Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1886-02-12
Not a Candidate for Matrimony

have Just read Mr.. Talmage's SER
mon on the subject of marrying,
some of it is good and some is bad.
The gist of the whole matter with
him is "be cautions" This is, in my
opinion, all wrong, say to you now,
young man, be rash, go in, marry,
marry early, marry often and if need
be just keep on marrying, there is
nothing like it, viz. there is nothing
like missing it. Don't preach eau
ton to me, it is a delusion, a hallu-
cination, the absurd shadow ola wild
mans dream. Marry young man,
marry anybody, any virtuous wo,-
man is too good for you. Don't look
for perfection, you will never find 1t,
neither would you know what to do
with it if you were accidentally TO
stagger on 1t. Anything but bach
elor life. III had my life to live
over, l would sooner take my chances
with regular she devil, vixen,
shrew, spit-tire, woman who
would sling the cats and pots around
three fourths of her time, if III the
calm hours of the other fourth she
would only sew on a few buttons.
, Marry, young man, marry, look at
me, look into my wardrobe, see the
, seventeen hundred dollars worth OF
good clothes hanging there-button,
Q less, with every gusset, band and
| seam ripped like Maj. MurrelPs re-
S publicanism, from "Sheol TO Hammer
T. door,"
e Mr.. Talmage, living as he does, il
s a proud city, the petted child of for
t tune, hearing every trump of fame
s drinking from every cup of joy, be
y loved by his brethren, can afford t.
p SIT back and cry caution. But lie
j. him wander off in the lone hours o
It midnight, when all the world !
G pulseless TO dingy room, sad, soil
n tary. all alone, throw himself upoI
C his humble couch and thy to sleeI
y and when he finds himself deserte
1 by the sleep god, get up, 60 to hi
d window and gaze for hours out upo
II the silent stars that seem to mock hi
re very loneliness, and then go back a
ID alone to his couch and preach cat
IL ton ifhe can. No, no, young man,
lie thousand times no. Marry, hit G
ID miss, marry if you know how.
ut confess never knew how TO MARI.
Il. | have been scared to death all IN
lie life in the presence of the women
ID have loved. The rustic of a piece
OF calico scares me worse than the clio
err of derringer or the CLEAN of a bow
1t ie-knife. l have loved repeatedly, o
iv ten, "not wisely, but too WELL" an
ut seriously, l would sooner attempt
ep sleep in the crater of volcano
in hug to my bosom nest of rattl
ne snakes, than to tell girl loved he
ly seriously never could tell why it
mt some persons have so little ambitiC
MT on the subject of marrying, wi
as they are so easily suited, why 1t is
m great sweet faced girl, who ought
ny marry congressman, will go al
I'd throw her life away with a man wi
ed is no more fitted to be life cOmpa
nd ion for her than am to be an ang'
a But don't want to marry, new
bit did, and possibly am not capable
r. give advice on this subject. Butt
I'd hate to see the friends of my yout
iv and even ofmy manhood, waste the
lis lives marrying men and women wi
ret are not their equals. l believe
ell love, there is nothing on earth Ii
re it. IT'S kind of pleasant unea
to ness, that makes men go onward
ry deeds of glory. can see how a m
NV can grow very fond of pure swt
his woman. Yea, verify, can see he
w dreamy man like myself can 10
ais even an ideal woman-love her
ell down to death and even out into
nd dream beyond. But how man C
got become infatuated with
he Hold on, here comes voter.
ur, HIRAM