Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-03-21

maid. Think how awful that would
have been!
WANTED SOMEBODY TO PAY HER BILLS
Number Four married because she
wanted somebody to pay her bills.
Her husband married for precisely the
same reason, so they are both Of them
repenting at leisure.
NOT GOING TO BE LEFT BEHIND.
Number Five married because Fanny
| White had nice new husband, and
she wasn't going to be left behind
Pity if she couldn't get married as
we'll as other folks
MARRYING FOR MONEY.
Number Six married because she
was poor, and wanted riches. Poor
child she never counted on all the
other things that were inseparable
from those coveted riches.
SHE LIKED TO TRAVEL.
Number Seven married because she
thought she should like to travel. But
Mr.. Number Seven changed his mind
afterward, and all the travelling she
has done has been between the well alad
back-kitchen door.
MARRYING OUT OF SPITE.
Number Eight married out of spite,
because her first love had taken to HIM
self second love. This piece of re-
taliation might have done her good at
one time, but, in the long run, Num-
Der Eight found it did not pay.
WANTED SYMPATHY.
Number Nine married because she
had read novels and wanted sympa-
thy" Sympathy is fine thing, but it
cools down at rapid rate if the do
nestle kettle is not kept boiling, and
the domestic turkey is under done.
Novels and housekeeping don't run
we'll together in harness, to use sport
ing pharse, and Number Mines supply
of sympathy don't hold out very long.
MARRYING FOR LOVE.
Number Ten married because she
| loved her husband with all her heart
and with all her soul. And she loves
him still, and will probably always con-
tinue to love him, and is the happiest
wife IN the world-so she says.
We have the right motive at last
one which, when sanctified by desire
and a resolution to improve and
elevate each other, and to live true and
holy lives before God, can not fail to
cali down the blessings of heaven. But
sad is the fate of those who marry
from wrong motives-to escape their
share of LIES work, or to get something
for which they have nothing to give in
return.
MARRYING FOR MONEY.
Prominent among the wrong motives
for marrying is the desire for wealth,
or for the luxuries, the privileges, and
the ease which wealth is supposed to
insure. Wealth is a good thing in it
self, and, when rightly used, may be
made source of happiness to its pos
SCISSOR, and of great benefit to the world
at large; but as the leading motive for
forming a matrimonial alliance, it al
most always proves a snare and curse;
and those who succeed in making a
pecuniarily "good MATCH" generally
get misery as we'll as money-more of
the former than of the latter-and
learn, too late, that cupidity is q more
dangerous foe to peace of mind than
even Cupid himself. Scion abolished
the giving of portions with young
women in marriage, unless they were
only daughters, for he would not have
matrimony become a traffic; and when
one asked Themistocles what he
thought about marrying person with
out a fortune, he replied that he would
rather marry his daughter to man
without an estate, than to an estate
without g. man. Must we not admit
that these pagans of ancient Greece
were wiser than many 8 so-called
Christian parent, who is ready to sacri-
flee his daughter On the altar Of Nam
mon, and who gives little thought to
the man, provided the estate be Sc
cured? It has been satirically said that
Maidens, like moths, are ever caught with glare,
And Mammon wins his way, where seraphs
might despair.
But though woman, under the pres
ent system of unjust discrimination
between her and map in the distri-
button of the rewards of industry, is
more frequently necessitous, as well
as less qualified to struggle with adj
versity, and more confding in her ma
ture, and, therefore, under stronger
temptations to accept money in place
Of q heart, yet the stronger sex is
scarcely less addicted to mercenary
designs in marriage. Fortune-hunting
is not confined to one sex, but is pur-
sued with equal zest by both, each
eager for a "good match"-in other
words, d good bargain. But is it good
bargain, after all? You may have OBJ
tanned large pile Of gold, but is it
an adequate price for a free-born
spirit-for life of love and happi-
ness resigned, and made forever I'M
possible? Mrs. Child says: "I never
knew marriage for money that did
not end unhappily. Yet managing
mothers and heartless daughters are
constantly playing the same unlucky
game. I believe that men more fire.
quently marry for love than women,
because women think they shall never
have better chance, and dread to
be dependent. If [ may judge by
my own observation, marrying for d
home is a most tiresome way Of get
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