Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1886-04-14
HOW TO MARRY.
A Treatise That Should BE Read by Eve
Young Fellow Seeking a Sweetheart.

The following is u Philadelphia ply
sician's advice to young man pros
peeting for a wife:
When the adult age is reached-what?
AZ truly as every positive requires a
negative, every knife its fork and that
opposites attract, so, too, with the geaaatS
homo, like birds they must mate, and it
is not good for man to be alone. The
great event of a mans life is to seek
and secure sweetheart and then have
wedding day. Now, to choose a proper
wife and companion is the puzzle in
every mans experience. Some choose
for beauty, others for accomplishments
and establishments, some for wit and
manners, ;,i.u the average young man
for money and family, but after all love,
supported by prudence and discretion,
other things being equal, should act as
the all-inspiring motive. Happiness
follows love, and wealth can not buy
happiness; it may contribute to its exis-
tence, but happiness is an attribute be-
yond purchase.
As physical adviser, no marriage
should occur unless both contracting
parties are healthy subjects; to be a
good animal is the highest gift in nat
IRE. A marriage has vast responsible
ty, Ringing upon it the future procrea-
ton of our species, the perpetuation of
the human family; therefore no man
wants to become a father of race of
pigmies or deformed dwarfs-physical
cripples, to the disgrace of himself, his
wife and his progeny = God forbid!
Let man consider this well. First of
all, then, see that the prospective wife
be a thoroughly healthy girl and fine
animal. 1t is safe for us to say that
nowadays far too many mothers are
culpable for encouraging matrimony
when they know in their heart of hearts
that their daughters are subject to organ
lie diseases. This is to be- severely de-
precated and frowned down upon
wherever and whenever seen. On the
other hand, the presumptive swain who
contemplates Hymen's knot and himself
a shattered wreck is nothing short of
criminal. Marriage is indeed a serious
question.
Next, the salt of common sense is an
important necessity. Since marriage
resolves itself into permanent cove
nant instituted by God, to be broken on
" by death, and not like loose pair of
shoes that can be put on in the morning
and removed at night, it is an issue that
should occupy the mental, the moral,
tile spiritual, the practical and the con-
sequential deductions of all thinking
people to the soberest degree. The civil
law may separate, but it can never
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of history, and about it there is always
a bad SMELL Any one who espouses the
conjugal yoke with the prospect of
divorce ahead weds an ignis fatuus.
Hence a man should choose his wife as
did the sainted Primrose of 'sVicar of
Wakefield" memory, who chose his as
she chose her wedding gown, not for
fine glossy surface, but for qualities that
would wear we'll. A woman is either
the fortune or bankruptcy of mans
future.
IgAll tailors cut the coat according to the
cloth, which suggests how young folks
should consider the circumstances of
each other. 1t is wrong for a strug-
cling young man, without money or in
fhence in the world, to wed a girl Of
atfiuence and wealth, fostered in the lap
of luxury by kind and loving parents,
when the same conditions can not be
extended her in the future; but then it is
wrong for her to encourage such a
young man unless she is willing to share
his struggles and misfortunes as an
equal yoke-fellow and companion. The
word wife means weaver, l. e., a wife
should weave along with her husband
the web of life.
brought up under the present regime Of
society, SO called, who, by indulgent
mothers, become in1bned with false no.
tons, and fritter away their time in
learning useless trifles, until their mus
Giles atrophy and leave them mere auto
nations to pose for the entertainment of
a glass case. They lace, powder, affect
friyols, study how to make conquests,
etc. in short, to assume all the evils OF
prevailing fashion. These creatures die.
young. of tight-lacer's sliver or ennui
Young man, Beware!
There is no object 50 fascinating as a
pretty faced, intelligent woman to COM
mend herself as an eligible candidate
for matrimony, should be useful as well
as ornamental. A model wife is an
economist, breadsayer, while her hus-
band is the bread-winner.
A little domestic drudgery is a home
~ antidote against disease and often
makes fine wife and mother out of a
mere hot-house plant j advise q
thorough knowledge of kitchen econo-
my Dody's Domesticity), for far too
many girls nowadays enter marriage
ong before they have even learned to
spank pepperbox.
Any one who follows this will not go
astray Psiladeli,lti NeOs.