Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-07-18
PLUNKETT ON MARRYING.
THE OLD MAN TELLS WHAT HE
THINKS ABOUT MARRIAGE.

goes on" said Plunkett, as he reached
| for Browns tobacco.
"They married in war times and parted
in an hour, and before the tears Of the
young bride were dry from the parting
the walls of the widow took their place;
but marrying went on, and the Confeder-
ate government would give er fellow er
furlough to go home and marry when he
couldn't get home no other way.
HIS OWN EXPERIENCE.
Young folks will marry and there's
no use in talking to 'em. They won't
take nobody's word erbout this matter,
they are never satisfied till they try it
and then they haint satisfied after they
try and they wouldn't erbin satisfied if
they hadn't er tried. and so it goes, its
natur to think you'd er done better to
have done something that you didn't do
and whatever you do you're sorry you
done it.
every time me and my old oman has
er quarrel she swears that she could er
married $50 fellows that's er heap better
than me and I'm keen to swear that
there wasn't that many unmarried fel-
lows in the whole of Pike in her raising,
but you needn't talk to er woman when
she gets mad with her old man, for it's
natur for 'em to think they could er
married any fellow they wanted and
they're mighty apt to not mention any
fellow in this connection but what has
got to the legislature or done some other
big thing-that is when they're mad.
"Folks that marry do well (sometimes),
but folks that don't marry do er darned
sight better-sometimes But it's my
honest notion that no man ever got
worsted by marrying. The wimin are
the ones who suffer, if there's any suffer-
ing. Er man that don't do well by mar
rying wouldn't have done well no how,
and any man can do well if he's got er
good wife and will make the right start.
There's more in the first year of married
life than in any ten years arter that.
The big thing is to think. Set down on
er log erway out in the woods and study.
Study your own character and your
wife's character and your kin folks
character and her kin folks character
and end it up by swearing, right out
there by yourself and the log. that you
will go to er home of your own If it's er
rail pen covered with wheat straw, and
that you won't deceive your wife in
nothing as you hope for her to not de-
ceive you.
1.-THE first few months OF married life
is mighty nice, very nice, and any fool
in Georgia can have er good time then.
But this marrying business amt for er
few months; it's for life. The pet words
like my little petsy, sugar, apple dump
ling, sorghum lasses and sich have to
give way to sich as I'm not able to get
you er fine pair er shoes, or dress, or hat;
I've not got the money Er few weeks
before was married my sweetheart cut
hereyes at me in admiration, and know
she thought was the biggest fellow in
Pike; but come up to the house sud-
denly er few months arter was mar
ried, and she was singing, and stopped
and listened and caught these words:
"But now he's too small for cr family man.
THAT was enough of that song. l
cleared up my throat and here she come
and took on over me, but couldn't un-
derstand what she was using sich words
as the ones in the song for, and was er
little cold, jist er little, but she noticed
it, and l have realized since that big
streams from little fountains flow, etc.
Never have the first quarrel. l don't
SEQ why everybody don't think of this.
AFTER THE HONEYMOON.
carter the honeymoon comes er season
of more substantial love. The love
songs of the young days greet your ear
as you approach the house.
"And then you've got to take the baby
on your lap and pet it till the wife fixes
the supper, and you're darned glad when
it gets fixed, sometimes Ones enough,
you think-you both think-but never
mind, the day will come when that plump
young mother will have er lot of 'efm
swinging onto her skirts, and it's all right,
it's natur, and you wouldn't be satisfied
without 'em, and children never kept
folks from doing well any more than
marrying did.
GIVE seed Browns wife with seven
erround her bellering and following her
wherever she would 60, with one laying
on er pallet in the middle of the kitchen
kicking up its heels and Growing till the
hound pup would grab the piece of fat
meat from its hands and set it to below
ing too, and wouldn't er been in their
place for all they had, thought: but
another stage has come, and now lool:
upon the same children. fine men and
wimin, and as the old folks SO down the
hill, at every rough place stands one of
these, who reacl, out their hands and
jump them over, and would give the
world to be like 'e.n.
1--WE never know what is best, and we
are more than apt to be dissatisfied with
whatever is, but the start that young
folks make in their early married life has
er heap to do with their future, Men
should keep,on SQUIRTING their wives and
wives should pet their husbands. Little
hugs and kisses between man and wife is
like sweet things among chiidren-they
won't let on but they like it, and if er
young couple will go off in er home of
their own, never let the third party come
into their affairs, spend one 'hundredth
part of the exertion to please each other
as in their counting days, they will be
happy, money or no money, children or
no children-but it's best to have er few"
Sarge in Atlanta Constitution.