The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1883-04-25
Girls Who Marry Presidents.

The story that Mrs. Lincoln said be-
fore she married that the man she mar
ried would some day be president Of the,
United States, and that there are letters
now in existence written to friends OF
her youth in which she reiterated the
assertion, is having quite a run in the
papers, aud ONE are inclined to look
upon the prediction of the girl as mar
velous, but it is simply one girl out
of q million guessing right. All girls
think the same thing when they get
married, and before, and as somebody
has to be elected President, about n
girl out of a million hits it right. 1t is
safe to saythat no girl ever married a
mar unless she thought he had the MAX
ing of the smartest man in the country.
That is, where they marry for love and
are really mashed to begin with. A girl
who is in love with a young fellow
never sees his disadvantages. She feels
that by proper treatment and advice
there is no position in the world that be
can not fill, in time, and she decides
then and there to put him in training
for the presidency. No matter if his
head is a number six and slopes the
wrong way, she thinks it will fill out.
| She is going to do her best On him any
way. Take nine girls in ten who marry
little shrimps or big awkward boys, and
talk to them in confidence, and they
will tell YOU that their husband is bound
to make his mark in the world, and that
he will be president some day. Ofcourse
nearly all of them fail. Hundreds that
start out with the intention of being
president never get above working in a
paint shop, or making shoes, or driving
team, or farming. They lose their grip
before the campaign opens. In a short
but brilliant career we have seen hun
dreds of our fellows who started out
from the district school to win the pres
idency. Up to this time none OF them
have got there. They have all got mar
ried to girls who expected them to be
presidents, but they have gone ashore
all along the stream that leads to the
White House. One is holding down a
dry goods box in front st q store, While
his wife supports him, working IN a
millinery store. Another don't DO much
except on election day, when he peddles
ickets. or clerks at tie polls, and makes
81. and lunches that day on herring and
crackers at a grocery. Another is tend.
ing bar. and he was the smartest OF the
lot. when the presidential fever was on.
Tt is a proud day for a woman when she
takes a husband, and thinks how she
will surprise the other girls when she
escorts that husband to the White Honse
but how disappointed she is when he
oets the nomination for ward constable
and then gets beat. She then begins to
realize the horrors Of disappointed am
bition. It is well for girls to have
high ambition for the men they marry
but where there is such an enormous
supply of presidential material, ane
only one office, it looks to us as though
it would be better tosettle on some small
Ter office, say town supervisor. That L
an office any woman may aspire for, To-
her husband, and a greater proportion
will catch on. When a girl marries !
Young fellow and desires to stimulate
his ambition to become a statesman, lie
her point to some supervisor or alderman
and say to him that she will never res
contented until her husband occupies
that exalted position. Then q fellow
won't be SO apt to be discouraged, but !
you spring the presidency on him he j
apt to lose his cud.