Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1868-02-13
GENERAL INTELLIGENCE
Marriages IN Franee.


Charivari has prepared certain
catechism for the use OF persons desir-
GUS of taking the degree of Baccalau-
reate in matrimony. The examination
ia conducted as follows: The future
bridegroom is first questioned, sepa'
rately:
Examiner. am about to interro-
gate you on your special aptitude for
marriage. You appear already arrived
at a certain age?"
The BridsgroOm-elect-I am forty
eight years old"
Sand the fiancee?"
"She is seventeen"
''Thirty years difference. Well, that
is not in the programme. 1t is your
lookout. Why are You going to
marry?"
"Monsieur, l do not well know my,
self. But am all alone, bachelor.
1 am rather bored. My position obliges
me to maintain certain rank in the
world. l must keep house. In short,
one must wind up and settle down at
some time"
1.-THE future is in the hands of none.
II You leave children you expose them
to the chance Of becoming orphans be-
fore they are fairly launched in their
careers.
'.Ah yes-the children. But am in
hopes not to have many"
''Do you love your wife, and are you
beloved by her?"
''She is a young person very well
brought up, and belonging to an ex.
cellent family. Her dot is most advan-
tageous, and she has, moreover, expec-
tations. There is nothing to prevent
my being very happy with her. / my
self am in good business.
81 see that you unite all the aptitude
desirable for your new condition. |
accord you the conjugal diploma, with
the privileges thereto attached"
Examination Of Bride-eiect.-''You
come, Mademoiselle, as an aspirant for
the baccalaureate of marTisgeP"
By.ide.eIect. Eyes, sir"
'YOu feel yourself possessed of the
qualities necessary in wife and moth
or of family?"
"Yes, sir"
Il congratulate you. What in for
mer times was q duty, has to-day be-
come an evidence of herOism. Then
you have the courage to bring up your
children ?"
"Yes, sir; my mother has told me
that if / had any, she will find me an
excellent nurse from Normandy"
''Ah, very good You will then have
a little more leisure to attend to the
affairs nj your house" F"
II do not understand housekeeping,
but my mother will choose for me Il
good cook and o femme de chGnabre."
"That is q question of expense
merely, l do not insist upon it? But
when your children are old enough to
be educated?"
'1f it is q boy, he will be put to
school; if girl, she will enter pen
siOa."
. without doubt you have much af-
fection for your husbands"
"I know nothing about it yet, but
my father assures me that / shall love
him very much. Beside, l shall have
nothing else to do"
''And why are you going to marry"
"Because ! am not married"
"That is one reason. Have You any
others?"
pardon, monsieur, ] am very anx
ious to be married, in order to have
reception day, TO see my friends, to go
out alone, to go to the theater and to
balls"
"It is not necessary to be married to
90 to theateTs and to balls"
II cannot always go when want to,
and at the theater there are often pieces
that my parents will not allow me
to see."
"But with these ideas / do not see
how you can be either good house.
keeper or mother of family"
"Of course / cannot pass all my
youth in bringing up children and fill
ing the cupboard with linen, while my
husband is at his business or his club.
l must try to amuse myself a little"
"Well, 1 have Just been talking with
your future husband, and 1 find that
you two have absolutely the same
IDEAS am delighted with such evil
dences Of cOngeniality. l think you
are made for each other, and will un-
derstand one another admirably. Here
is your diploma. You are evidently a
young person, much too reasonable to
annoy your family by making mar
riage disinclinatory."