The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-01-30

ate parents to marry their children.
and get them beyond temptations;
aud particularly to see that the fe-
males-wno.e knowledge of the wO' III
is less thorough be wives. and under
the magistracy of a man at the proper
aye. Wealth and social position, so
far from. retardlag the social principle
in women. tempt it onward to the
great game of physical life and pos
terity.
The purpose of this is to show that
our rich families posses no privilege
in the troubles they enc, unter with
their children. The object of pursuit
Of every healthy woman is II man tn
love her; and our heaithiest men either
marry early, and lead long and COM
Portable life with the wife of their
youth, or marry often and set the ex-
ample of increase and multiplication.
Rich men. to q certain extent, neglect
their families more tnan poor ones. and
leave to the individuality of their
daughters opportunities and tempta-
tions. which, in the palmer family
circle. do not arise, because domestic
life is there sweeter and more sur
rounding.
The late Marshall o. Roberts. one
of our richest merchants, was three
times married, and left a wife still fine
and young enough to marry again.
The scores of years he had lived with
the wife of his youth. SO tar from de-
stroying the social principle in Comm.-
dore Garrison, excited it, and he look
ell for another wife where there was
youth and maidenhood. After living
with his wife, who was also his cousin.
for more than half a century, CimmO-
dore Vanderbilt, looking among his
poorer kin for another wife, married
one whose mother. il is said, he had
first designed 10 marry. but dropped a
whole generation In his search. Mr..
Gould is still a very young man. his
family jus' coming into the marriagea-
bic age. and he presents no subject for
an Illustration James Watson Webb,
the oldest living editor of New York
paper. had such gallantry of character
that when he was an old man, with
white hair, he married beautiful
young woman, VINO also possessed a
por ion. and she has bore him fam
lily; while one of her stepsOns, Webb.
has married a daughter of William
Vanderbilt A. Z. Stewart was SELL
sensitive about his amorous relations
and brought suit against various per-
sons who impugned his chastity; yet
[ find the idea to continue that he was
very warm-natured little man.
If you will talk in New York with
people of ordinary observation and
current intelligence, they will be APT
to tell you that in the very highest
circles of this city carelessuess about
the marriage VOWS is more to be noted
than in tue plain, regardful walks OF
life. The number of Young men
ready to marry diminishes as you
ascend the scale of wealth and family
consideration. Men are apt to look
| below them for their wives. Aztec
ton in the generality of cases starts
without any ambition to assist il.
Moving in his own genial sphere, sat
isfied with life as he finds and hope
full about the future. the young man
III New York takes a wife as a matter
If restraint and health and household
happiness. Consequently the rich
girls in city like this often mature
without the easy opportunities t.
marry that they see afforded in I'M
palmer walks.
Rich men are sensitive about their
son-in l;w, and are either looking fol
a person to marry the daughter who
can guard the property that has heeu
collected. or hope to advance their
own social status through their chill.
dren. There are, consequently, Objec-
tiOns made to this man because he is
poor, and TO that one because he il
too vulgar; and meantime the we'll.
fed. well-exercised, radiant young wo-
man grows very restless under her in.
dependence and is apt like our moth
er Eve 10 see her way clear to man
according as he comes in sight. 1t
NAV be the riding master. it may be
the butcher. it may be the muAc-mas-
ter. or it may be the young man che
perceives passing the window On the
street. When you have given a girl
everything. and have not yet given
her q husband, she is far from CRATE
full.
On the other hand, wealth il not
provocative oftemperance in marriage.
MANY IF our virtues We can avoid from