The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-10-03
AND SO THEY WERE MARRIED"

According to the popular novel the young
more or less tortuous course of wooing and
true love to the final climax of marriage are
considered to nave done their duty by the
world. What may come after that happy
event is a matter of no consequence. There
is a tacitly accepted theory that being once
married they live happily ever after. If
there are any further trials and tribulations
nobody wants to hear of them, and each fond
pair is, in turn, dismissed with a ''bless you,
my children" while the reader of romance
follows the fortunes of other lovers. Thus
IN novels. In real life, if
the cynics are to be believed,
and cynics are painfully numerous, trouble
begins with the wedding day. No ooner do
the manageable young persons show symp-
toms of a wish to unite their fortunes than
they are overwhelmed with warnings and adj
vice OF a depressing character. Marriage is a
lottery; better stay free and be happy; a few
happy weeks and then misery, are the gist
of the croakings. The shower of wedding
cards futtering about these October days in
dictate that croakings have little effect, and
test the matter for themselves, or rather to
prove the dismal prophets to be the falsest
of the false. Possibly they agree the novel
lists are not correct in bringing life practi-
cally to an end at such an interesting point;
but neither are they right who ~foretell awful
consequence i'll disappointment and a re-
sulting disgust with existence. And the
young people have reason On their side.
Because the old married man has made a
matrimonial mistake and expresses gloomy
views thereon, it does not follow that others
shall do likewise. The same married man
will, as soon as he has opportunity, hasten
to put his neck in what he calls 1.-THE moose
again. Indeed, it not unfrequently happens
that he is so eager to try his luck again that
the second moose encircles him before the
divorce court has cut the first. The woman
who inveighs against married life the most
vigorously is apt to be an inveterate match
maker.
The cynical man should correct his I'M
pleasant habit of s~neering at marriage. He
is either soured by actual disappointment, or
he is not in earnest, and in neither case is his
conversation agreeable. Why not keep his
private dissatisfaction with his lot to
himself, and admit that the novelists are
right? No warnings ever made young
lovers wiser. 1t is love that makes
the world go round" and lovers OF to-day,
though they may not go through three vol
umes of distressing adventures for each
others sake, are yet quite as likely to live
long and to owe truly as in the halcyon
days of some by-gone age.
While the world stands there will be mar
rying and giving in marriage, and though
there may be those who are glad that this is
not so in heaven, let them, nevertheless,
congratulate the young people who will
from to-day walk together through this
world. So far as the public is concerned,
they have reached the end of the novel in
which they have played a part. 1t is pleas
ant TO believe that for themselves their
romance is but just begun, and that they
will live happily forever after.