The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1882-04-06
Young Fools Who Marry

These sparkers are looked upon 10y par
ents generally as nuisance, and often
they are right Nine-touths Of the spark.
In is done by boys who haven't got THEN
growth aud they look so green that it is
laughable for the old folks TO look at them,
They haven I generallya second store shirt
and they are no more qualified to get mar
ried than COW is TO preach. And yet
marrying is the first thing they think Of
A green boy, without dollar, present or
prospective, sparkling girl regularly aud
talking about! marrying is a spectacle for
gods and men, He should be reasoned
with, and if he will not quit 1t until he is
able to support wife and to know whom
he loves, and the difference between love
and passion, he should be qusrautincd or
put in a convent erected on purpose for
such cases Nine.tenths OF the unhappy
marriages are the result OF green human
beings allowed to run at large in the soci-
ETY. pasture without any yoke on them.
They marry and have children before they
do moustaches; they are fathers of twins
before they are the ipropretors of two
pairs Of pants, and the little girls they
marry are old women before they are thir-
ty years old. Occasionally one OF these
gosling marriages turns out all right, but
it is a clear case of luck, If there was
law against young galoots sparkling and
marrying before they have all their teeth
cut we suppose the little cusses would
eyade it in some way, but there ought to
be sentiment agains it, 1t is time enough
for these bantams to think OF finding pul-
let when they have raised money enough
by their own work to buy bundle OF laths
to build hen-house. But they see girl
who looks cunning and there are not 60
ing 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
tity OF the marriage relation they are
hitched for life aud before they own cook |
stove or bedstead they have to get up in |
the night and goafter the doctor, so fright |
eaed that they run themselves ont Of
BREATH abuse the doctor because he does |
not run too, aud when the doctor gets there
he finds there is not linen enough in the
house to wrap up doll baby; it is about
this time that young man begins to real
ize that he has been colossal fool, and |
as he flies round to heat water and bring |
in the bath tub and goes whooping after
his mother or her mother, his hair turns
red in single night and he calls high
heaven to witness that if he lives till NOR
ming, which he has doubts about, he will
turn over new leaf and never get mar
red till he is older. And in the morning
the green looking "father' is aroused be-
fore drug store is open, and with no col
lar on, his hair sticking every way, his eyes
blood-shot and his frame nervous he waits
for the clerk TO open the door so he can
get some saffron to make some tea Of. Less
than year ago he thought he was the grea-
test man there was anywhere, but as he
sits there in the house that morning, with
his wedding coat rusty and shiny, his
pants frayed at the hcttom and his coat
patched at the elbow, and the nurse puts
in his arms little roll of flannel with
baby hid in it, he holds it as he would
and as he looks at his girl wife on
the bed, nearly dead from pain and ex
provisions in the house to feed canary,
lump comes into his throat and he says to
himself that il he had TO do it over he
would leave the little girl at home TO grow
mp with her mother and he would wait till
be had six dollars to buy baby flannel aud
ten dollars to pay a docto