The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1892-07-21
MATRIMONY AND SENSE,
Male Fools Rush Into Harness Free
Quently Without Serious Con-
Sideration.

Male Fools Rush Into Harness Free
quently Without Serious Con-.
sideration.
The wise man of theories does not
marry, and he manages his wife only
on paper. The man who marries
must be still wiser. In the first place,
have it clear in your mind what you
marry g. woman for. A man is too
apt to marry a woman for the charm
forsomethingthat is going to be imprac-
ticable as q wife, and then to fret be-
cause she doesn't change around and
develop the charm he wants in the
wife. All that, according to writer
in the Omaha Bee, is fool idiocy. Re-
member the woman does not change
entirely when she becomes a wife,
and you must look to her companion
ship along the lines for which YOU
chose her, and not expect that because
she pleased you in one way as wom-
an, she is going to please you, or to
even want to please you, in every
other way as q wife. Men seldom
pick out domestic, gentle, quiet little
creatures for wives. Yet once they
are married they realize that the
domestic, gentle, quiet little creature
is the ideal wife, and they kick
because their fascinating coquette,
their stunning horsewoman, their
brilliant woman of ideas, their dear
little inconsequent baby woman does
not at once develop the home traits
of the ideal wife, You have got to
keep up the atmosphere she needs.
The average wife, so have observed,
tries hard to adopt herself to the new
requirements that the man she mar
ries makes as a husband, but you
must help her. She is not going to
plan pretty rigs and make a point OF
looking sweet if you don't say some
thing about it. All the little, caress-
ing, pretty, fetching tricks she used to
have are going to drop of if you don't
encourage them. I you are going to
kick about the biscuit instead OF being
interested in your wife's book or pic
ture or play, your clever wife is going
to be pretty miserable and quite at
sea. Besides, think what dis
appointment you are to her probably
and be humble in your mind.
Thirty Voters in WashingtDn's Time
R. L. Barton, of Winchester, Va,
recently read a paper before the Vir-
glnia Historical society, entitled 4'The
First Election OF Washington to the
Virginia House Of Burgesses.'' From
this it appears that political methods
then did not greatly differ from those
sof the present day, and the rum DOW
'er, then as now, was an active factor.
I'm 1857 Washington was ONE OF the
three candidates torepresent FEEDER
dck county, Virginia, in the house OF
hurgesses. Although ne had recently
achieved the distinction of having
sawed the remnant of Bradld ock's
army from annihilation, Washington
WAS mot able to overcome the re-
Wengetul opposition OF one Limdley,
Whose license to keep an ordinary had
been opposed by the young colonel,
Washington was badly beaten, reoeiv-
Ing ONLY forty votes to the 271 and
27O votes east for his opponents.
Nevertheless, the next year Washing
tom again essayed to serve his coun-
trymen at Richmond. The election
came off on July "a, and Washington
got $40 votes, or seventy more than
were cast for the next hishest candi-
date. 1t is related that the fu-
ture father OF his country in this cam
paign had to foot bill Of election ex-
penses OF $195, the chief items 81
which were "a hogshead and Il barrel
OF punch, thirty-fve gallcns Of wine.
forty-three gallons of strcng cider and
dinner for bis friends" Kansas City
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