Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-02-10
Ma,ioa HarIand on Matrimonial For
tune Hunters--Many are Guilty.,
but Few viii Acknowledge.
Girls Who Have "9arri6d Weli"-Nhr-
rYipg On Nothing-Why the Mid
die Glasses DO Not Marry
Husbands on Allowances from wives.
The Sin of Marrying for
fortunes Sake
Copyrighted, 1851

body.
When Thackeray, with his Characters
tic violation of conventional expediency,
msde Henry Esmond say, with naive
seriousness, of Lady Csstleton, "She hsd
been listening st the door," howl Of
repYobAtion arose from critics Of both
sexes, profes -ional and amateur. he hsd
lowered the object of his alteration below
the average OF common chsmbernaid-
or so it was declared. When Mrs .Candor
ayers unolush!ngly, "My eye caught a
sentence in the open letter that aroused
my curiosity, and l read the whole
Of it," her bosom friend, although delec-
tsted by the scandal revealed by the act,
must look shocked and murmur deprecst.
ingly, or suffer in her own estimation.
When Amelia cannot refrain from wbis
periDg to Resale the secret conhded to
her IN er solemn promise OF secrecy by
Eugenia, she defends The betrayal to her
conscience by saying: est was told me
in sGrickest confidence, bat you know,
dear, don't consider that violate my
pledge by hintiGg it 10 you, from whom
hide nothing"
The queer part Of tho laboriously-&
farce is that the only person deceived is
the sinner herself. Lady Castleton's
caves dropping did not burden her sweet,
white soul. Mrs. Caudor says boldly,
"Anybody else would have done the same
in the same circumstances" If she be
shreWd she adds: "The only difference
between people with characters and with
out is in the amount they confess"
Amelia does not avoid betrayed Eugenis's
eyes at their next meeting, says her pray=s
ers with heart as single and voice as ae-
vout as if Resale were not privately con
Iicting her Of perjury. -
So-whoever did marry for money!
The thing is so odiOus, the treacheryfs
cheat-sscrilege- abominSble That no
man or woman who cares for reputation,
or has even 8 nominal regard for social
deeencies, will admit the charge at the
tribunal ef self-consciousness. The ti'le
. # "fortuue-hunter" is as libellous as that
of Coward" and he who deserves It eX.
erts ingenuity and glCzas over circum-
stantial evidence in interpretive redec-
ton to clear his soul of the stigma.
The heiress of his selection has really
no present fortune, as the daughter Of
rich father msy inherit nothing in the long
run. OK, il she hold her wealth in her
own right, che would be prize were she
peuniless.
In that unlucky event he would have
contr lied his manly affections, as the
whole world knows and says sneeringly
, behind his back, however he may hood
!. wink himself. The right OF q man to
= fall in love witch rich girl or the child
q of wealthy house Is as patent as King
a Cophetua's to WOO the beggarmaid.
: Cupid's freaks may IS well take one turn
as smother. In the teeth OF the doughty
: assertion, the world continues 70 shrug
significant shoulders.
!. To shrug and sneer and snsrl, and yet
!; become, with parents and friends, Access
= sorry to the unho1y commerce.
. "Dinna wed for siller's sake. 'Twad
a be unco' sinful, ye kep," said pious
Scotch father to his son. "But see to it
q that ye gae where slller is !"
q We may feel twinge Of regret, but we
n have ceased to feel shocked when we
hear the marriage of two ardent young
y people spoken of as "a genuine, old
| fashioned love match, such as one seldom
= hears OF in this day" Nor are we
n righteouslY indignant st the compassion
= ate smile that accompanies the implied
p slur.
' One direct question will prove the truth
n of the assertion. What do we mean
e when we say that girl has "married
G well?" Given tolerable suitable age,
J. fair character, health, and disposition,
II the commentator has but one generally
II accepted Interpretation, as any candid
J, reader will admit.
l. heard an eminent theologian use the
e words the other day, in answer to con-
g sr&tulEtions on his daughters marriage
IS "She has, indeed, married magnificent
e ly!" he subjoined aside to an intimate
n friend. 81 could ask nothing better for
e her, thank God!"
Meeting the son-il-law subsequently,
d the friend saw an uneducated man OF
: mean stature, ignoble vissge, boorish de-
h pertinent, and less than mediocre intel
A lect. But he has inherited the N llions
Of self made father, and cunning enough
to turn them over to advantage.
Another bridegroom was so repulslve
J. in aspect that one revolted at the contrast
q with his fair, majestic bride. He wore 6
% wig, ard his senile grin would have been
p less disagreeable had he employed dental
y skill also; he WAS squat in figure; his
scanty beard was q grizzled red, his face
notified and freckled into the complexion
Of a gUoseberry roley-poley, and he was
thirty years his wiie's senior.
- "We feel very h.ppy about our darling"
said the tender mother, with glistening
eyes. "She has chosen moro ludiciously
. thsn do most girls Of her age"
e The father, as well pleased, expressed
j. his satisfaction in different sort.
i; "Not much TO look at" he admitted to
!. crony, "but he has st least 500 for
/. every freckle!n
n We All say, and We all mean one thing
e by such comments, and that Is to swell
It the applause due him-or her-who does
e good unto him-or herself. The
l. satisfaction of parents has bssis OF
}, natural and praiseworthy regard for their
8 child's well-beipg. II they are poor and
she has had a hard bringing-up, they covet
It ease and smoother pathway for her. In
Il the maternal heart there is fierce claim
}, on these as her daughters right
4 in life, her lawful share OF the
e sunshine and ease and prosperity
s which aye chief among the world
e good things. II she has been brought up
in sfiuence, there arises an loutcry from
home and society against the cruelty OF
altering her circumstances, the selfish
ness of him who would drag her down TO
the level of the working classes. The IN.
% considerate swain, who, for loves sake,
hiss proposed the wrong, fiuds himself In
q the position of Trsddles, when, after
4 Jacobs seven years of waiting, he offered
" the humble home wrupg from Fate's
: tight fist to the "dearest girl in the