The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-12-03
MONEY AND MATRIMoNY.

Money generally leads to matrimony;
that is TO say, Leiresses generally get hus-
bands But whether money helps matri-
nlouy to fulfill its objects is 4 question. On
last Wednesday, young Boston girl of -,
named May Pratt, married one Of the best
known of BostOn's gilded youth. Fifteen
years ago, the young lady's grandfather
died leaving her trife of $1,000, eco. to be
tied up til she married or became 81 years
OF age. On the approach Of her nuptials,
Ler trustees deemed fit TO render their ac-
counts. They showed her to be the uneon-
ditional possessor Of So, 900, 600, judiciously
invested in income bearing property. II
almost takes ones breath away to think of
these two young people, who are little more
than boy and girl, having an income of
probably not less than 81, 80, 900 year to
spend, say 100000 a month, no state to
keep up, and 10 probable danger Of their
property ever becoming less.
But their friends. if they have foresight
and knowledge Of the world, will be con-
cerned to reflect that the possession of such
vast wealth is in itself an element not of
concord but OF discord. Cares grow with
property; every fresh acquisition furnishes
new chance OF friction. When young peO-
pie marry on a mere livelihood, they have
little TO divert them from the business Of
loving; they are all in all to each other, and
their very unsatisfed wants furnish each of
them with something to hope for in the
future, in order to increase the others hap
piuess. Whereas, the millionaire and mill
iOnairess have a hundred objects Of care
and s0licitude which divert their minds
from the contemplation of each other. They
have town houses, and country houses, and
lands, and yachts, and travels, and jewelry,
aud entertainments, and investments to
think Of; and on every one Of these differ
enCes OF opinion may arise, which may ripen
into controversies and degenerate into quar-
Tels. They labor under the tremendous dis
advantage of having no wish that cannot be
gratifed. And the life of a human being
without Iongings is a Efe without hope or
SAVIOR.
1t has been the good or the evil fortune of
this city 10 grow an unprecedented crop of
rich men in its forty years of existence.
From these rich men have sprung race of
young men ana young women who began
life az their fathers ended it-with pro-
diglous wealth. From the necessities of the
case, these involuntary possessors Of riches
have become the cynosure of eyes on malri-
mony bent. Every pretty girl secretly
expects to marry man who can live with
out work; every good looking and we'll
hammered young fellow is on the lookout
for an heiress. The result is very bad in
deed, and its evil fruits are already appar-
emit The boys drift into old bachelorhood,
with a prospect of Grabbed old age; the
girls miss the chance Of becoming the loved
wives Of honest men and the mothers of
happy children. They are so bent on mar
Tylug money that some OF them do not marry
at all.
The natural destiny Of young people is to
marry when they are poor and to rely upon
the reward Of the husbands labor for lodp-
ing and bread. It is in such unions that the
truest happiness is found. Work is the
surest guarantee for enjoyment in life
steady, unremitting. conscientious work,
which hardly ever fails to command its re-
ward. The woman who marries Young
man with an income that is only made suf-
lent for their support by dnt of fore
thought and economy may not be able TO
wear as fine dresses as her sister who
espOused a millionaire's son, but she has
much surer prospect of happiness in life,
much less chance Of domestic jars, and far
smaller danger OF divorce. Life is like a
rolling prairie; valley succeeds upland,
and hill follows level plain; he who starts
out to cross it from a height is apt TO find
himself in hollow before the end of the
day. While he who sets out from bottom
land may reach an eminence by night. The
rich young man and his rich young wife
cut gorgeous figure when they return
from the honeymoon and call in their car
riaPe upon tue poor sister Sho is living in a
small fiat; but it is not so sure that. when
their heads are gray, it VIII not be the poor
sister who is riding in the carriage, and the
broken-down ex-millionaire who is occupy
ing the fiat. Money comes, IN this country,