We don't care how
attractive the girls are, or how enterprising a boy he is, or how
expansive or far-reaching a mind he has, he cannot do justice to the
subject if he has two girls. There will be a certain clashing of interests
that no young boy in his goslinghood, as most boys are when they take two
girls to a picnic, has the diplomacy to prevent. Now, this may seem a
trifling thing to write about and for a great pious paper to publish, but
there is more at the bottom of it than is generally believed. If we start
the youth of the land out right in the first place they are all right, but
if they start out by taking two girls to a picnic, their whole lives are
liable to become acidulated, and they will grow up hating themselves. If a
young man is good natured and tries to do the fair thing, and a picnic is
got up, and the rest of the boys are liable to play it on him. There is
always some old back number of a girl who has no fellow, who wants to go,
and the boys, after they all get girls and buggies engaged, will canvass
among themselves to see who shall take this extra girl, and it always
falls to the good-natured young man. He says of course there is
room for three in the buggy. Sometimes he thinks may be this old girl can
be utilized to drive the horse, and then he can converse with his own
sweet girl with both hands, but in such a moment as ye think not, he finds
out that the extra girl is afraid of horses, dare not drive, and really
requires some holding to keep her nerves quiet.
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