Middletown transcript., 1868-05-09
popular Gales.
THOUGHTS ABOUT MARRYING.
BY MARY Y. SPENCER.

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"And when are you and Kate going to
be married p
The speaker was one of two young men
smoking segdrs in private room.
IF you mean Kate Kelso, never. It's
all very we'll to dance with such a girl,
but no poor man would think Of marrying
her."
"Why not, FrankP She's handsome,
accomplished, in the very best set, dresses
exquisitely, and will have fortune when
Mr.. Kclso dies"
Look here, Charley, do you think I'm
fool? can't afford to marry Miss Kel-
so; and it is just because she is in the
fashionable set, dresses expensively, and
has expectations from her father. l am
only beginning to succeed at the bar. 1t
is a long time, as you know from your
own experience as a physician, before
large income can be earned in profession.
AS yet am not earning such an income.
Miss Kelso has been brought up luxuri-
ously. Her father keeps carriage, goes
to watering-place every summer, and en-
tertains constantly when at home. Kate
is so accustomed to the excitement of So
ciety, has been SO much admired and fat
tered, has had her every wish SO anticipa-
ted. that the prosaic life of wife, on
narrow income, would soon destroy any
little romance with which she might enter
the married state. Her very dresses, my
dear fellow, would eat up half my earn
ings." .ar. -.A. ,..e -
&c think you are too hard on her. Any
&c L. Al L
loves, will cheerfully submit to sacrifices
for his sake" eaat
So it is said, and so, in justice to the
sex, most Of them, at least, try to do. But
Charley. old fellow, you and l know, from
our own experience, that habit is stronger
than good resolutions. A man brought
up in luxury, can never live as cheaply,
if he gets poor, as the son of poor man.
Nor can woman either A fich mans
daughter is not the girl for q poor mans
wife. It isn't her fault it's her misfor-
tune.". L. ll4sio9aD
"But, you lose sight of the fact, that
Kate will inherit share of her fathers
property" re "' n
. Not at all. Mr., Kelso is only fifty,
hale and hearty. He will live. probably,
for twenty years yet. Not, till he dies,
can his daughter get a cent. Meantime
she wlll spend as muchsextra; every year,
as will represent, the, interest of the fortune
she will inherit. AT the end Of the twen-
ty years, yes! long before that, / should
be ruined, or else broken down in health,
in consequence Of being in, debt and over
worked" ltl4a4t .,.rr,ff,,,s .DI
"Well, that's true true. See I what vi 4 es sorape
Harry Smith has got into!
"Yes, He married che daughter of a
man said to be worth million. Old Mr., 1
Gary did not give her penny. She had
her wedding outfit, butt that was all. On
Harry's part, there was pethiag 70 support
her with, except what he made out Of his
business; and he was but young mer-
chant, with very. little realized wealth:
Sophy Gary was stylish and fond of ma
king dash. She had the reputation of
dressing better than any girl in her set
which meant that her wardrobe cost the
most. Harry took his wife to the CONT
mental Hotel, for even her husband had
sense enough to know he couldn't afford to
go to housekeeping I'M the only way in
which Sophy. would consent to go-that is,
with o house on Walnut street. furniture
from Paris, ball every winter, and all
that sort Of thing. Heaven knows what
hepaid for his. parlor and chamber, but it
was fabulous sum; or what would have
been thought SO in the days of your father
and mine. In the summer they went to
Saratoga-for Sophy wouldn't stoop to
country boarding There she had her po-
ny-phaton and dozen Paris dresses. In