Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1891-08-21
PLUNKETT ON MARRYING.
THE OLD MAN TELLS WHAT He
THINKS ABOUT MARRIAGE.

with Young and Old Eyes.
Hard times or good times marrying
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 err
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 il
they hadn't er tried, and so 1t 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 fell
lows in the whole of Pike in her raising,
but you needn't talk to err 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
r IL
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. Err 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 SIGH have to
| give way to SIGH as I'm not able to get
you er fine pair er shoes, or dress, or hat;
I've not got the money. Err few weeks
before | was married my sweetheart cut
her eyes at me in admiration, and l 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 l caught these words:
But now he's too small for er family man.
THAT was enough Of that song.
cleared up my throat and here she come
and took on over me, but | couldn't I'M
derstand what she was using SIGH words
as the ones in the song for, and l was Ell
little cold, jist er little, but she noticed
it, and | have realized since that big
streams from little fountains flow, etc.
Never have the first quarrel | don't
see why everybody don't think of this.
AFTER THE HONEYMOON.
"Arter the honeymoon comes er season
Of a 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 err lot of 'em
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
, GROUND her bellering and following her
wherever she would go, 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 err been in theiF
place for all they had, thought; but
another stage has come, and now look
upon the same children, fine men and
) wimin, and as the old folks go down the
hill, at every rough place stands one Of
. these, who reach out their hands and
Jump them over, and would give the
, world to be like 'em.
: 1--WE never know what is best, and we
are more than apt to be dissatisfied with
whichever 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 counting their wives and
; wives should pet their husbands. Little
hugs and kisses between man and wife Ii
r like sweet things among children-they
won't let on but they like it, and if el
: young couple will 60 off in er home Of
( their own, never let the third party come
u into their affairs, spend one hundredtt
part of the exertion to please each Other
! as in their counting days, they will bC
e happy, money or no money, children Of
t no children-but it's best to have er few.
j Sarge in Atlanta Constitution.