Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1888-03-12

of the opposition and ridicule which
rained down upon our devoted heads,
and now, as the years lease is draw
ing to a close, has no cause TO regret
the act.
"Boston doctors consider it pro-
fessional policy to live in certain
STYLE" said the relatives.
"They also consider it professional
policy not to marry until late in life,
or, when they do so, to consider the
dot carefully beforehand" was my
reply; and the doctor said it was a
very open question whether physi-
clan got better start in a modest or
fashionable neighborhood, and cit
ed number of instances in which his
friends in the large cities had the
pleasure of spending their days in
their fashionable apartments, while
he was attending to the needs of good
honest people who called him in be-
cause he lived near them.
After few months the doctor
came to Boston, and somehow-no
one could tell how he managed it
took wife back with him. When
the feat was accomplished the rela-
tives came forward handsomely with
silver and gold, china and glassware
toward the small housekeeping.
Now the point of my letter is to
encourage as many young people to
get married and 60 to housekeeping
upon what their Boston relatives tell
them is impossible to exist upon.
They need not expect a smooth road
before or after they decide to take
their own heads about their own af-
fair; but if they are sure they prefer
a happy home and the real joys of
life to a vain struggling after their
neighbors' standards, they will never
regret having tried our experiment.
You will be told that your house is
too small that you are uncomforta-
BILE, hot and unhealthy that your
neighborhood is common, your street
a poor one aud the view from your
front window obnoxious. But you,
being supremely happy and content
ed, can afford to smile and go on
your way as before. You will find
there is nothing like a small house
for bringing out ingenuity and con-
triving faculty in both men and wo-
men and nothing like living in an
questionable neighborhood for sift-
ing out the genuine from the sham
among your friends and acquaintanc-
es, and it turns out in the end that
the people of real distinction and
prestige in the community will be
those who will appreciate you for
yourself and encourage your indie
pendence by their friendship. Then
there is nothing like working up by
your own endeavors, and people are
sure to respect you more for SO do
ing than if you should accept the fa-
vors which they almost force upon
you.
Now and then, when our relatives
attacks grow hot, we speak of return
ing to Germany, where our simple
mode of life would be all right be-
cause "they are in Europe, and peo-
pie can live just as they please in
Europe, you know but this seems
cowardly, for we have theory that
if people are only enough in love with
their principles they can live just as
they please in free America also.
If you are sure you can be superior
to little annoyances in the conscious
ness of the right, and that your aspi-
rations are for something higher than
houses and something |
better than fashionable surroundings, |
yon will be very happy to end your
ong engagement and go to house
keeping as we did.