Litchfield enquirer., 1832-02-09
From C066ett's Adrice to Young Men. MARRIED LIFE.

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 l A bare glance at the thing shows that farmer, above all men living, can never carry on his affairs with profit without wife, or mother, or daughter, or some person. To be sure wife would cause some trouble, perhaps to this young man. 1 There may be the doctor and the nurse to gallop after at midnight; there might be, and there ought to be, if called for, little complaining of the late hours; but what are these, and all the other troubles that could attend married life, what are they, compared to the one single circumstance of the want of a wife at your bedside dur ing one single night of illness! A nurse wllatsis nurse to do for you? Will she do the things that wife vii! do? Will she watch your looks and motions and your half uttered wishes? Will she use the urgent persuasion so often necessary to save life in such cases? Will she by her acts convince you that it is not toll, but 8 delight, to break her rest for your sake In short, now it is that you find that what women themselves say is strictly true, namely, that without wives men are poor helpless mortals. s As to the expense, there is no compari- son between that of woman servant and a wife, in the house of farmer or trades man. The wages of the former is not the expense; it'is the want of common in- terest with you; and this you can obtain in no one but wife. But there are the children. I for my part firmly believe that farmer, married at twenty-five, and having ten children during the first ten years, would bc able to save more money during these years, than bachelor of the same age would be able to save, on the same farm, in like space of time, he keeping only one maid servant. One sin- gle fit of sickness of two months dura- ton, might sweep away more than all the children would cost in the whole ten years, to say nothing of the continual waste and pillage, and the idleness, going on from the first day of the ten years to the last.
 Besides, is the money all2 What life to lead No one to talk with without go- ing from home, or without getting some one to come to you; no friend to sit and l talk to; no pleasant evenings to pass!- Nobody to share with you your sorrows or your pleasures; no soul having common interest with you all around you taking care of themselves, and no care of you; no one to cheer you in moments Of de- pression; to say all in word, no one to love you, and no prospect of ever seeing any such one to the end of your days.- For, as to parents and brethren, if you have them, they have other and very dif- ferent cares and, however laudable your feelings as son and brother, those feelings | aro rfa a yory 1;froronf rho ra rfnP
 IL does very well in bantering songs to say that bachelors life is "devoid ct care" My observation tells me to the contrary, and reason eoncurs, in this re- gard, with experience. When he quits his home, he carries with him cares that are unknown to the married man. If, indeed, like the common soldier, he have merely 1 a lodging place, and a bundle of clothes given in charge to some one, he may Dc at his ease but, if he possesses any thing of a home, he is never sure of his safety; and this uncertainty is great enemy to cheerfulness and as to efficiency in life, how is the bachelor to equal the married :! In the ease of the farmer and tradesman, the latter have so clearly the advantage over the former, that one need hardly in- sist upon the point; but it is and must be the same in all situations in life. To pro- vide for wife and children is the greatest of all spurs to exertion. Many man nat urally prone to idleness has become active and industrious when he saw a family a. round him; many dull sluggard has be- come, if not bright man, at least bust ling man, when reused to exertion by his love. Indeed, if man will not exert himself for the sake of a wife and children, he can have no exertion in him; or he must be dead to all the dictates of nature. NATIVE STOCK AND IMPORTED STOCK.
 TheFe are in this vicinity some of the large imported breeds of cattle. much larg- CT than the ordinary breed, and they have been frequently exhibited at shows, and have been pronounced very fine, not so frequently the female as the male, and no committee would dare or think of any thing less than to encourage such an im- provement, apparent to all. A great im-l pulse has been created, and A. B. and c. have avaiIed themselves of their best means ofprocuring heifer, COW, or bull, at an extra.price. Among the number have been one: my first trial was in selecting a heifer from seven others of the same age,