Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-05-12
upon scale it would outweigh 1875
men OF 100 pounds. or more than
Observation-Disclosures Post.
; MARRIAGE A SUCCESS,
A Benedict's Comments on the Advantas,
of Family Life.

a Deneoicts Comments on the Advantages
of Family Life.
lhave carefully and interestedly read
the articles under the headings, why
am Bachelor etc, and it seems to
| me that although the married man is.
to certain extent, handicapped in his
ability to give reasons as to why he is
married, Cor there can be but one
true reason). at the same time, he has.
think, great many more reasons to
advance as to why marriage is not
failure, than the bachelor has to ad-
vance as to why bachelorhood is a
success, and / have been impressed
with the fact that very important
argument in favor of marriage has
been overlooked by its champions:
i. e., the incentive the dependence of
wife and children gives to a man to
spur him on to renewed exertions in
the battle of life.
1t IS certainly not an evaporation
to say that two-thirds of the success
full men OF the present day are mar
RED, and that the majority of them,
at least. would never have attained
success had it not been that they felt
they had the welfare OF others depend
ing upon them. The bachelor who
has only himself to care for is apt to
dislike exertion of any kind and to
drift along with the tide" inclined
to "let well enough alone" happy in
the consciousness that no matter how
desperate affairs may become he can
always take care of himself. whiis, on
the other hand, the married man has
many, many motives to urge him to
attain to prosperity.
First, to look and to do well in the eyes
of his wife and children-that highest
of all ambitions to be of some account
in this world, not for his OWE sake but
for the sake Of those who call him
husband and father No one for an
instant imagines that President Harri-
son thought of himself merely when
he turned and kissed, his wife after
taking the oath as President of the
United States. The action-itself showed
that he was filed with a spirit of
thankfulness, and proud of the fact
that he was so highly honored, for the
sake Of his wife and children; proud.
indeed, that he was her,husband and
their father, a peculiar and all-satisfy-
ing experience bachelor can never
experience. Again: The married man
has the desire to accumulate such
wealth as will ensure his family
against want in the uncertain future,
and the very natural satisfaction he
must feel in seeing his sons and
daughters grow up with all the advan-
tages his wealth (smail though it may
be) can secure to them. And further,
when the bachelor is in trouble and
needs advice, to whom has he to turn
who is so deeply interested in his
affairs as he is HIMSELF No one;
whereas the married man, in his wife
has one who in majority of cases is
not only as deeply, but more deeply,
interested in his welfare than he is,
and her sweet consolation, if not always
her advice, will help the husband to
fight against misfortune and to emerge
triumphant from apparent disaster
where the bachelor will give up with
out struggle.
think that even the bachelor will
acknowledge that the world is all the
better for the astonishing (to them)
prevalence of marriages, for in the
proportion that men try honestly to
better their condition, to that extent
are the interests of the world adj
vanced and the higher the civilization.
Cor. Philadelphia Press.