Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1848-10-26
MISCELL A n EOUS.
From the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.
EARLY MARRIAGES.

From the Phlladelpnla Evening bulletin.
EARLY MARRIAGES.
We are the friends, the decided friends of
early marriages. But, in saying this, we do
not mean to recommend marriages without
means, or between persons of immature age.
or where there is too vast difference in So
cial position. Generally, in this country q
woman at twenty and man at twenty-three
or twenty-five ought TO marry, if partner
of The proper kind can be found, aud there
is sufficient income between the two for
pose woman also, is happier and better
for an early marriage. The heart wants
something 10 love, the quiet pleasures of
domestic life conduces also most to health,
to comfort, and TO The proper developments
of the moral affections. An unmarried man
AN old bachelor, according 10 the popular
parlance - grows of necessity more and
more selfish with every year; while the
married man has his nature disciplined and
improved by the duties. cares, sacrifices, and
felicity of connubial life. There are excep-
lions of course TO This rule, for there are
grabbed Benedic,s, as we'll as happy old
bachelors; but the mass are as we describe
them. Our most charitable, our most i'll
fuenlial, and our happies, men are the mar
that the married ladies are in the same cate
CORY.
To Joy felicity, or even content in we'd
ded life, it is necessary that the union should
be one of affection. We have no particular
regard for what is called ''puppy" love-the
romantic attachment of masses of thirteen
and boys entering college-but the affection
of few years later, and which is usually
grounded on esteem, is thing mol to be
despised.. We are firm believers in what
we call magnetism in love. man may
meet thousand women, all charming, SEN
sible and even good looking, and may fall
in love with neither; but, all at once, he is
introduced 10 one whom he loses his heart.
though the world in general, and sometimes
even his friends cannot see in what she ex-
GELS the others. And, perhaps, she does
from another star in glory; )" and so one
woman varies from another, without being,
perhaps, superior in the abstract. We ac
knowledge the existence of affinties be-
tween men-why, moi, then, between the
sexes? 1t is our way, at least, of account
ing for the subtle thing called love. Such
unions are generally happy. Marriages of
convenience. or marriages managed by O.
theirs, in two cases out Of three produces
positive misery in the end. The welded
life has its trials and it requires mutual af
feclion to endure and conquer them.
We do not advise marriages wi,hou,
means. We have no patience when fool
ish girl runs off with her music teacher, her
fathers coachman, or some stage struck
youngster. To live in comfortable house
is very dif1eren. thing from living in gar
ret, or three-slory back room, and they
who venture on the experiment for the sake
OF an Italian whiskerando will discover this
to their cost. But on the other hand, wealth'
is not necessary to happiness share of
''the fruits of the earth'' is all we really
want. As general rule young people
should not expect to have as large houses
or as fine furniture as their parents. 1t is
best to begin the world moderately ia
young man has an established business,
whether he makes one thousand or ten thou
sand year. let him &c. married. He will
find his JOY heightened and his cares eased
by the society Of suitable wife, and, if he
does not commit the error Of being too ex-
travagant, will never regret the step. OF
course, people with small incomes must be
economical at times. 1t will not answer to
spend all that is made, for rainy day is
sure to come sooner or later, when, if there
have been no savings, there must be distress.
Every married man, however pinched his
means, ought to lay by something every
year. Moreover, to do SO is easier than peo-
pie think. ALI depends on habit. We know
,hose who, on salaries of from seven hun
dred to thousand dollars a wear, annually
save one, two or three hundred dollars, while
others, with incomes ten times greater, are
always in debt.
On hearing of the indignities offered the
Turks by the rowdies on Sunday last, Brown
vehemently remarkably is pity there
had not been muscle-men enough among
them to pitch the scoundrels into the dock -