Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1879-10-30
Can't Afford to Marry.

which is holy.
Can't Afford to Marry.
Girls, do you hear this2 Many good
men arc crying, "Can't afford to marry!''
Why? "Expensc of supporting wifo"
Why support wife? Might not wives bo
made self supporting, or partly SO? Isn't
there something wrong in this system which
makes matrimony dependent on mans
ability to pay oil the wifc's expenses? Is it
not filling tho land with old mails? Has
it not done so for the last half century,
Who marry most? What race? The pco-
plo who care nothing for keeping up style.
The forcign-5orn, whose women turn to
and tend the shop. The cultivated Amcri-
can is not the marrying man. lie likes the
goods on exhibition but they're too costly.
for every day wear. Hence, oft they
remain on tho counter until shop~worn.
This is crying evil. Our best men arc
not marrying. Because SO many of our
gir.s arc saying, "You must take me for
better, for worse, to feed me, to clothe me,
to house me, TO warm me, to keep me clad
in fashion. to give me house proporionate
to my style, to keep me in pin money, and
will coudesoend to live with you, and take
your money and do nothing to earn more,
and to lament if things 90 wrong, that
didn't marry better, and you must regard it
as great favor on my part" The man
wants you pretty badly, but it's too heavy
contract. Things must be re arranged SO
that you can carry more of your end Of tho
log.
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INTERRUpTIoNs.-O of the most an
noying things that can happen to refined
mpu or woman is to have their conversation
constantly interrupted. A man or woman
who has anything to say that is worth say
ing, desires to say it in his or her own way;
and those who have broius to appreciate
it will be equally dcsirous of hearing it
without interruption. Yet it is q common
thing for parlor conversation to partake
moro of the nature of Tower of Babel
than conversation among rational beings,
who arc supposed to know and appreciate
what each other say. One begins to relate
an incident, and before he has flushed two
sentences, somo parrot in fine clothes chimes
in with her scnselcss gabblc, breaking the
thread of discourse, and compelling the
narrator to begin again, or abandon the
attempt to instruct or entertain. This is
the grossest impolitencss; nevertheless il is
as common an occurrence ns conversation
itself. 1t is not too much to say that nine
out of ten people who indulge this habit
are not capable Of carrying on conversation
on any useful topic, and indulge in these
breaches of etiquette by way of recovering
their retreat aud hiding their ignorance.
Here is promised field Of social reform.
DO NOT Gossip.-That person is to be
pitied--for what ho laoEs by nature or has
missed in experience can sec the
course Of true love without in his heart
giving the lovers his gladdcst bcncdic.ion.
But no one can give better proof of
vulgar taste than by making tho love affairs
of other people the subject of fippant or
familiar talk, especially in their presence
Filtration that has no heart in it, and pup
pyish love- making that has no head in it,
are entitled to no spccia! consideration
but any true attraction between a young
man and young woman 80 touches the holi.-
est experience of life, that mono but rude
hands will tear tho vail away from it, or
drag it from it's privacy into giggling gossip.
Wo nbominatc the gushing people who wear
their hearts on their sleeves, but we too
often seem too think it quito
tho thing to lay hold of the sen
sensitive friendship that VIC see blossom
ing into love, and toss it up in conversation,
and joke about it, as if it were just as fit a
target foc the town talk as Il cattle trade, or
a concert, or a lawsuit. Such treatment of
love affairs tend to drive them out of the
wholesome sunlight of family and ncighborly
life into all sorts of hiding places that are
not good for them.
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