News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1882-07-13

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common good, Eerefore, that marriage
should be eeouraged, and right views
concerning tie responsibilities dissent,
mated. If mn and women could wed
each other fe limited period only,
and so form scopartnership like those
entered into fe mere bu siness purposes,
the institution of the family would be
uprooted, soclty would have no sta
billty, there would be no secur ity for
the rearing ofchildren, and practical
free love void result. Something
more than material interest must govern
the action of married people. They
must be welded together by sentiment,
and kept UNITED by a common love of
their children md a common pride in
the preservation of their families. Those
are not business considerations, in
which such sentiments have no part.
''No man under salary should marry
poor woman, Says our correspondent.
Whom, then, is he to marry? Who
shall marry thepoor woman; or shall
they go unmarried ? The woman who
is not poor maynot be willing to marry
the poor man, and rich men may not
want the poor women. Indeed, as So
cietv grows oder the tendency of
wealth is to seek wealth or grayitate to-
ward wealth in marriage. 1t is in the
nature of things that it should try to
strengthen its position. Besides, the
social intercourse of the rich is such as
to bring the rich in contact with the
rich, and they are most likely to marry
among their own sort. 1t must be re-
membered, too, that the supply of girls
with money is not large enough to go
around. 1t does not suffice to satisfy
the demand among young men of ex-
ravagant habits, and therefore the pro-
portion of marriages among them is
smaller than in any other class.
1t is doubtless true, however, that a
poor man cannot afford to marry a
woman to be maintained simply as an
ornament. He needs helpmeet. a fell
low worker. To get such a woman he
is wisest in the run of cases, if he weds
one who, like himself, has been accus-
toned to the economies and is able to
fulfill the duties imposed by narrow
means. If he is workingman, he wants
a working wife, one who can take care of
his home, and, if neces sary and possible
contribute to the common fund for the
support of the family. He is to work
In one way and she in another, and they
are to hold their earnings jointly. Both |
the man and the woman should expec |
to do that, and be proud to do it. So |
doing, they will both gain by marriage |
not merely sentimental benefits, but |
ones also. French women,
'or instance, who can perform skilled |
abor, will often hire their rough do
nestle work done in order that they
nay have time for other employment at
which they can make much more than
he wages of the domestic. It is a wise
custom.
The right kind of working girl makes
A better wife for workingman than a
'ich girl would. She is better adapted
% him. The great majority of the rich
md well-to-dO men in New York started
'ut in life with wives poor like them
elves. They pulled together and made
common sacrifices, the wife contributing
IS much to thesuccess achieved as the
1t was, indeed, because they
lad such wives that they won success.
Two are better than one, especially
where both aregood. The workingman
Who Is married to good wife, devoted
o his interests and ready to share his
oils as well as Is oi Joys, who is strength
ned by oarryn sspssgss possibilities of
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nc family, 70. 70 the vast
majority Of pasr,n his old
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