St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1883-08-25
ADVICE TO A YOUNG MAN.
iFrom the Burlington Hawkeye.l

right in the eye, and listen to me
with both ears. Get married. IF
you never do another thing in the
world, marry. You can't afford it?
Your father married on smaller
salary than you are getting now,
my boy, and he has eight children,
doesn't have to work very hard,
and every year he pays great pile
of your little bills that YOUR salary
won't cover. And your father was
just rs good a man at Your age us
you are now. Cer< you can
afford 10 marry. You can't afford
not to. No, I'm not going to quote
that tiresome old saying, that what
will keep one person will keep two,
because it won't. \ thousand dol
lar salary won't keep two. one thou
sand dollar people, but it will keep
two five hundred dollar people
nicely, and that's all you are, just
now, my boy. You need not vince
or get angry. Let me tell you, a
young man who rates in the world
as a FIVE hundred man, al the year
round, Monday as well as Satpr-
day, the day after Christmas just as
well as the day before, the fifth of
July as well as the third: he is go
ing to rate higher every year, until
he is partner almost before he
hoped to be beok-keeper. Good.
reliable five hundred dollar Young
men are not such Il drug in the
market as you snppose. You mar
ry, and yeur wife viii bring tact,
and love, and skill, and domestic
economy that will early double your
salary. But you would have to
deny yourself many little luxuries
and liberties? Certainly you would,
or rather yon'd willingly give them
up for greater luxuries. And you
don't want to shoulder the burdens
and cares of married life? see you
do not. And see what you do not
realize, perhaps s-that al your OBJ
iections to marriage are mean AID
selfish. Iou haven't given one
manly reason for not marrying. If
you 90 marry you are going into q
world Of new cares, new troubles,
new cmbarrassGlents. You are 60
ing to be careful and worried about
many things. You are going to he
tormented with household cares
and perplexities all new and un-
tried to you. You are going to he
pestered and bothered and trou
bled. You will have to walk the
hoor with ten pounds of baby and
a barrel full of collie. when you are
nearly crazy for sleep. You will
have to tell stories to the children
when you want to read. You viii
have to mend a toy for young Tom
when You ought TO be writing let
tiers. You will have to stay at
home in the evening when you used
to 90 to the Club. The baby vii!
rumple your necktie, and the other
children will trample in your lap
with their dusty shoes. Your wife
will have so much TO do looking
after the comfort of her husband
and children that she won't be able
to play and sing for you every eve
ming, as your sweetheart did. Your
time will not be your own, and you
Will have less leisure and freedom
for fishing and shooting excursions,
camps in the mountains and yacht
ing trips along the coast, than your
bachelor friends of your own age.
| admit all this. But then you viii
be learning self-denial; you will be
living for some one else; you will
be loving some one better than you
love yourself, and more than a
thousand fold that compcnsates for
all that you give up.
Why, you want to remain single