Evening journal., 1894-05-26
cHooss From A RuNcH.


II Is the province Of the modern news
paper 60 comment on and advise about
everything The old idea that the news
paper was political machine IS ex ploded.
The newspaper Of to. day is the mentor
and guide for all intelligent people in all
things that secure human happiness aud
advance modern civilization. IL Is not out
Of the way, even, for the modern journal
10 advise young people about marriage.
There Is no modern newspaper which
does not advise AID promote marriage.
Some Of them give advice, merely, while
others 60 to the extreme Of Publishing
notices and arranging meetings. The
EVENING JOURNAL presumes only to ad-
Wise. II never would aud never could
give the Englishmans advice to the
doubtful lover-"Don't." On the con
trary, It advocates marriage because
marriage Is not u failure bat success.
1t isa duty-the highest duty a man has.
the only duty Of a woman. The advice OF
wise Benjamin Franklin, to young man.
was to choose from bunch" but to
choose early BY that he meant that
single peach, no matter how luscious and
beautiful II appears on the tree, was, as a
general thing, not so propitious as
peach plucked from bunch.
The illustration is not so true as the
proposition.
The proposition to choose a
wife from family Of girls
Is far more wise than the
recommendation to pluck single peach
from bunch. 1t is not fact that single
peach may not ripen into all the delicious
lusciousness Of the Delaware favorite
It may be perfectly beautiful to look
upon, spotless in beauty, perfect in
symmetry and delicious TO the taste-in
fact, It is true, often, that the single
peach is better than the peach from a
bunch Bat, this is not trus Of that
most beautiful Of all produets-the human
peach.
As Franklin meant to say she
grows best and sweetest among her
sisters. He meant TO say that the single
peach Of the human family Is apt to be
spoiled, aud that, instead Of being agree.
able, beautiful. amiable and hslpful to
her husband she. If having grown up
petted and pimpsred, will command
rather than obey. Benjamin Franklin
had the old-fashioued idea that those
women who grow up to command are not
so desirable as one who makes at least
an appearance, a bluff, at obeying. She
could, at least, be taught, and she could
have grown up so as to find Il agreeable
and pleasant to yield rather than to
force every body else TO do her bidding
II this rule of plucklng from a bunch
were observed more carefully, there
would be less frequent cases Of that blot
upon modern society-dlvorce. The man
who chooses the peach from the bunch
has the opportunity to observe the char
acteristics, aims and ambitions Of the
other peaches in the bunch. That give.
him better chance TO know how his par
tioular peach will develop In studying
the characteristics Of the other peaohe.
Of the bunch, he can better determine
what are the good and bad qualities Of
the particular peach he thinks he loves
best.
The advice OF the EVENING journal
is that he should start young, make NJ
his mind carefully, choose the particular
peach from the bunch Of peaches that h'
knows best, marry her, love her ant
cherish her TN death do them part Thai
is the advice OF Benjamin Franklin mod
ernizsd aud applied.