St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1883-02-16

aglne how they happened to change
their minds on so important a subject,
and Louise kept her own counsel.
Advice TO Young Men.
REASONS WHY TELEMACHUs SHOULD
GET MARRIED ON A $1,000 SALARY.
Get married, my boy9 Telemachus,
come up close and look me right in the
eye,-and listen ts 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 a
smaller salary than you are getting
now, my boy, and he has eight children,
doesn't have to work very hard, and
he pays great pile of your little bills
that your salary won't cover. And
your father was just as good man at
your age as you are now. Certainly,
you can afford to 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. A thousand
dollar 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, young man who
rates in the world as a five hundred
dollar man all the year round, Monday
as well as Saturday the day after
Christmas just as well as the day be-
fore; the fifth of July as well as the
third, he is going to rate higher every
year, until he is partner almost be-
fore he hoped to be a boOkkeeper.
Good, reliable five hundred dollar
young men are not such a drug in the
market as you suppose. You marry,
and your wife will bring tact, and love,
and skill, and domestic genius, and
wOmanly economy that will early
double your salary. But you would
have to deny yourself many little lux
uries and liberties? Certainly you
would; or, rather you'd willingly give
them up for greater luxuries.' And you
don't want to shoulder the burdens and
cares of married life d? | see you dc
not. And | see what you do not real
ize, perhaps, that all your objections to
marriage are mean and selfish. You
haven't given one manly reason for not
marrying. If you do marry, you are
| going into a world of new cares, new
troubles, new embarassments. You
are going to be careful and worried
about many things. You are going to
be tOrmented with household cares and
perpleXities, all new and untried to
you. You are going to be pestered
and bothered and troubled. You will
have to walk the floor, with ten pounds
of baby and barrelful of collie, when
you are nearly crazy for sleep. You
will have to tell stories to the children
when you want to read. You will have
to mend toy for young Tom, wher
you ought to be writing letters. You
will have to stay at home in the even.
ing, when you used to go to the club
The baby will rumple your necktit
and the other children will trampl,
into your lap with their dusty shoes
Your wife will have so much to do
looking after the comfort of her hus
band and children, that she won't b,
able to sing and play for you every
evening, as your sweetheart did. You
time will not be your own, and yOl
will have less leisure and freedom fO
fishing and shooting excursions, camps
in the mountains and yachting trip
along the coast than your bachelO
friends of your own age. | admit al
this. But, then, you will be learnin,
self-denial; you will be living fo
some one else you will be loving som,
one better than you love yourself, anC
more than a thousand fold that com
pensates for all that You give up.
Why, you want to remain single now
my boy, Just because you are selfish
And the longer you remain single tn,
more this seltishness will grow on you
There are some noble exceptions anon,
bachelors, l know, and some meal
ones among married men and selfisl
married man needs killing more thai
any other man | know; but as a rule
Just look around your own friends anC
see who are the unselfish men. Wh'
is it that gives up his seat in a street
car to a wOman-nOt a pretty yOuni
girl, but hOmely wrinkled woman il
shabby dressq Who is it heads tn
charity subscriptions Who pays til
largest pew rent? Who feeds the beg
gar7 Who finds work for the tramp
8 Who are the men foremost in unselfisl
work 2 | know your bachelor friend
are not stingy Oh, MOI | know Jac
FastbOy paid $3.50 last week for a ney
buggy it is light as a match box, an,
has such a narrow seat that he neve
can ask friend to ride with him; an,
ut the same time, Dick Slocum, VIII
;; married your sister Alice, five year
ago, gave $3.50 for the cyclone suffer
ers. | think the angels laughed a
that afternoon but don't think it wa
because Jack paid $50 for his nel
buggy. If you want to shirk the re
spOnsibilities of life, my dear boy, yO
may if you want to live forty or fift
years, with no one under the heaven
to think about, or care for, or plan fC
but yourself, go ahead and do it. Yo
will be the only loser. The world wi
not miss you nearly as much as yO
will miss the world. YoI will have
mean, lonely, selfish, easy time, an(
unless you are rare exception to yOr
= class, little children will hate you, an
the gods never yet loved any ma
;, whom the children disliked.- Bu
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