Morris tribune., 1886-04-14
HOW TO MARRY.
A Treatise That Should BE Read by Eve
Young Fellow Seeking q Sweetheart.

The following is Il Philadelphia ply
sician's advice to a young man pros
pecting for 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 gendtS
homo, like birds they must mate, and it
is not good for man to be alone. The
great event of Il mans life is to seek
and secure Il sweetheart and then have
a wedding day. Now, to choose a proper
wife and companion is the puzzle in
every man experience. Some choose
for beauty, others for accomplishments
and blandishmentS, some for wit and
manners, ;,;.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 Il physical adviser, no marriage
should occur unless both contracting
parties are healthy subjects; to be
good animal is the highest gift in nat
ure. A marriage has vast responsible
ty, hinging upon it the future procrea-
ton of our species, the perpetuation Of
the human family; therefore no man
wants to become 4 father of a race of
pigmies or deformed dwarfs-physical
cripples, to the disgrace of himself his
wife and his progeny - God forbid!
Let a 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
ic 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
shattered wreck is nothing short of a
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 a 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
sever A divorce is a blot on the page
of history, and about it there is always
a bad smell. Any one who espouses the
coniugal yoke with the prospect of
divorce ahead weds an ignis fatuus.
Hence man should choose his wife as
did the sainted Primrose of "Vicar 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 OF bankruptcy of a mans
future.
All tailors cat 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
fihence in the world, to wed girl of
affluence 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., wife
should weave along with her husband |
the web Of life.
There are too many young girls |
brought up under the present regime Of |
society, SO called, who, by indulgent |
mothers, become imbued with false no.
tons, and fritter away their time in |
learning useless trifles, until their mus |
cles atropby and leave them mere auto
nations to pose for the entertainment of |
a glass case. They lace, powder, affect
frivols, study how to make conquests,
etc. in short, to assume all the evils Of
prevailing fashion. These creatures die.
young of tight-lacer' eliver or ennui.
Young man, Beware!
There is no object so fascinating as q
pretty-faeed, 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 home
ly gntidote against disease and often
makes fine wife and mother out of a
mere hot-house plant. | advise. q
thorough knowledge of kitchen econo-
my Oody's Domesticity), for far too
many girls nowadays enter marriage
long before they have even learned to
spank pepperbox,
Any one who follows this will not go s
astray. Phtlddelf)ltid NeaOs.
81 was born q Protestant. / was bred