Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1886-04-09
LAFAGAN's LOGIC.
MARRIAGE
Is the offspring of Heaven.

Is the offspring of Heaven.
If you marry for love and make a ~
keep cool: don't blow about il.
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 mis-
take. This is lucky.
II is better TO have "a comely help
meet Of some use than a brilliant one
simply Of "some pumpkins.
Man is IA tickle "crtter" Even
Adam, who had his wife made to order
found more or less fault with her.
Don't marry a man for his reputation.
1t is liable 10 be only secondhand af-
fair, borrowed from his ancestors.
Many women have married men for
their fine exterior. But that's all there
is TO an ancient egg worth mentioning
Many marry 10 spite someone else
only to learn that they got the butt-end
of the transaction, and lis worst end at
that.
Marriage is lottery full of chances
That what gives it flavor. All like to
chance it, because everybody thinks u
win prize
Wedlock, in its original state, was as
pure a. sweet milk fresh from the COW,
but man couldn't rest until he stripped
it of much of lis rich cream
! say when You are ready TO get mar :
ried get married. However il isn't so
much trouble 10 get married as To know
when YOU want TO get married.
The hot-hcaded youth marries in
hurry because he fears marriageable fe-
males 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 a
par with sour milk. One or the other
gets swindled, and often both.
The singlr-bedstead plan is not to the
credit Of either man or woman. 1t
looks lonesome and selfish Single
blessedncss i suspicious and in turn
suspected.
Many man has married for beauty,
only to learn that he paid ten dollars
for what can be purchased for twenty,
five cents at the druggists This isl
hard
marriage seldom hold out in the same
proportion after the knot is tied 1t is
better philosophy TO commence only as
You would live afterward
From the matrimonial market the
saints of both sexes were cullcd out lonx
ago. Don't expect to marry one. Yo
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, bat in the majority of instances
the boot j. on the other foot and she is
the only true comfort there is in it.
Don't marry woman for her taper
fingers and lily hands alone, for mar
ried life and it, rugged experiences call
Tor wife that knows how 10 make the
pot boil and can spank babies systematic
cally.
But few people marry for pure love,
and they in after wears suspicion that
what was at the time supposed prompt
ngs Of the tender passions We're, in all
probability, but the first symptoms of
cholera morbus
The man who marrics a woman sim
ply because She is a handy arrangement
TO have about the house, does so from
purely business standpoint, and in the
end, if not compelled to support him,
she has done better than many women
| know OF.
Many a man who Ina, 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 po,terity that, although
a fair transaction upon the face OF 1t,
yet it is just A. liable to be a put up job.
= Chicago Lcdger.