Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-11-23
MARRIAGE AND SUCCESS.
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= D000o0eS View on the B1eas0d.
nsa - MatIimOOy.
, Nearly an tho successful men are,
married. All our great authors.
wrissrA speakers, generals. statesmen
took to themselves in early life wife.
With whom they have served their coun-
try. establishing homes and rearing
fsu,ifi.A 30 that the exception is nota-
bic and the rule almost invariabIe. 1
query whether it is more difficult for
married men to make both ends meet
than for bacheiors. for experience
shows that the average person goes
through life making Just little less
than his necessitie3 demand. 1t all de-
ponds upon tAe way one starts, how he.
progresses and how he lives. A maa
who makes five thousand dollars 8 year
and spcods six thousand dollars is OBJ
viously born to trouble, and so along
the upper gamut of pecuniary income.
until We touch the highest figures.
where men coin. BY the bright utiliza-
ton of their intellects. all the way from
fifty thousand dollars to one hundred
and fifty thousand dollars year. and
can not content themselves with ex-
penditures smaller than seventy-tive
thousand dollars to two hundred thou
sand dollars year. The certainty that
rent day il coming and also the bills Of
the butcher. the baker. the grocer. the
tailor. the school teacher. the livery
stable. the servants and . thousand
and one sources which will instantly
occur to a man Of family, stimulates
the LATEST to efforts and haloes tho
iabors Of the Industrious. We who are
in life know this We who are in the tolls
of life. bearing the burdens of the day,
see that continuous striving is no harder
70 us than to those who. standing by
our side, have no burdens to
bear save those of their own
self-indulgence. l never hear a
man say he would get married if
he could afford it without distrusting
him. Such men would be misers if
they had anything to save. Such men
would hoard and gloat and take pleas
ure in the physical presence Of gold
and silver and the rustling of bank
notes.
What il money for but to spend
Why do We spend it but to secure enjoy
mcnts born Of comforts and luxury for
tbose We love. as we'll as for ourselves?
You viii notice am not discussing
this question Of matrimOny from the
plane Of morality. from the plane Of
companionship. from the plane of help
fulsess, but solely and smgiy from the
vla nm ~ ;pAo,soS1anoa xvharoo, rA
stand. finding it as easy to support two
a one, and half a dozen as two.
Meager must he be in mental and phys
icsl equipment who hesitates to plunge
in the cauldron of matrimony because
he can not afford it Utterly made
quate must be his conception of the
aids and sbetmeHs which necessity
provides II he hesitates to marry =
woman he loves for fear he can not
provide q cage pretty enough for his
bird.
How many times would even the
dullest minded man present himself to
his wife and children drunk? How
often will the most calloused ear hear
without response his children's cry for
bresdi How ones conscience must be
scared and beaten into deafness ere he
can see shivering. becauss unprotected
by needed clothing. the limbs Of wife
and children! The mans own self
respect precludes the possibility of such
outrageous traverses of decency as
these. That there are drunkards who
are married and have children is an
unfortunate fact But firmly believe
their number would be vastly aug
mented if matrimony was the exception
and single blessedness the rule of tho
living of the race.-Ril1delfAsd Times.