The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-01
THE DAILY ARGUS.
Girls Who Marry Presidents.


The story that Mrs. Lincoln said be-
fore she married that the man she mar
ried 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 in the
papers, and some are inclined to look
upon the prediction of the girl as mar
yelous. We do not look upon it as
marvellous at all. 1t is simply one girl
out of a million guessing right. Allg girls
think the same thing when they get
married, and before. and as somebody
has to be elected president. about one
girl out of million hits ii right. 1t is
safe to say that no girl ever married
man unless she thought he had the
making of the smartest man in this
country. That is. where they marry for
love, and are really mashed to begin
with. A girl who is in love with a
young fellow, never sees his disadyan-!
tages. She feels that by proper treat
ment and advice there is no position in
the world that he cannot fill, in time,
and she decides then and there 30 put
him in training for the presidency. No
matter if his head is a 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 in ten
who marry little shrimps or big awk-i
ward boys, and talk to them in conti-s
dence, and they will tell you that their
husband is bound to make his mark in
| the world, and that he will be president
some day. OF course nearly all OF them
fail. Hundreds that start out with the
intention Of being president, never get
above working in apaint shop. or max
ing shoes, or driving team, or farming.
| T9ey lose their grip before the cam
paign opens. In a short but brilliant
career we have seen hundreds of young
fellows who started out from the dis
| trict school to win the. presidency. Up
| to this time none of them haze 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. Onesis
| holding down a dry goods box in front
| of Il store, while his wife supports him,
working in millinery store. Another
| don't do much except on election day,
| when he peddles tickets, or clerks. at
| the polls, and makes four dollars, and
| lunches that day on herring and crack
ers at u 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 succeed
ING in business of various kinds, though
| their wives haze an idea vet, that ii the
| husband fails To be president the child
| rem will, some of them, take the cake.
| 1t is a proud day for a woman when she
takes husband. and thinks how she
viii surprise theaother girls when she
escorts that husband to the w hite
HonSe, L but how disappointed she is
when he gets the nomination for ward
/ constable, and then gets beat. She then
| begins To- realize the horrors of disap-
/ pointed ambition. 1t is Well for girls to
| have n high ambition for the men they
marry, but where there is such an
enormous supply of presidential mater
ial. and only one office, it looks to us as
| though it would be better to settle on
some smaller office. say tewnsupervisor.
That is an Office any wsomanmay aspire
to. for her husband, and greater por-
/ portion viii catch on. When girl mar
ries young fellow and desires t6
| stimulate his ambition TO become g
statesman. let her point 10 some super
| visor or alderman. and say to him thai
she will never rest contented untff hen
husband occupies that exalted position
Then a fellow won't be so apt TO be dis
| couraged, but If Won spring the presi
dency on him he is apt to lose his eud
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