The Washington bee., 1895-10-05
The Better-Half Question.

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 weather eye
open on the question OF matrfmony. 1t
might be thrown out as a matter Of ad-
vice that every young man ought 10
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 ip brown-stone front
would not be very promising il the wo-
man in question was no. qualified to be
good wife IN a three-room fiat
The married life of the great men Of
the world is full of lights and shadows.
In fact, woman can make happy or mis-
cradle the Life of a great man just as
easily as she can that OF a man Ito for
tune and to fame unknown" 1t all de-
pends upon the wonan-and the man.
Tea, dyspepsia and a scolding wife
made the life OF the famous essayiss,
Hazltt, miserable. Tea, dyspepsia and
scoldins wife-these three, but the great
est of these is scolding wife. Fielding
married a maGd-servant and was miser-
able. Goethe married his housekeeper,
and was contented and happy. LessiEg
married a widow, and was singularly
happy-that is, he was, singularly, hap
py, Moliere, at 40, married an actress Of
II, but it 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 a vigor-
Gus pamphlet advocating divorce. Abra-
hams married life was made very un-
pleasant by the jealousy Of Sarah for
Hagar.
If Julius Caesar and Alexander the
Great had lived in Delaware they would
have been whipped about three times
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 he never regretted it. The music of
Mozart's happy welded l.fe was sweeter
than any he composed. The story Of the
married life Of James Fenlmore Cooper
and his wife Is one Of the idyls in the
annals Of hymen. Richter married to get
a good housekeeper, and he got one. And
right here 1t might be suggested that the
true sweet Marie is not she whose chief
claim is that she has face that Is fair to
see. The girl who can make biscuits
that can be opened without using
Jimmie" discounts by very large pr
cent the grand dame who never saw the
inside f,f q hOur harrp1
Heine wrote to a friend that he was
"frightfully" happy. Cato married
poor girl that she NIGH be wholly depen-
dent upon him. and found her disagree
ably independent. David married the
daughter Of Saul. but had to get rid Of h.r
on account of her temper. Napoleon's
misfortunes were intimately connected
with the divorcement Of Josephine.
The list might be gone through with
and at the end we should find that be-
fore the great problem Of human happ.-
ness the prince is as helpless as the peas
ant and the philosopher as the mechanic.
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