Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-12-28
MARRIAGE.
A Georgia Editors Lecture % CaIlow
Lovers.
rom the Rising Dawn GA. Gazette.

run the rising Dawn GA. Gazette
The sparkers are looked upon by parents gen.
orally as nuisance. ana often they are right
Nine-tenths of the sparkling is done by boys
who have not got their growth, and they look
so green that 1t is laughab!e for the old folks to
look at them. They haven't generally second
shirt, and they are no more qualified to marry
than steer is to preach. And yet marrying is
about the first thing they think of. "A green
boy without dollar. present or prospective,
sparkling girl regularly and talking about mar
rying, is spectacle Tor gods and men. He
should be reasoned with and if he will not Quit ii
till he is able to support a wife. and TO know
whom he loves, and the difference between love
and passion. he should be quarantined or put
In convent erected on purpose for such cases.
Nine-tenths of the unhappy marriages are the
result OF green human calves being allowed to
run at large in the society pastures without any
yOkeS on them. They marry and have children
before they do mustaches; they are fathers of
twins before they are proprietOrs of two pairs
OF trousers, and the little girls they marry are
old women before they are twenty years old.
Occasionally one of these gosling marriages
turns out all right. but it is clear case
OF luck. Ii there was a law against young
galOots sparkling and marrying before they have
all cut their teeth. we suppose the little cusses
would evade 1t in some way. but there
ought to be sentiment against it. 1t is time
enough for these bantams to think of finding a
pullet when they have raised money enough to
buy bundle of laths to build hen house. But
they see girl who looks cunning. and they are
afraid there is not going to be girls enough to go
around. and then they begin to get in their work
real spry; and before they are aware of the sane
'ity OF the marriage relations they are hitched
for life, and before they own a cook stove or
bedstead they have to get up in the night and go
after the DOCTOR frightened that they run them
selves out of breath and abuse the doctor because
he doesn't run too. 1t is about this time that a
young man learns that he is cOlossafuol and as
he flies around to heat water and bring in the
Datfl-tub and goes whOoping after his mother
or her mother, he turns pale around the gils.
his hair turns red in a single night. and ne
calls high heaven to witness that if he lives
till morning, which he has doubts about, he
will turn over a new leaf and never marry
again till he is older. And in the morning
the green-looking "father' is around before
drug store is Open with no collar on his
hair sticking out all over, his eyes bloodshot
and his frame nervous. waiting for the clerk
to open the door so that he can get some SAT
from to make tea. Less than year ago he
thought he was the greatest man that there ever
was anywhere but as he sits there in the house
that morning with his wedding coat rusty and
shiny. and his trousers frayed at the bottom,
and his coat patched at the elbow and the nurse
puts in his arm roll of flannel with baby hid
in it. he holds it as he would a banana and as
he looks at his girl wife he thinks there is not
provisions enough in the house to feed a canary.
lump comes into his throat and he SAYS to
himself that if he had it to do over he would
leave that little girl at home to grow I'D with
her mother and he would wait till he had sc to
buy flannel and $40 to pay doctor.
German Population and Emigration.
From the London Times, December g.
Considerable attention is being drawn by sta
tisticians to the great rate of increase both of
the population and emigration throughout Ger
a.
tween 1916 and 1864 from 10 $50 900 to 49, 26O OOO
while, up to 1875, inclusive, it had mounted up
to q. 10000 or 105 per cent in sixty years
time. From 1875 to 1880 the population of all
the German states has been increasing at about
525, 600 per annum. At the last census in De-
cember. $780, the number Of inhabitants was
1875 600, which. if maintained at the same
rate, would be 60. 0OG 600 in 1900 The increase.
as compared with that of France, is very
remarkable, the French population during the
last five years showing an increase Of only
600, while the increase of the German pop
ulatlOn during the same period was , 0GG. COO.
the birth-rate in the latter country being 391
per 100, whereas in France it is only 247
There is also this great difference between the
two, that in France the increase has been almost
entirely in the large towns, whereas in Germany
the Increase is general throughout the country
as well as the towns. The number Of emigrants
that have left Germany during the last sixty
years is over $500 600, Of whom the greater part
have taken their departure during the last
thirty years, the United States having absorbed
in 1881 no less than 24S.323. Dr. Frederick
Kappe estimates the amount taken away by
each emigrant not less than $50 marks. or f22
los. so that the capital transferred to the United
States during last year amounted directly to
Is, $751; 67. And this, it should be remembered,
is not returnable to Germany in the ordinary
ways of trade or commerce, as, in point of fact,
the German emigrants to the United States be-
tors with Germany in agricultural and indus
trial pursuits DR.. Engle considers that the cost
of bringing up young person of the lower or
middle classes to the fifteenth years. about EGO,
and he estimates that the loss to Germany
during the emigration OF the last sixty years, in
cash and valuables taken by each emigrant, at
over nine milliards of marks nearly twice the
amount of the war indemnity paid by France in
1871