The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-05-02
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What Chances a Poor Young Man Has Co
Marry "a Millionaire's Daughter.
Cath in Miore.roI;. Tr;Ln-.

What Chances a Poor Young Man Has to
Marry a MiIlionaire's Daughter.
Gath. in Minneapolis Tribune.
Some gossips were telling me, from the vicin-
iy OF RlTerdale, where the Morosinis live, that
the old man had not only not forgiven his daueh-
ter, but that he hated her. The exposure of his
name by her singing in concert saloons. the COM
ing to Yonkers, in his own neighborhood. with a
band OF music to advertise the minstrel show in
which she sang, these and other insults had
brought out the Italian in the old gentleman.
and some said that he had threatened il he
ever met his daughter to kill her. Indeed,
1T is a much harder thing for women
In our time, especially in these large cities, to
marry In their sphere than one would think. A
father accomplishes something in life, has q
passable or fine daughter, educates her well,
Keeps her from manual labor, and expects that
she VIII marry upward But there are so many
rich men now who have daughters to marry that
moderately successful or promising young men
In business can marry above them. and they do
not often look below. The fear of wealthy men
IN our time is not so much of poor sons-in-law as
or sons-in law who are dissipated and low, and
will come back on the old man. Young mer-
chants and good-standing young lawyers
probable to make a living, even newspapers
men who have shown capacity, are rather at a
premium. Very rich men rather desire to wed
their daughters to some other fortune, but the
examples of fatal marriage mistakes are SO
numerous that a man of fair morals. fair address
and fair prospects, if ne has nothing else, is
welcome to the rich man. There lie around our
cities plenty of men who have but one chance
left in a life. and that is a rich wife. They ara
often men OF superior means, with excellent
knowledge of the world and a particular knowl-
edge of the female nature. The young woman
whose father has given her everything but a
husband, beholds this agreeable kind of man
come to her house invited by her father, and she
hears with delight the proffer of interest in her
made perhaps 70 her mother. Suddenly the old
man hears the prospect Of q son in-law. He
knows how under that worldly exterior there
exists nothing, that the energies are spent, the
hopes are over. and the fresh and virginia. nature
OF the man has been expended upon cyprians
and adventuresses. His objection is instant and
decisive, and the young woman soon finds her
father, having seen into her heart, bringing to
the house some hum-drum business character,
who in time pays his addresses. is accept
ed with a sigh. and so the human
race goes on. In our day there is
every temptation to young men to hold them
selves high, TO maintain their character, not only
as the world can see it, but as they see it them
selves. 1t is the experience of all rich people
that there is nothing worth an alliance so much
as character in a young man. 1t comprehends
money because a young man of regulated habits
matured principle, and gentle manliness, can
take care of a fortune and the daughter which
another man has made.
1t is more than probable that the great
prospects OF wealth lie behind us, and that
in the future few opportunities will occur
like the period of and following the civil war.
Hence those fortunes already acquired give
great solicitude to their possessors' and in no
point so much as in their executor and son-in-
law. When our girls with millionaire fathers
go out and marry the coachman there is some
significance about it; the father of such a girl
must have failed to find any young man up
to his ideas for his daughter. There are
young men, however, too honorable TO go and
marry the daughter of a broker who has been
the toady of some rich man about Wall street
Strange as it may seem to some people, there
are young men who hold themselves as chasto
and chivalric as if they were women. That
ought to be the status of all young men.