The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1873-09-12

! either III literature or IN society. Her
/ love and sympathy cheered him in his
] young and struggling days, when
| "All feverish and glowing
! He rushed up the rugged way painting to
fame"
! When success crowned his efforts the
/ praise and admiration of Bessie were
/ dearer TO the young poet than all 'tle nat
tery lavished upon him by the ioVehest Ia
| dies of FroIand; and, when misfortune
c,me which drove away his summer
friends she was ever by his side, bright
epino and encouraging the dcspondmg
poet.
The wife of Disraeli was Disraehs S best
and trucst friend Her influence fired his
/ latent ambition, and brought into active
use his finest talents. Sustained by her,
DisraeH abandoned the idle and aimless
! life of London dandy, and became a
! statesman and the leader of statesmen, as
Prime Minister Of Great Britain. His do
{ mostic life was most happy. From the
/ triumph of the senate and the pageantry
Of the court he turned with unaffected de-
/ light to his home-life and home-love. The
sweetest associations of his life all clus-
! tered around that home, where he always
found the truest sympathy and love.
/ Fully realizing the blessing of married
life, he has written: ''Whatever be the
/ lot Of man, however inferior, however Op-
pressed, if he ouly love and be loved, he
must strike a balance in favor of exist
cnce; for love can illumine the dark roof
of poverty, and tighten the fetter of the
slave
These few examples, which may be null
! tiplied indefinitely, are given to show that,
so far as fame is concerned, "a young man
married is not a man tLat's marr'd."
Now, to another and more practical view
of the matter How many young men
give as a reason for not marrying that
they can't afford it--that marriage is a
/ luxury only for the rich ? We know that
I the sordid forms of fashionable society
have cncirclcd this heavenly rose called
love with so many thorns that the opulent
alone can gather it with safety. We also
know that, in the gay world, as Lady
/ Modish observes in tue Careless Husband,
/ ''sincerity in love is as much out of fashion
as sweet snuff--nobody takes it now"
But what man of sense, what man who
! longs for love and a home, would think of
marrying n woman of fashion whose
mornings arc passed in bed over a sensa-
tional novel, whose afternoons are spent
on the street, and whose evenings are
/ danced away i'll the ballroom?
It is great and deplorable mistake to
/ suppose that only the rich can afford to
marry. Dining with Chjef-Justice Chase
in Washington, some one mentioned that
/ EIr. -- had Of late grown cynical and
! censOrious, because he was engaged and
! could not afford to marry. WcH do we re-
member the remark OF the Chief-Justice,
that ANY young man who can support
/ himself can support a wifc-that is if he is
wise enough to select the right sort of per-
SON" Mr.. Chase spoke from his own per-
sonal experience; for he had married when
he was young, poor, and unknown, and his
success began with his marriage. Take
any young man of average intelligence
and industry-a lawyer, clerk or Journal
ist-he makes enough to live comfortably
and 10 save, but lie is not willing to follow
Mir. Micawber's philosophy of happiness:
'Income, e10O year; expenses, 500 los.
happiness Income, 800 year; ex-
/ penses 600 1s.-misery." Which, i'll
plain English, means-make more than
you spend, and you will be happy; spend
more than you make and you will be mis-
cradle.
Our young lawyer, clerk, or journalist is
not satisfied to live comfortably; he must
live luxuriously. He must smoke the best
cigars, drink the choicest wine, wear the
I most fashionable clothes: lie must belong
to club, play billiards, go to the opera;
he must drive to the park when he can
i'd" i' "i+y' 'Is; he ''n''st sI,and his s,In,
mer holiday at Saratoga or Long Branch
in short, he must live as extrayagantly as
the idle sons of rich men with whom he as
sociates. To do this, he must necessarily
live beyond his means.
These are the young men who say they
cannot Gf0rd to marry. They can afford
to marry if they will give up expenses
which are always useless and often danger
Gus. Addison says with admirable truth
''All men are not equally qualified for get
ting money, but it is in the power of every
one alike to practise the virtue of thrift;
and l believe there are few persons who, if
they please to reject on their own past
lives, viii find that, had they saved all
those little sums which they have spent up-
necessarily, they might at present have
been masters of competent fortune"
Certainly, if young men will practise the
habit of saving :'those little sums which
are SO often unnecessarily spent,'' they
viii no longer have to complain that they
cannot afford to marry.
The laws of Sparta required man to
, marry when he became of age; if he did
not he was liable to prosecution. The
salutary effect of this was seen in the su-
perior morality of tie Spartans over the
J other people Of Greece. The morality of
. the people of Ireland is one of the bright