The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1895-10-18
Tho Dettcr fItlf Question.
r. l.. SIMMS.

There are few young men who do not
expect to achieve some degree Of success
or greatness during the course OF their
lives. The young man who entertains
this ambition should keep a weather eye
open on the question Of matrlmony Ii
might be thrown out as matter OF id-
vice that every young man ought TO
marry with the Idea that he might be-
come famous some day The girl VINO
will make a good wife while they two"
are living IN three-room fiat will be
pretty safe to be trusted to be a good wife
in a brown-stone front. for the chances
of happiness in brown-stone front
would not be very promising If the wo-
man in question was not qualified to be
Cood Wife IN a three-room fiat.
The married life of the great men OF
the world is full of lights and shadows.
In fast, woman can make happy or mis-
erlble the l.fe of a great man just as
easily as she can that Of man ito for
tune and to fame unknown" 1t all de-
Tends upon the woman-and the man.
Tea. dyspepsia and a scoldlng wife
made the life of the famous essayist,
EGzl.tt, miserable. Tea dyspepsia and
scoldng wife-these three, but the great
est Of these Is a scoldng wife. Fielding
married a mad-servant and was miser-
able. Goethe married his housekeeper.
and was contented and happy. Lessing
married a widow, and was slngularly
happy-that Is, he was, stngularly, hap
py! Mo.ere, at 40, married an actress OF
II, but 1t was farce, and the curtain
was soon rung down. Steele was twice
married, and both times happily. The
married life OF Prince and Princess Bis
marck Is one of the worlds sweetest
stories, while Milton drew from his per-
sonal experience the material for vigor-
Gus pamphlet advocating divorce. Abra-
hams married life was made very un-
pleasant by the jealousy of Sarah for
Easar.
If Julius Caesar and Alexander the
Great had lived in Delaware they would
have been whipped about three times a
week, for they were chronic wife-beat-
ers. Racine was about to turn monk
through disgust at the failure Of one OF
his plays, but was persuaded to marry,
and ne never regretted 1t. The music Of
Mozart's happy welded life was sweeter
than any he composed. The story of the
married life OF James Fenimore Cooper
and his wife Is one of the idyls in the
annals of hymen. Richter married to get
good housekeeper, and he got one. And
right here It might be suggested that the
true sweet Marie is not she whose chief
claim Is that 4 = has face that Is fair to
see. The cir who can make biscuits
that can be ened without using a
Jimmie" discol by a very large per
cent the grand me who aever saw the
inside of tiour q rrel
Heine wrote urr friend that he was
"frie ehtfully" . Cato married a
poor girl that s. llstht be wholly depen-
dent upon him, d found her disagree
ably independe l David married the
daughter of Saul, out had to get rid Of her
on ac:ount OF ner temper Napoleon s
mlsfortunes were intimately connected
with the enforcement Of Josephine.
The list might be gone through with
and at the end we should find that be-
fore the great problem of human happi-
ness the prince is as helpless as the peas
ant and the philosopher as the mechanic.
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