Delaware weekly Republican. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1841-188?, 1857-01-01
WAY LEAp YNAk Is a FAILuRE.

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Tho ssstistioisas Of Bsston report that Leap |
Yssr has bseu asssiure'' ia tho Modern Athens.
There have beeu twenty pes cert. less oimsr-
tiages this year thaa last. The fact "a by 10 |
means ona to ba joked over.
Funnily. however, the msdorn Athenisn |
statissicians ascribe 1t to the passions and
EXPENSES OF TIE recent kfesidsntial election.
They view wedlock from afsr. If they came
quite up to the Boston Hymenial altar they
would be in the way Of The explanation Of the
lsmeu.abls fact they publ b. That sh,ipc to
Love and Marriage is crushingly draped with
silks At FROM three dollars to fifteen dollars ?
yard Lid ia festooned with laces at prices to
cause lsck jaw to hear of-expensive jsmned
jewssy flashes through the meshes Of the point
d. Alencon at every part silver plate, paved
thick upon lea ace cf e.gsnteel residences,
| supportsthe altar = and millnsra' bills Tor every
purshasabla luxury and necessary. more ter
ribls than the bills VI vultnres. litter the base
u 1t AZ vetivs leaves 10 the Frost Spirit circle
the oak in autu EnR. What effect has this pro
tanauon of the shrine on Marriage on The
yosng men Of Boston, Sho would fain bring to
it their personal otferings3
Those ststisticiaas can see il aud hear it,
The earrent Of masculine manageable hu
manity acts right BY without stopping. Great
| signs, heaved from tbs bottom Of prudent but
hopeless hearts, are all that Ia given to Hy-
men. Young artists, young ariiEans, young
doctors. merchants. lawyers Of more youth
than elientage, yet all out Of debt and earning
comfortable and Honorable Subsistence for one
according to the scale Of 1s48, Eass by quickly
| alarmed by the evidences of the inexorable
conditions attacked 20 reputable marriage IN
sbess svil daysef competition In. social dis
play. #
Marriage Ia beeoming luxury to men in
the United States. The cost Of pro visions, the
wages OF labor, yhs rent Of dwellings. the cesi
/ OF necessaries and 81 luxures, added to tbs
unrelenting pressure upon people in respecta
BILE society TO dresa richly andfurnish showily.
makes the inevitable price Of atatnily far out
reach OF the salaries and incomes of most off the
Young. OF the effect on the morals aud char
acter ofa stale La which wedlook is prohibited
it ia Unnecessary to enlarge. By reading OF
by travel we ars familiar with 1t In Francs
. and Austria. Prudence and custom forbid
insrriage In The former country, where Their
E ~ not assuf ed income Sufficient to maintain
i's wants and social pretepsions. In The latte
(, the armed law holds asunder from tha rela
: tons Of husband and Wits couples who do NOT
possess property guarantees that their childre,
4 shall not become q burthen 70 the State II
. all ranks Of its society iaooms is the marriag
: cement Of lore.
. Marriage may as efsctually be prohibite
1 by tbs expenses of millinery ware and hous
furnishing, as BY police regulation. II thos
. tnodern Athenisn statisticians will stand Wit
: their note books beside their marriage alta
: for two years TO come, tAey wall have 10 recnr
n a steadily diminishing worship AZ che shine
+, 1t old maidhood be. as many say, an evil, th
4 penalty Of q general rspudlaton Of cotio
2 dress goods, and score of gingham, will b
paid iR every house where there are daugh
o ters, Does IL net behoove all mothera--al all geo
= mothers-to initiate. individually if not i
" concert, tho wise cosduct Of tho Reisic wome
Of Brussels Upper Ten.dosai"
a Their "Retrenchmcnt Society has bseu OF
"a gsnizea to make economy fashious bic. 1,
weekly meetings receivs reports of supe,flu
. Ties dispensed with, aud discuss the fessibIit
y Further ourtsilments IN household and person
al expenses. Iss members are motbsrs' an
these their lsbors are for the purpose of saviu
,s marriage 70 their grown up daughters, by M,
King Il practicable for those young ,nen wisol
i capital is disappointment to thsls indus I,
,s and Integrity.
10 Us for restora' ion Of ginsham and prios,
/, Is there nc deliveranee from the silken weE
4, evil which French Iosms. weays far us9
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