The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-07-12
should an Educated Lady Marry an
Uneducated Gentleman.

should an Educated Lady Marry an
Uneducated Gentleman:
Dear H. L. C.-My times here again
10 write, and as Sunset wishes us TO
discuss her question, l win comply and
see what ] can say on the subject TO
please her. She is one of my favorites
Should an educated lady marry an
uneducated gentleman or vice versa?
No, decidedly no; if she does, very like
~ she will regret her folly as long as
she lives and pronounce marriage a
failure bitter as wormwood and sigh for
the good old days when she was free
and did not understand the world and
its occupants as she does now She has
no affinity and no taste in common with
her chosen companion; there is always
an unfulflled desire In her life. an un-
Eatisfedf longing, that her husband
knows nothing Of. He has no aspira-
:ions beyond medioerity, though he may
be kind. i1dulgent husband and try
TO make lie as happy and bright as
much as in his power lies; yet there, is
something lacking that money nor
power cannot purchase. And unless she
IS one of those happy constituted per-
sons VIII. accept life as il comes and
stances the viii lead disappointed life.
And hoy sad II Is TO see a young wife
dragged down Gf she marry an inferior
TO her husbands level A wife never
raises her husband Of ne is unworthy
to her standing in life. She either rises
or sinls 10 his station.
To Illustrate, some years ago the
belle # our village, a wealthy, lovely
roll adt
in tn cream Of the social world had
Numerous eligible suitors, and to still
fartrr enhance their daughters matri-
mOnbl opportunities royal entertain
ment were given and education, wealth
and beauty gathered at her home and
she was the bright star sought after
BIZ what was her parents bitter an
gun one morning TO find their lovely
chill had flown in the dark hours of the
nigt with noted gambler of the black
estdye, beneath her in every quality of
mid and heart, as well as in education
H was an outcast in society but this
folish young girl likely imagined as her
hsband he would be welcomed where
Sc formerly was queen; if he was a
embler and a drunkard she would eIe-
ate him TO her social scale; certainly
tr friends would not slight her husbandl
But no; society judged him by the light
II his misdeeds and could not tolerate
that type of a swindler Gradually she
sank to his level and to drown the bitter
dregs Of the thought, / am a scOundrels
wife, and so looked upon by the world
she became addicted to the flowing bowl
and all its accomplishments of horror.
Her parents tried 10 reclaim her and
gave her a home and their influence to
shield and help her begin life over again.
However, il was of no avail, though she
had left her husband years. she could
not live without something TO intoxicate.
And now she. that once was so lovely and
fair and educated, the idol of loving
parents. and the envied because she was
blessed seemingly with the choicest gifts
nature best0ws to make life an ideal
summer dream. so fallen and degraded,
beyond all power TO turn back, and all
through marrying an unprincipled I'M
educated and evil-minded man. with tne
( idea OF elevating him and having the
world look upon him in the light they
would look upon any man who became
the husband Of the petted child of for
tune that she was.
In this instance evil habits did az much
as non-education to wreck this young
lady's life: yet repeat an educated
person should not marry an entirely I'M