Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1882-09-06
Girls who Marry Presidents,

The story that Mrs. Lincoln said before
she married that the man she married would
one day be President of the United States,
and that there are letters now in existence
written to friends Of her youth in which she
reiterated the assertion, is having quite q
run III the papers, and some are inclined to
look upon the prediction of the girl as mar
Vclous. We do not look upon it us marvel
GUS at all. 1t is simply girl out of Il mil
lion guessing right. All girls think the
same thing when they get married, and be-
fore, and us some body has to be elected
President, about one girl out of Il million
hits it right 1t is safe to saw that no girl
ever married Il man unless she thoughts he
had the making Of the smartest man i'm this
country That is where they marry for love
and are really mashed to begin with. A
girl who is in love with young fellow nev-
er sees his disadvantages. She feels that by
proper treatment and advice there is no 20
stlon III the world that he cannot ill, in
time, and she decides then and there to put
him in training for the Presidency. No mat
If his head is number six and slopes the
wrong way, she thinks it will fill out. She
is going to do her best on him anyway.
Take nine girls out of ten who marry little
shrimps or big, awkward boys, and talk to
them in confidence, and they will tell
you that their husband is bound
to make his mark i'll the world and that
he will be President some day. or course
nearly all of them fail. Hundreds that start
out with the intention of being President
never get above working in II paint shop, or
making shoes, or driving Il team or farm
ing. They lose their grip before the cam
paign opens. In Il short but brilliant career
we have seen hundreds of young fellows
who started out from the district school TO
win the Presidency. Up to this time none
Of them have got there. They have all got
married to girls who expected them to be
Presidents, but they have gone ashore all
along the stream that leads to the White
House. One is holding down dry goods
box in front of q store, while his wife sup
ports him, working in q millinery store.
Another don't do much except OH election
day, when he peddles tickets, or clerks mt
the polls, and makes four dollars, and
lunches that day on herring and crackers at
q grocery. Another is tending bar, and he
was the smartest Of the lot when the
presidential fever was on. Dozens of the
boys who never had any ambition to be
PRESIDENT are succeeding in business of
" fehiiouo NlluSi IuOuSu IHelT wives nave an
idea yet that if the husband fails to he
President the children will, some of them,
take the cake. 1t is proud day for a wo-
man when she takes husband, and thinks
how she will surprise the other girls when
she escorts that husband to the White House,
but how disappointed she is when he gets
beat. She the begins to realize the horrors
Of disappointed ambition. tits we'll for girls
to have high ambition for the men they
marry, but where there is such an enormous
supply of presidential material, and only one
office, it looks to us as though it would be
better to settle on some smaller Office, say
town supervisor, That is an Office any wo-
man may aspire for, for her husband, and
greater portion will catch on. When girl
marries young fellow and desires to stimu-
late his ambition to become statesman, let
her point to some supervisor or alderman,
and say to him that she will never rest con-
tented until her husband occupies that cx-
alted position. Then fellow won't be so
apt to be discouraged, but if you spring the
Presidency on him he is apt to lose his cud.
-Peck's Sun.