Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1886-04-08
HOW TO MARRY.
A Treatise That Should Be Read by Every
Young Fellow Seeking u Sweetheart.

A Treatise That Should Be Read by Every
Young Fellow Seeking u Sweetheart.
From the Philadelphia News.
The following is Philadelphia ply
sician's advice to a young man pros
pecting for wife.
When the adult age is reached
what? As truly as every positive re-
quires a negative, every knife it's fork
and that opposites attract, so, too,
with the genus 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 a
sweetheart and then have q wedding
day. Now, TO choose a proper wife
and companion is hepuzzle of puzzles
in every mans experience. Some
choose for beauty, others for accom-
plishments and Establishments, some
for wit and manners, and 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
!
wealth can not buy happiness; it may
contribute to its existence, but hap
piness Is an attribute beyond pur-
chase.
AS physical adviser, no marriage
should occur unless both contracting
parties are healthy subjects; to be
good animal is the highest gift in ma
! ture. A marriage has vast responsible
ity, Ringing upon it thefu procrea-
ton of our species, the perpetuation
of the human family; therefore no man
wants to become the father of a race of
pigmies or deformed dwarfs-physica
cripples, to the disgrace of himself, his
wife and his progeny-God Forbid
Let n man consider this well. First of
all, then, see that the prospective wife
be n 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 i'll their heart OF
hearts that their daughters are sub
iect to organic diseases. This is to be
I severely deprecated and frowned down
upon wherever and whenever seen. On
the other hand, the presumptive swain
who contemplates Hymens knot and
himself shattered wreck is nothing
short of criminal. Marriage is in
deed serious question.
Next, the salt of common sense is an
important necessity. Since marriage
resolves itself into n permanent COW
enant instituted by God, to be broken
only by death, and not like q 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, the spiritual, the
practical and the consequential de-
auctions of all thinking people to the
soberest degree. The civil law may
separate, but it can not sever. A
divorce is blot on the page of histo-
~, and about it there is always a bad
smell. Any one who espouses thecon-
iugal yoke with the prospect OF di-
vorce ahead weds an ignis fatuus.
Hence man should choose his vile
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 quail
ties that would wear well. A woman
is either the fortune or the bankrupt
cy of mans future.
All tailors cut the coat according TO
the cloth, which suggests how young
folks should consider the circumstance
es of each other. 1t is wrong for
struggling young man without money,
to wed a girl of affiuence and wealth,
fostered in the lap OF luxury by fond
and loving parents, when the same
conditions can not be extended to her
in the future; but then it is wrong for
her to encourage such young man
unless she is willing to share his strug-
giles and misfoltunes as an equal yoke
fellow and companion. The word
wife means weaver, j. e., q 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.
tions,a land fritter away their time learn
inguseless trihes, until their muscles at
rophy and leave them mere automa-
tons to pose for the entertainment of
a glass case. They lace, POWDER af-
feet frivols, study how to make con-
quests, etc; in short, to assume all
the evils of prevailing fashion. These
creatures die young of tight-lacer' liv-
er or ennui. Young man bewarel
There isno object SO fascinating as
pretty-faced, intelligent woman, bat
then woman to commend herself as
an eligible candidate for matrimony
should be useful as well as ornamen-
tai. A model wife is an economist, q
bread-saver, while her husband is the
bread-winner.
A little domestic drudgery is home
ly antidote against disease and often
makes fine wife and mother out of
mere dollhouse plant. advise a
thorough knowledge Of kitchen econo-
my (Dody's Domesticity), for far too
many girls nowadays enter marriage
long before they have even learned to
spank n pepperbox.
Any one who follows this counsel
willnot go astray.
"SILvER GRAY"
/ I al.