The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-05-15
TIE MODERN MARRIED MAN.

The Golden Age, In discussing the question
of marriage, asks, with some anxiety, "Why
does not the modern man marry ?" and then
proceeds to give number of reasons why so
many men In these times refrain from matri-
mony. The question fs frequently discussed
In the NeS York papers, and still more fire..
queutIy by the English press.
He marries Notwithstanding oil the advice the
newspapers give him on the subject. He mar
ries Just as the man of preceding generations
married. The institution Of marriage is not
by any means In state OF decay, but -four
.ishes as gaily and luxnriantly as ever 1t did.
II there be few men Of tremendous intellect
or extraordinary sentimenLalIty or hardheart-
Lincoln called the 'plain people" continue to
marry und give In marriage, just as manklna
are said 10 have done al the time Of The flood.
Nearly all men OF the proper age for
marriage In oil parts oil this country
are married, as any one can find out
by statistics or observation. II anybody
has any doubt on this point let him look
around. We venture 10 say he will flnd that
his landlord ls married, and that bis grocer,
butcher, baker, TAILOR, shoemaker, halter,
editor and duclor, are all married men. he
will find that nearly all hls acquaintauces, as
he counts them up, are married. He Will
find tnat nearly all the residences, poorer
and richer, iu all parts OF the city anu sub
urbs, are occupied py men who a-e married,
and who, mr recover, possess families oil re-
spectacle magnitude. II he gets at the feel
invs of the younger men OF his acquaintance
he will lind that almost every one vi them eX-
poets to get married, and If here and there
weak-minded one talks about remaining q
bachelor all his lite, he will flnd that q
few years is pretty certain TO work great
change in bis ideas on the subject. If he 60
out into the rural districts among the farm.
era, he will find that marriage Is all but uul-
ver.al, and he will see every reason TO be-
lIeve that the rising generation Is certain to
ceded It. In short, wherever he looks, We
venture to say, his observations Will have but
one result. They will convince h,m that the
"modern man" marrie5, and ihaL the looming
man" will also marry. We think It would be
worth while for those who are excited about
the mailer to ponder II in the way we have
suggested, for we feel sure that their alarm
about the prospects OF the human race and the
social slate would be quickly diminished.
There is not the slightest necessity, there.
fore, for anybody troubling himself about the
marriage of the modern man. who IL already
married, or of the proxlmate man, who, unless
all signs fail, will be properly married In due
season. The modern women may on extraVa-
CANT, or ialse-haired, or strong-minded, Or
weak-mind-d, yet all these things are 1nenec-
tual 10 prevent the modern man from marry.
Ing her.
There is In all large cities o small class of
men consisting principally of club-loungers,
Byronic poets, literary Bohemlans, misers,
philosophers and such like, who fail to do
their duty la the marriage business. We sup:
pose that newspaper writer's who are! afflicted
about the modern man not marrying must
have this class in their eye. But this class
is not q novelty In the world, lt existed
in ancient Athens and Rome, and In medic
val ConsIautlDople and Venice. just as 1t ex-
ists In modern Paris and London. IL Is nu.
merlcalIy small class, and socially an incon-
spquential one. In no part of the country does
1t amount to more than one or TWO per cent.
OF the population. 1t is absurd TO take such
O class rs the basis for mOrallzing on the con-
dillon of society, or the conduct OF the great
mass oil mankind.