The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1882-09-23
GIRLS WHO MARRY PRESIDENTS.
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| The story that Mrs. Lincoln said be-
fore she married that the man she mar
ried would one day be President of tho
United States, and that there are letters
now In existence written to friends of her
youth in which she reiterated the asser.
tion, Is having quite q run in the pnners
and some are inclined to look unon tho
prediction Of the girl as marvellous. Wc
do not look upon 1t as marvellous Mt nil.
1t is simply one girl out of a milli0n
guessing right. All girls think the
same thing when they get married, and
before, and as somebody has to be elect
ed President about one girl out of a mill
lion hits itright. 1t is safe to say that
no girl ever married Il man unless she
thought she had the making of the
smartcst man in this country. That
is where they marry for love and arc
really mashed to begin with. \ girl
who Is in love with Il young fellow never
sees his disadvantages. She feels that
by proper treatment and advice there is
no position in the world that he can not
fill, in time, and she decides then and
there to put him in training for the Pres
iuency. No matter if his head is Il
number six and slopes the wrong way,
she thinks it will fill out. She is going
to do her best on him anyway. Take
y
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 in the world, and that
no will be President some day. or
course nearly all OF them fail. Hun
dreds that start out with the intention
of being President never get above
paint shop, or making shoes, or
driving a team, or farming. They
lose their grip before the campaign
opens. In short but brilliant career wo
have seen hundreds OF young fellows who
start out from the district school to win
the Presidency. Upto this time none
of them have got there. They all got
married to girls who expected them to
be President, but they have gone ashore
all along the stream that leads to White
House. One is holding down n dry
goods box in front of Il store, while his
wifo supports him, working in Il mill
merry store. -\hothcr don't do much cX-
cept on election day, whom he peddles
tickets or clerks at the polls, and nlalzea
four dollars, and lunches that day on
| herring and crackers ut Il grocery. An
other is tending bar, the presidential
fever was on. Dozens of the boys who
had never had ambition to be Pro ;ident
are succeeding in business of various
kinds, though their wives ilave an idc y
yet that if the husband fails to bo Prcsi-
dent the children will, somc of them
take the cake. 1t is proud day
for woman when sho takes hus-
band, and thinks how she will stir-
prise the other girls when she escorts
that husband to the White House, but
how disappointed she is when he gets
beat. Shc then begins to realize the
horrors of disappointed ambition. 1t is
well for girls to have Il high ambition for
the men they marry, but where there is
such an enormous, supply OF prcsiden-
tial material, and only one Office, looks
to us as though 1t would be better to
settle on some smaller Office SAY town SUI
pervisor. That is an Office any woman
may aspire for, for her husband, and
a greater portion will catch on. When
n girl marrics u young fellow and desires
to stimulate his ambition so become Il
statesman, let her point to some super
visor or alderman, and say to him that
she will never rest contcntcd unti1 her
husband occupies that exalted position.
Then II fellow won't be so apt to be dis
couraSed, but if you spring the prcsi-
dency on him he is apt to lose his
cud.