The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-08-08

in Society.
Philadelphia Press.
So long as the cat is left in company
with the cream Jug thecream will be abb
sorbed," and SO longas young people of
both sexes are allowed to meet freely in
social intercourse there will be more or
less marrying and giving in marriage.
1t is greatly to be feared that with
the proyerbial thoughtlessness Of youth,
the young people viii not stop to con
slider the question Of ways and means,
nor calmly calculate whether they shall
be able to gather sticks in suficient
quantity TO keep the matrimonial pot
boiling. Tom, with a lovers ardor,
will probably forget to inquire, before
marriage, whether Jemima is capable
of cooking dinner, while Jemima, on
her part, is just as likely to be left in
blissful ignorance whether Tom has a
bank account, outside of his salary,
which will ensure there being a dinner
to cook as well as q kitchen Wherein to
cook il.
IL is all a mistake to say that two
people can live as cheaply as one; for
proof con%troyertive you have only to ask
for rates at any boarding house.
For example,, Augustus manages to
support life quite endurably on hi, sal
airy of $40 Oh $50 per week; perhaps
even maintains a certain position ia So
ciety thereon, but he would never dream
Of asking Augusta TO share it. If he did,
Augusta, with her worldly wisdom,
would think him demented or tipsy. Six
dollars a week pays for his bedroom on
the fourth floor of the respectable board
ing house, which he patronizes, or, per-
haps he rents q small furnished room,
and trusting to occasional invitations
to dinner, takes his meals on the Euro
pean plan. The rest of his salary, with
close economy, keeps him in clothes,
gloves and cigars, with an occasional
theatre ticket and admission to the OPP
era on gala nights. His well-kept dress
suit does not often need renewal, and
dancing men are always in request at
parties.
But what on earth could he do with
a wife? Angels and ministers of grace
defend us. Where are Augustus
dresses to come from? How is even
the board bill for two, instead of one,
to be paid? How could they expect
people" to visit them? So he dances
on, hoping vainly to find a rich wife,
while she, on her part knows that her
duty to herself requires that her hus-
band shall be able to give her at least
the Injuries to which she has been ac-
customed and keeps detrimentals at a
safe distance.
Or if they forget themselves so far as
to marry, In oil probability both of them
are miserable, since neither can help
looking back with longing eyes
to the world whence they have shut
themselves by their wedding.
To insure happiness In married life
there must be perfect support, thorough
sympathy as we'll as sincere affection
between the twain who have been made
rone flesh" When there is wealth and
to spare, less may answer, but for the
welded pair who, while two In heart,
must bear the privations of poverty as
one, life is hard indeed. While love
may not actually 'sweeten sngarless
tea,p il undoubtedly does much to rem
der the cup less n~auseous. That woman.
can not be altogether unhappy who
knows that she is the light of her hus.
bands eyes-that man cannot be utterly
discouraged who knows that, come what
may, his wife believes in him thoroughly.
While il is not always d safe expert
ment, a man, If he be worthy the name,
will often work the harder, and yin sue
cess ia the face of apparently insur-
mountable obstacles because he has Civ.
man has won his laurels chiefly because
he could not bear to 3isappoint the
woman whose faith in him might have
moved mountains, when left to himself,
he had probably sat down content with
q little success.
A good wife is seldom, if ever, a hind
rance to q man, and it has passed into q
proyerb that marriage either makes or
mars q man tIt is not good for man
(still less woman) to be alone,r and,
however willingly single blessedness may
have been chosen, there are few who IN
such case do not sometimes feel how
hard q thing il is to look at happiness
through other peoples eyes," Still
marriage is by ri NEAR to be lightly
entered into. AS a wise old lady used
to say, never marry anybody until you
are quite sure that you cannot be COM
Portable without them.
But If two people be Of sound health
in mind and body, love each other
truly, and have a reasonable certainty
Of an income sufficient to keep the wolf
from the door, let them not fear to
marry, provided always that they ars
wiling to give up all attempt at fash
ionable display, and without dread Of
Mrs. Grundv, steadily to live within