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Show GIVE THEM A CHANCE. fclch Girls Oppressed With Wealth Should Have Special Consideration. JMy 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 cousi'fl 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 A jas had dona But, I said, seeing Anthony growing solemn, somebody must marry tho vicb girls. There might be enough rich young men to pair off with them if all the rich bachelors were available, but as long at & large percentage of the rich bachelors insist on marrying poor girls there ia 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 bo a 6hame 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 sho 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 as 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 An thony. He went away looking a good deal less dejected thai, when he came fn. What a happiness it is, to bo sure, when one cets a chance to benefit a fel low creature's spirits by chaagiug hi point of view 1-Scribner's. Strange stories are told of the Dotox who live among the moist, warm bamboo bam-boo woods to the south of Kaifa and Busa in Africa. Only 4 feet high, of a dark olivo color, savage and naked, they have no fire. They live only on ants, mice and serpents, diversified by a few roots and fruits. They let their nail grow long, like taions, tho better to dig for ant3 and tho more easily to tear in pieoes their favorite snakes. Tho Dokos used to be invaluable as slaves, and they were taken in largo numbers. Tho slave hunters used to hold up bright colored clothes as they came to the bamboo woods, where these human monkeys still live, and the poor Dokos could not resist re-sist tbe attractions offered by such superior su-perior people. They crowded round them and were taken in thousands. In slavery they were docile, attached, obedient, with few wants and excellent health. These queer people have one fault a love for ants, mice and serpents ser-pents and a speaking to Yer with their heads on the ground and their heels in the air. Yer is their idea of a superior power, to whom they talk in this comical com-ical manner when they are dispirited or angry or tired of ants and snakes and longing for uaknovn food. Popular Magazine. |