The North-Carolinian. [volume] (Fayetteville [N.C.]) 1839-1861, 1850-11-02
YES. GET MARRIED..
ADVICE BY DOW, JR.

Young man! If you have arrived at the
right point in life for it, let every other con
sideration give way to that of getting mar
red. Don't think Of doing any thing else.
Keep pokins about among the rubbish OF
the world till you have stirred up gem
worth possessing, in the shape OF a wife.
Never think of delaying the matter; for
you know that delays are dangerous. A
good wife is the most constant aud faithful
companion you can possibly have by your
side. lille performing the journey Of life
dog ISN'T q touch to her. She is of more
service, too, than you may at first imagine.
She can smooth your linen and your cares
for you-mend your trousers, and per-
chance your manners-sweeten your sour
moments as well as your tea and coffee for
you-rulc. perhaps. your shirt bosom.
but not your temper; and, instead of sew
ing the seeds of sorrow in your path, she
will sew buttons on your shirts, and plant
happiness instead of harrow teeth in your
bosom. Yes-and if YOU are too nfounu-
edly lazy or too proud to do such work
yourself, she will chop wood, and dig po-
tatoes for dinner; for her love for her hus-
band is such that it will do any thing to
please him-except receive company in her
every day clothes.
double distilled Levotcdness; and when
she hates, she hates on the high pressure
prnci pie. Her love is as deep as the
ocean, as strong as hempen halter, and
as immutable as the rock Of ages. She
won't change it, except in very strong
tit of jealousy and even then it fingers as
it 10th to part, like evening twilishts at
the windows of the west. Get married by
all means: All the excuses you can fish
up against doing the deed, amt worth a
spoonful of pidgeon's milk. Mark this
if, blest with health and employment, you
are not able to support a wife, depend up
on it, you are not capable of supporting
so much the more
need of fannexation; for, in union, as we'll as
in onion, there is strength. Get married,
| repeat, young men! Concentrate your
affections upon one object, and not distrib-
ute them crumb by crumb, among a host
OF Susans, Sarahs, Marys, Loranas, Oil
Was. Augustus, Betsies, Peggies and Dor
each scarcely enough to
n'bble at. Get married, and have some
body to cheer you as you journey through
this 'Iow vale of tears somebody to scour
up your whole life, and whatever linen you
possess. in some sort of Sunday go-to-meet-
ing order.
Young women! need not tell you to
look out for your husband for know that
you are fixing contrivances to catch one,
and are as naturally on the watch as cat
is for u mouse. But one word in your ear,
if you please. Don't bait your hook with
an artificial hy;ifyou do, the chances are
ten to one that you will catch gudgeon.
some silly fool of a fish that isn't worth
his weight in saw-dust. Array the inner
lady with the beautiful garments Of virtue,
truth. morality. and unsophistca-
ted love;and you will dispose of yourself
quicker, aud to much better advantage
than you would if you displayed all the
sew gaws: tlipperjss. fol deroIs, and id-
lie -dedees in the universe. Remember
hat it is an awful thing to live and die a
self manufactured old maid.
My hearers-get married while you are
young. and then when the trusts of age
shall fall and wither the flowers Of affec-
ion, the leaves Of connubiaI love will still
De green, aud perchance, joyous offspring
will surround and grace the parent tree,
ike ivy twini"g and adorins the time
cathed oak.