The Frankfort roundabout. [volume] (Frankfort, Ky.) 1882-1908, 1892-12-03
QUESTIONS
Propounded and Answered.

n young iduy OF CnlS Guy, WHO hds
n proposal of marriage under con-
sideration from young man i'm a
large city, whose salary is 500 a
month, said the other day: IT don't
know what to do. | love him, but 1
fear that it will be impossible to live
on his salary and do not think there
are any prospects whatever for an
increase Of his income. What ought
a lady to do under such circuna-
stances?"
Acknowledgements upon the quail
ty and strength of your love and
your force OF character what course
you should take. If you cannot
make up your mind to the fact
that cottage aud halfrations with
him will give You greater happiness
than brown stone front and every
pleasure that wealth and high social
position command, you had better
pause before you take the final leap
and try the test of time and absence.
The salary mentioned will doubtless
oblige you to practice much self
denial but You ought not to expect a
young man to begin where your
parents are ready to end
If you love him as You say yon do,
the very act of self sacrifice will in
crease your happiness. Much Of the
pleasures that yon now deem nee
essary to your happiness will not fnd
any favor with You after marriage.
Instead of ennni, which probably
overtakes you at frequent intervals,
your every nnoment will be filed with
duties which love will make delight.
ful and cause you to forget that they
are performed by the slow passing of
the minutes into hours, for which in
your present state you wonld commit
murder by killing time killing the
hours and opportunities of the most
precious part of yonr life. Marriage
is the proper sphere for both man and
woman, but a woman who has a
chance to marry a worthy man, and
fears that she cannot give up for
him any of the opportunities of her
single life, ought to remember that rs
q rule man can better afford to re- |
main unmarried than the woman;
that the gradual dissolution of the |
family circle by the death Of the par
ents. The marriage and separation of
brothers and sisters, does not make
a man half as dependant on woman
as it makes a woman dependant on a
man. This, If the motive of working |
to the high aims of love and home, is
not sufficient, should inspire woman
with courage to marry man, who
though not able to support his wife
in the style in which she has been
accustomed to living, will yet ON 500
a month, have sufficient to provide
for her real needs and still leave
small sum for an occasional recrea-
tion or health diversion.
why 10 ~ PAoy VIC" many hoFO
written marriage failure on the
idea that it brings monotony in life
which paralyzes the brain and rem
ders both husband and wife stupid
and digs in mutual dislike the grave
of love that was thought to have
eternal Life? The same monotony
exists in every phase of life, and if
is less in married than in
single life. The duties Of the married
state, if they fnrnish constant occu-
patton for the couple and are per-
'ormed cheerfully as sensible people
Who love each other should discharge
heir mutual obligations, will not
cave enough idle time for the mind
% feel the deadly poison of life's
monotony.
The question was asked at a party
he other night why 1t was that when
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