Mexico weekly ledger., 1886-04-29
ABOUT MARRIAGE.
Advice to Those About to Slip on the
Matrimonial Moose.

Some marry for the fun of the
thing and never see where it comes
in. This is discouraging.
Some marry for the sake of good
companion and never discover their
mistake. This is lucky.
1t is better to have comely ''help-
meet" of some use than brilliant
one simply of 'some pumpkins
Man is a tickle ''critter." Even
Adam, who had his wife made to or
der, found more or less fault with
her.
Don't marry a man for his reputa-
ton. 1t is liable to be only second
hand affair, borrowed from his an
cestors.
Many women have married men
for their fine exterior. But that's all
there is to an ancient egg worth mem
tioning.
Many marry to spite some one
else only to learn that they got the
butt-end of the transaction, and its
worst end at that.
Marriage is lottery full of chances.
That's what gives it flavor. All like
to chance it, because everybody
thinks to win 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.
1 say when you are ready to get
married, get married. However, 1t
isn't so much trouble to get married
as to know when you want to get
married
The hot-headed youth marries in a
hurry because he fears manageable
females will be scarce next year, and
lives to wonder how the supply holds
out.
Marriage resulting from love at
first sight is not generally welded
bliss on par with sour milk. One
or the other gets swindIed, and often
both.
The single bedstead plan is not to
the credit Of either man or woman
1t looks lonesome and selfish. Single.
blessedness is suspicious and in turn
suspected.
Many man has married for beauty,
only to learn that he paid $40 fol
what can be purchased for 25 cents
at all druggists. This is hard.
The most affectionate people be-
fore marriage seldom hold out in the
same proportion after the knot is
tied. 1t is better philosophy to CON-
mence only as you would live after
ward.
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 really the true COM
fort there is in it.
Don't marry woman for her taper
fingers and lily hands alone, for mar
risd life and its rugged experiences
call for a wife that knows how to
make pot boil and can spank babies
systematically.
But few people marry for pure
love, and they in after years suspi-
cion that what were at the time
promptings of the tender passion
were, in all probability, but the first
symptoms of cholera morbus.
The man who marries woman
simply because she is a handy ar
rsngement to have about the house
does SO from purely business stand
point, and in the end, if not compell-
ed to support him, she has done bet
ter than many women l know of.
Many 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 pos
terity that, although fair transaction
upon the face of it, yet it is just as
liable to be a put-up job.