The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1871-03-17
WHY MARRIED PERSONS LIVE
LONGEST.

DR.. Hall, in one of his excellent
"Health tracts" gives the following
reasons why marriage is favorable
to health:
Bachelors are always in a state OF
unrest they feel unsettled. If in
doors after supper, there is a sense
of solitariness, inducing a sadness,
not actual melancholy; with all their
depressing influences and many,
many hours in the course of the
year are spent in gloomy inactivity,
which is adverse to a good digestion
and vigorous and healthy circula-
ton. His own chamber or house
being so uninviting, the bachelor is
inclined to seek diversion outside, in
suppers with friends, in clubs which
are introductories to intemperance
and RIGHTEOUSNESS, or to those more
unblushing associations, which un-
der the cover of darkness, lead to
speedy ruin of health and morals;
and when these are gone, the way
downward to an untimely grave is
rapid and certain. On the other
hand, marriage lengthens mans
life, by its making home inviting;
by the softening influences which it
has upon the character and the affec-
tions; by the cultivation of all the
better feelings of our nature, and in
that proportion saving from vice and
crime. There can be no healthful
development Of the physical func-
tions of our nature without mar
riage it is necessary to the perfect
man, for Divinity has announced
that it was "not good for man to be
alone"
Marriage gives a happy and laud-
able object in life, the provision for
wife and children, their present COM
fort and future welfare, the enjoy
ment in witnessing their happiness,
and the daily and hourly and par
ticipation in affectionate interchange
of thought, and sentiment, and SYM
pathy; these are the considerations
which antagonize sorrow and Tighten
the burdens of life; thus strewing
flowers and casting sunshine all
along its pathway.
Voltaire said: "The more mar
ried men you have the fewer crimes
there will be. Marriage renders
man more virtuous and more wise.
An unmarried man is but half of
perfect being, and it requires the
other half to make things right and
it cannot be expected that in this
imperfect state he can keep the
straight path of rectitude any more
than a boat with one oar can keep
straight course. In nine cases out
of the ten, where married men be-
come drunkards, or when they COM
nit crimes against the peace of the
community, the foundation of these
acts was laid while in single state,
or where the wife is, as is sometimes
the case, an unsuitable MATCH
Marriage changes the current of a
mans feelings, and gives him GEN.
tire for his thoughts, his affections,
and his acts. Here is home for
the entire man, and the counsel, and
the affections, the example and the
interest of his 'better-half keep him
from cratic courses, and from fall
ing into a thousand temptations to
which he would otherwise be expos
ed. Therefore, the friend to mar
riagc is a friend to society, an6 to
his country"
Whatever may be said of Vol
taire's theology, his statement on the
marriage question is certainly cor
rect. Statistics prove that a large
majority of our criminals, State
prison convicts, etc., are unmarried.
Think of this, young men; and IT
you wish to escape all that is bad,
try to form a partnership with
good woman, and you will be Sc"
cure.