National Republican., 1877-11-15
Happy Mlxcs.


Happy wivc..
A nonsensical item, written. Of course, by
man. has been going the rounds Of tho press
relative to matrimony. II is only n bit Of dis.
interested advice, addressed to bachelors, who
are about to pcrpetrlte this desperate venture,
that they be sure and select happy women"
for their wives but unfortunately the writer
thereof neglected to add any receipt for keep.
ing the better halves In that state Of besti-
tude. The witty correspondent Of Philadel.
phia paper comments upon 1t In this wise I:
There is always great deal good advice float
ing around the world for those who are In need
Of 1t. The difficulty Ia 10 bring the advice and
the needing person together ut the proper mo-
ment that the ono may take hold on the other
In way that will do the most good. Probs-
bly, few are 40 much In need Of good counsel 10
the man who Is about selecting q wife, and
large number are doing this all the time. For
the benefit Of this ambitious aud hopeful claA
some philanthropist has set ahoat several eK-
cellont suggestions about seeking women who
are happy In preference to those who have
only beauty or talent or style. The complete
soundness Of this advice may be understood
from the philosophical summary that the
sweetest wives sre those who possess the magic
secret Of being happy under
ANY AND EVERY CIRCUMSTANCE
This ought to dispose Of the matter, but We
fear 1t doesn't. 1t Ia necessary to draw upon
the imagination for . woman who can be happy
under all circumstances. There have been
such In novels and In poetry, and once In q
while . mans secOnd wife will gain great
deal of information about his first wife having
been Of that kind, but we do not sec any Of
them in real life these days; those that We
hear of are all dead. A man may marry .
happy woman; 1t Is easy, indeed, to do that.
because nearly every woman has the genuine
good sense to be happy at marriage, and shs
haa n Ha a ya Urtp nrf af iisa thut aha rvtlI
always remain the same But she will not be-
| cause no really human woman ever has beon,
and In six cases out Of twelve she will have
good cry" and threaten to 20 home to her
mother before the honeymoon is fairly over.
When she was thinking how happy she would
bo she never contemplated the possibility Of Q
| husband coming home a. cross as bear and
bouncing into bed without speaking to her;
| nor Of the long evenings whom he wouldnt
| come at all ; nor his bringing friends home to
dinner without note of warning or prepara-
ton, and "loOking daggers' because II WAS
poor nor Of his awful profanity over 30 tri-
fling matter rs the gas bill or her new fall
bonnet. No. She had never the slightest idcs.
| in fact, that there could be
ANYTHING BUT HAPPINESS
| In married life aud she had determined not
only to enjoy her married felicity, but to dis
| tribute II abuudantly to those about her. and
II Is not often her fault If she doesn't succeed"
! A happy wife is worth more to any man than
| . fortune In gold, silver, bonds or stocks; but
the men who understand cheerful wives are
| comparatively rare, and rarer still are those
who care ~ much for them as they do for
"flthy lucre." II requires q constant effort to
| so possess property Us tO be secure In Its value
| In the midst of constant commercial changes.
The cheerfuncss, the happy, hopeful charac-
ter, which every true woman displays at the
outset of married life, Is less easily lost than .
| Inrtuua. II renuirea hut a ANAL shu re nj
the husbands attention, and yet II infre-
quently receives even that. 1t is impossible
| TO go through life with never Q shadow
across the pathway, but there is nothing dan
gerous In q sorrow that Is not nursed or en-
couraged. He who cannot turn from the pur-
suing shadows and threatening clouds Of busi-
ness-life, to . heart-weariug, health-giving
| cheerfulness ut home, may In most cases count
his human nature-so to spesk-ss 4 failure;
| he Is doubly wretched, indeed, for he doubtless
drspes his home with black clouds and drives
out, not only from his own heart, but fron
Others, those sunbesms Of happiness that hs
should have been aiding 70 gild. Advising
the man in search Of wife 70 select - happy
woman" Is good suggestion on one side, buh
II may Is well be accompanied By little a.
vios to the young woman
IN SEARCH OF HUSBAND
I-and alas there IL always . tremendous null
titude engaged In that risky busipess-to b.
ware Of tho husband who doesn't know enough
about cheerfulness 10 understand its value In
daily life. Such . man would improve ths
Ant opportunity 10 grind the cheerfulness Out
Of his home, 10 scare the sunbeams Int
shadows-and then wonder what In the wsrld
was the mstterI A husband Of that species 81
geaas homo would be decidedly worse than noRs
at all, and II you must have one, 90 hnd some.
body else-somebody who will give yoa Il
least the ghost Of chance to be happy-oa
| washing daya and ALTAR int thu hum n :
realities Of actual life beyond the honsynesa.