The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1873-07-04
Partner for Life.

In all business transactions men eonsuItther
pocket and best interests In matters Of love
they act on the same principle. Few men will
attempt to build house unless they have the
requisite funds for its completion and but very
few men Of good Judgment will have the hardi-
hood oil engaging in an uneven combat against
dollars and cents when it is recognized that
money is controlling power. So with love
few men will allow the frenzy of a momentary
love to influence them to rush impulsively in to
the harness of matrimony. unless they can see
then way clear While all this speaks of ra-
tional, considerable beings, yet it also speaks OF
a want of selfconfdencegn their ability to bat
tie with the stern realities of existence. The
romance Of courtship is as varying, fieeting and
uusatisfying, as that life has it sunshine and its
clouds. The great trouble with young men in
selecting a wife il not for want of due appre-
citation of the fair sex, but they lack the oour-
age and the will to endure the restraints and TO
contend against anticipated troubles. Life is
too short to waste in dallying with hope for a
better time and more favorable auspices. Hope
deferred maketh the heart of many betrothed
maiden sick. If you wait for the convenient
season of getting ready" you may never mar
nv. These thoughts are called up by an affair
between two lovers not many miles from Ma
rietta. A gay Lothario had, by recital OF his
feelings and by the nobeness of his nature, won
the love Of q fair Desdemonia, but depleted
pocket-boo SO dampened his ardor that he
postponed from time to time the consummation
Of the nuptials His discretion in one particu-
lar was sadly at fault; he spent most OF his
hard earned wages in Excepting up appear
ances" and he saved but little. Discouraged,
he at last determined to relieve the young lady
of the letters Of protracted engagement. He
went to her calmly and told her candidly that
he had been trying from time TO time to place
himselfin financial condition that would war
rant him in fulfilling his promise of marriage,
but he was Just as far from being able to do so
now. as lie was when he entered into the en-
gagement; that he had nothing but hundred
dollars and his clothes, but he had health and
good trade and under such circumstances, if
she was willing to marry him, well enough; If
not. then he would relieve her of the engage
nent. After he had made this open, frank
statement, she looked searchingly into his face
and said, "And is this the reason you have
postponed SO often our marriage" yes" he
replied "Then, she said, lit shall be SO no
loneer-we will get married. That evening
the clergyman performed the ceremony making
them legally one, as they had been in heart all
the while. @For better Or worse they assum-
ed their new sslatiops, and to-day that young
couple are III good circumstances, residing in
a comfortable home, well furnished. and they
are apparently as happy as mortals can be
where shege is rputnal reciprocity Of affection
and congeniality Of taste to control them. She
adapted herself to his circumstances; cast the
false pride Of an exacting fashionable society
aside, and with the pure prompting Of her no.
BILE. generous love. is proving that help meet"
which the term in its true Significance implies.