The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1886-01-15
~LAFAdAN,s LOGIC.
MARRIAGE
Is the offspring of Heaven.


IL you marry for love and make q hit
keep cool; don't blow about it.
Some marry for the fun Of the thing
and see where it m in. This
is discouraging.
Some marry for the sake of a good
companion and never discover their mis-
take. This is lucky.
It is better to have a comely help
meet" of some use than . brilliant one
simply Of some pumpkins"
Man is . tickle 'critter." Ever
Adam, who had his wife made to order
found more or less fault with her.
Don't marry a man for his reputation
It is liable to be only a secondhand a.
fair, borrowed from his ancestors.
Many women have married men for
their fine exterior. But that's all there
is to an ancient egg worth mentioning.
Many marry to spite someone elsa
only to learn that they got the butt-end
OF the transaction, and its worst end at
that.
Marriage is a lottery full Of chances.
That's what gives it flavor. All like to
chance it, because everybody thinks to
win a prize.
Wedlock, in its original state, was as
pure as sweet milk fresh from the COW,
but man couldn't rest until he stripped
it of much of its rich cream.
l say when you are ready to get mar
ried, get married. However it isn't SO
much trouble to get married as to know
when you want to get married.
The hot-headed youth marries in =
hurry because he fears marriageable fe-
males will be scarce next year, and lives
to wonder how the supply holds out.
Marriage resulting from love ct first
sight is not generally welded bliss on a
par with sonr milk. One or the other
gets swindled, and often both.
The single-bedstead plan is not to the
credit of either man or m It
looks lonesome and selfish. Single
blessedness is suspicious and in turn
suspected.
Many a mar has married for beauty,
only to learn that he paid ten dollars
for what can be purchased for twenty
five cents at the druggists. This is
hard.
The most affectionate people before
marriage seldom hold out in the same
proportion after the knot is tied. 1t is
better philosophy to commence only as
you would live afterward.
From the matrimonial market the
saints of both sexes were culled out long
ago. Don't expect to marry one: You
must guess at some things and take
chances for the future on this basis.
Woman is sometimes the real cause
of unhappiness in the married relations
OF life, but in the majority of instances
the boot is on the other foot and she is
the only true comfort there is in it.
Don't marry a woman for her taper
fingers and lily hands alone, for mar
ried life and its rugged experiences call
for a wife that knows how to make the
pot boil and a spank babies systemati-
cally.
But few people marry for pure love,
and they in after years suspicion that
what was at the time supposed prompt
inegs of the tender passions were. in all
probability. but the first symptoms Of
cholera morbus.
The mar who marfies a woman SIM
ply because she is a handy arrangement
to have about the house, does so from a
purely business standpoint, and in the
end, if not compelled to support him,
she has done better than many women
I know of.
Many a man who has married for
money has never realized a dividend
upon the investment; and many women
! who have done the same thing have left
word for their posterity that, although
q fair transaction upon the face of it,
yet it is just as liable to be a put up job.
Chicago Ledger.