The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1883-02-01
Marriage.


A GEORGIA EDITORS LECTURE TO GALLON
LOVERS.
The SparkerS are looked upon by parents
generally as Il nuisance, and often they are
right. Nine-tenthS of the sparkling is done by
boys who have not got their growth. and they
look SO green that it is laughable for the old
folks to look at them. They haven't generally a
second shirt. and they are no more qualified to
marry than steer is to preach. And vet mar
rying is about the first thing they think of. A
green boy without Il dollar. present or pros
pectivc, sparkling Il girl regularly, and talking
about marrying, is Il spectacle for gods and
men. He should be reasoned with and if he
will not quit it till he is able to support wife.
and to know whom he loves, and the difference
between love and passion. he should be quar-
antlned or put in a convent erected on purpose
for such cases. Nine-tenths of the unhappy
marriages are the result of green human cal Ives
being allowed to run at large in the society
pastures without any yoke on them. They
marry and have children before they do mus
taches; they are fathers of twins before they
are prOprletors of two pairs of trousers, and
the little girls they marry are old women be-
fore they are twenty years Old. Occasionally
one of these gosng marriages turns out all
right, but 1t Is clear case of luck. If there
was a law against young galoots sparkling and
marrying before they have all cut their teeth
we suppose the little clsses would evadc it in
some way, but there ought to be a sentiment
bantams TO think of finding pullet when
they have raised money enough to buy Il
bundle of laths to build hen house. But
they see girl who looks cunning, and they are
AFRAID there Is not going to be girls enough to
around, and then they begin to get in their
work real spry and before they are aware of
the sanctity Of the marriage relations they are
hltched for life, and before they own Il cook
stove or Il bed>tead they have to get up in the
night and 90 after the doctor, so frightened that
they run themselves out of breath and abuse
the doctor because he doesn't run too. 1t is
about this time that young man learns that he
is a colossal fool, and as heTtlies around to heat
water and bring in the bath-tub. and goes
WhOopmg after his mother or her mother, he
turns pale around the gills, his hair turns red in
Il single night and he calls high heaven to wit
ness that if he lives till morning, which he has
doubts about, he will turn over a new leaf and
never marry again till he is older. And in the
morning the greeI-lOoking "father" is around
his hair sticking out all over. his eyes blootshot
open the door so that he can get some saffron to
make tea. Less than a year ago he thought he
was the greatest man that there ever was any
where, but as he sits there in the house that morn
ing with his wedding coat rusty and shiny and
his trousers frayed at the bottom. and his coat
patched at the elbow, and the nurse puts in his
arm roll of flannel with baby hid in it. he
holds it as he would a banana. and AS he looks
at his girl wife he thinks there is not provisions
enough in the house to feed canary, Il lump
comes into his throat and he says to himself
that if he had it to do over he would leave that
little girl at home to grow up with her mother,
and he would wait till he had So to buy flannel
and $40 to pay doctor. Rising Dawn (Ga.)
Gazette.