Weekly Trinity journal., 1875-12-11
NUMBERED.
PREFERENCEs N MARRIAGE.

As to physical preferences, I confess
that have felt sufficient interest in the
subject to ask score of short men the
kind of stature they most admired in
women, when they made the following
replica Two for medium size two for
small thitteen for tall and three for
very tall. But, rs may be observed,
twenty is hardly sufficient number on
which to base a theory still il is enough
to Indicate that there are probabilities in
favor OF it, and in the absence of more
extended tests | am inclined to believe
that whero there are sixteen for and only
tour against, the small man prefers the
large woman.
/ In such II matter the rough sex is more
out>poken. Indeed, tits a common topic
among men to give a description OF the
woman they admire, while the modcs.y
which belongs to women usually keeps
them from entering into details after the
masculine manner. ltis only in moments
OF corner expansion that the woman con-
Gdes to friend that she has marked
| preference, in which case she is moro
enthusiastic in her admiration than the
man, and invests her type with tho
attributes Of heroism.
II the affairs of civilized life permitted
selection, unbiased by any other consid-
Grafton than that of natural attraction,
guided as i. would be by human intelli-
gence, the race would, Of course, reach
II degree of perfection which it is lhr from
possessing at present. Genius and learn
ing would walk hand in hund with tho
| Nenus Of Milo and tho Apollo of Bclvi-
dero. In this ago the obstncles to such
race amelioration appear to bo gco,cr
than ever; for the most important CON
sideWtions now entertained in the union
OF man and woman have but little to do
with their mental, moral and physical
! Improvement.
Within the last few years the marriages
in the lower classes have become fewer,
and in the upper comparatively rare,
owing to the depression in business and
the oNpeusiveness of housekeeping. Tho
man would like to be married, but ho
can not see his way financially, and is
obliged to restrain his matrimonial ten
denotes. The imprudcnt or much loving
man docs it, and the chances arc two to
ono that no gets into difficulty. Tho
general nbstoutiou in the way OF marriage
naturally ha. II corrupting influence, tor
mau's passions are strong and the flesh
is weak. Attractions and forces bring
the man and woman together in spite Of
thcretrom not necessary to describe. Ia
well regulated society marriage should
be- within easy reach Of those who want
to marry that is, the wants Of the couple
should be easily supplied in the money
they possess or ia the work which they
can perform with their own heads and
hands. II thcy have neither capital nor
capacity for work. the union sanctioned
by law is denied them. In this cuse tho
passive nature of woman may contain
itself within the bounds Of we'll ordered
life in accordance with the principles she
has been taught. The positive nature of
the man is not SO easily cu~bed and held
in suhjcction. and it asserts itsalr in II
way that ionds to increase tho number Of
that body Of dissolute women which
marches close in tho rear of every ciyili-
zation. This lawless legion, in word,
grows in the Same ratio as the number Of
marriages decrease, and recruit. are being
constantly added to it through love,
misery, and the passions Of men without
marital tics GdidrV.