The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-10-24
Why Men Don't Marry.

Marriage has lately come to be SO much
less frequent an occurrence comparatively as
to excite general comment CHIEFLY from
the press and pulpit. And the question,
why don't men marry?' has now come to
be heard on every hand. Lately the Rev.
F. A. Holman of ST. Paul, Mimi, has pro-
pounded the conundrum in due form and
answered it according to his own theory.
Assuming that the candidate for domestic
felicity has passed through the vast waste
of hard coal, two-dollar gas, pink ice cream
and matinees, and all the perils of her little
brother, the brindle pup, the paternal boot
and the wreck of several sturdy parlor
chairs, and finally stu mbled into an engage
ment from the scene of which he returns TO
more or less cherries room where he
straightway plunges into chair and medi-
| tation and smoke, the reverend gentleman
pictures him as contemplating the gravity
of the situotion very seriously.
Under the circumstances, Mr.. Holman
thinks. he would be likely to cogiJate soma
thing like this: "Yes, he does think more of
Jenny than he has dreamed. But how is it
to end? Can he marry her and drag her
down to poverty and maternity made hide
GUS by gnawing want and ceaseless care?
Clearly. no. Then, too, what can Jenny do
to help him bear the burden9 Can she
cook, manage a house thriftily, and do even
the drudgery if necessarys Or, if sickness
comes to him, the bread winner, can she
take up the burden where he lays
it down and keep want from
the door9 His inner consciousness
returns a sad negative to these queries
Unhappily, Jenny has been trained in the
art of doing nothing but looking pretty {;
and that she does to perfection. The upshot
of his cogitations is that if he did marry
Jenny he would have to hire another woman
to take care of her, as she certainly could
never take care of herself, to say nothing of
family. He turns out his gas and Jumps
into bed, saying mentally: 'Heigh-ho, l
wish was a rich man; girl like Jenny
should only marry a millionaire And that
dream Is over"
But this young man smokes as he solilo-
quizes in way that would probably make
his dear Jenny very sick if she were present.
Possibly he has many other mildly objec-
tionable and expensive habits which do
hop oSSui W hilh Jueb HOW duu WHICH ne
would be unwilling to relnquish if they
did. Still, he thinks his lot very hard, and
wonders Why girls can't be constructed on
a more economical plan. Instead of Ian
| gushing in sentimental lamentations if he
would turn his attention to adjusting his
outlay to the proportions of his income he
might manage to improve and beautify his
vacant lot as it were
At the same time, there are many women
of the present day who do not deserve to
ever have Enthusiastically good one.
They seem to regard husband as a mere
means of support; sort of animated fau-
Get, from which they may draw money at
will.
! Connubial happiness is essentially based
upon reciprocal concessions, which must be
made to extend to all the common concerns
of the dual existence of the married pair.
from the highest to the most trivial. When
ever men and women are ready to make
such concessions to one another, the minis
ters will reap such a harvest of shekels as
will abolish the somewhat hackneyed dona-
ton party. But that halcyon period, it is
| to be feared, has not yet arrived,