for some rich girls to marry H poor men or none. And, after all, if & B girl is truly a nice girl, it would be 8 H shame to avoid her because of her for- H tune. When I was young, I told him, 1 B had really loved a girl, and she had B! loved me. and had sho been of age or ar B orphan I woubl have married her if she H had owned all New York between Canal Hj fctxeet; and Central park. Dreadful as ii H would have been to be bnjdoned with H Buch a load, I would have talt that 0 H true affection might make it tolerable. Bj I think I was a comfort to Cousin An, H thony. Ho went away looking a gooc IB deal less dejected that, when ho cam IE in. What a hsppin&is it is, to be sum, IB when ono gets a chance to benefit a fol iB low creature's spirits by changing bh IB roins 3f vie'? 1 Scribner's. |