Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1871-03-03
MiscellanY,

WHY WOMEN WED.--Some close OBJ
server of our social relations, having
looked about among his married female
acouaintances, ventures to give the fol-
lowing list, with an attempt to indicate
the real reasons which influence too
many to marry;
MARRYING FOR AHoME.
Number One has married for home.
She got tired of working in factory, or
teaching school--she thought married
life ON earth was but moonlight walks,
buggy rides, new bonnets and nothing TO
do.
Well, she has got her home, whether
or not she is tired of the membranes,
this deponent saith not, inasmnch asthis
deponent does not positively know.
CONSULTING FAMILY INTERESTS.
Number Two married because she had
seven young sisters and papa with
narrow income. She consulted the in
terests of her family. Perhaps she would
better have consulted her own interests
by taking in light washing or going out
by the day to work.
SHE LIKED THE NAME OF MRS.
Number Three married because Mrs.
sounded so much better than Miss. She
was twenty whine years and eleven months
old, and another month would have
transformed her into regular old maid.
Think how awful that would have been
WANTED SOMEBODY TO PAY HER BILLS
Number Three married because she
wanted somebody to pay her bills. Her
husband married for precisely the same
reason, SO they are both lamenting at
leisure.
NOT GOING TO BE LEFT BEHIND.
Number Five married because Fanny
White had a nice new husband, and she
wasn't going to be left behind. Pity if
she couldn't get married as well as other
folks.
MAkR1lNG FOH MONEY.
Number Six married because she was
poor and wanted riches. She never
counted on all other things that were in
separable from those coveted riches.
SHE LIKES TO TRAVEL.
Number Seven married because she
thought she should like to travel. But
Mr.. Number Seven changed his mind af.
terward, and all the travelling she has
done has been between the well and the
back kitchen door.
MARRYING FOR SPITE.
Number Eight married out of spite,
because her first love had taken to him.
self second love This piece ofretalia-
ton might have done her good at the
time, but in the long run number Eight
found it did not pay.
WANTED SYMPATHY
Number Nine married because she had
read novels and wanted sympathy. Sym
patty is fine thing, but it cools down
at a rapid rate if the domestic kettle is
not kept boiling, and the domestic tur-
key is undone. Novels and house-keep-
ing don't run very well together in har-
ness, to use a sporting phrase, and Num-
Der Mines supply of sympathy didn't
hold out very long.
MARRYING FOR LOVE
Number Ten married because she low
ed her husband with all her hear. and all
her soul. And she loves him still, and
will probably continue to love him, and
is the happiest wife in the world-so she
says:
We have all the right motive at last
one which, when sanctifed by a desire
and resolution to improve and elevate
each other, and to live true and holy
lives before God, cannot fail to call down
the blessings Of Heaven. But sad is the
fate Of those who marry from wrong mo-
tives-to escape their share of life's work
or to get something for which they have
nothing to give in return.
A SWEET TRANsAorIoN.-Nathan