The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1879-11-18
LOVE VS. BREAD AND BUTTER

The Virginia Enserpri.e says, The
query. Why don't young mon get mar
ried il oil Aummery. They do ge.
married and 100 much for their own
and the girls good. /, is we'll enough
1t they marry wisely. and not too e.si-
ly. OF. in other words. without cnn.id-
ering what they are doing The aver
age young man will court . girl few
months, fill her dreams with imagina.
tions Of fancy. painted cottages and
love, ignore the -four barrel and po,a-
toes. aud she, poor, fattered. frowsy.
willing bird, hops into the cage ths. he
has builded for her in the clouds.
Then she awskes He fattered himself
that be had thought it all over and
weighed the consequences. He did
nothing of the kind. He va, not in q
M'ste OF mind TO think seriously OF
.. thing. Now he sees pinching and
seL starvation ahead on hi. week y
sala. and fevsrish re,tlessness grow
ing OF s'f the fact that that salary may
b cut t< ct any moment. He did not
weigh the, things q, oil. or, if he did,
his fancy 70. the girls pretty face or
admit it-his love for her. fell into the
other scale. aud the calculation side
kicked the beam. Something ails this
young man. Hs calls it love, but no
man can truly love . girl who would
run the risk Of subiecting her n life
OF haphazard existence. They call it
love. but it is only q mixture Of fancy
And tha vaarpipua nf ,.a,u,. >.h;ob
make them blind and foolish. No young
man with health. good spirits and in
an assured way of winning in life,
should with Othello. say: Il would not
my free, unhoused condition put into
circumspection aud confined. for the
seas WORTH" because such young men
shOnld take 10 their hearts for Lille some
fitting compan ion from the gentler sex;
but it is simply wild and foolish for
the unprepared young man to do It
Tho cynical youth 10 of the opinion that
young ladies show no disposition to
encourage . poor young man BY herself
making sacrifices. She 10 right. She
is . sensible girl who does not aid
young man to commit matrimonial sui
eide. A young man who saddles him
self with . wife before he can pay his
board bills promptly. COMMITS a very
foolish act. But such girls are as scarce
~ hens teeth. Most Of them will en-
courage this matrimonial msnia Half
of them. even could they lift the veil of
futurity aud see themselves frowsy.
slip slod and unloved wife in back
woods cabin, and that swarminy with
tow-hesded children. would encourage
the poor young man in his manla. One
trouble with the girls Is. they think be-
cause . young mau wears good clothes,
possibly diamond pin, patent leather
boots and switches . cane. that he has
plenty of money to support wife |,
takes . very small amount o: love on
her part to help her arithmetical pro-
2ression and give her exalted ideas of
things. She DOS not imagine that her
lover is living . so existence on a $40
salary. Whom they get along toward
orsr GO blossoms and white lace she may
ask him about his Income. but no great.
or mistake ever crspt into the me. hes
Of her soft brown hair than tha, he will
tell her the truth shout bis financial
affairs. He knows that if he did there
might be a shrinKage in her love. so he
keeps it to himself. She tells him no.
thing Of her prospects. So that both
cheat until the mask of the honeymoon
drops of, when there 10 sudden drop
III loves thermometer.