The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1895-08-22

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gree Of success or greatness dur
ing the course of their lives. The
young man who entertains this ambi-
ton should keep Il weather eye open
on the question of matrimony. 1t
might be thrown out as a matter of ad-
vice that every young man ought to
marry with the idea that he might be-
come famous some day. The girl who
will make a good wife while "they two"
are living in a three-roOm flat will be
pretty safe to be trusted to be a good
wife in a brOwnstone front, for the
chances Of happiness in a brownstone
front would not be very promising if
the woman in question was not quail
fed to be a 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 ii man "to for
tune and to fame unknown" 1t all
depends upon the wOman-and the
man.
Tea, dyspepsia and a scOlding wife
made the life of the famous essayist,
Hazlitt, miserable. Tea, dyspepsia and
a scolding wife-these three, but the
greatest Of these is a %scolding wife.
Fielding married a maidservant and
was miserable. Goethe married his
housekeeper and was contented and
happy. Leasing married a widow and
was %singularly %happy-that is, he was,
singularly, happy! Moliere, at 40, mar
ried an actress Of II, but 1t was a
farce and the curtain was soon rung
down. Steele was twice married and
both times happily. The married life
of Prince and Princess Bismarck Is one
of the worlds sweetest stories, while
! Milton drew from his personal expert
ence the material for Il vigorous pam
phlet advocating divorce. Abraham's
married life vas made very unpleasant
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 a
week, for they We're chronic wife beat
els. IldCluc was dpOul W lulH uuOhh
through disgust 1t the failure of one Of
his plays, but was persuaded to marry
and he never regretted it. The music
Of MOzart's happy welded life vas
sweeter than any he composed. The
story Of the married life of James Feni-
more 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 it might be
suggested that the true sweet Marie Is
not she whose chief claim is that she
has a face that is fair to see. The girl
who can make biscuits that can be OPEN
ed without using a Jimmie" discounts
by a very large per cent the grand dame
who never saw the inside of a -four
barrel.
Heine wrote to a friend that he was
"frightfully" happy. Cato married a
poor girl that she might be wholly de-
pendent upon him and found her dis
agreeably independent. David married
the daughter of Saul, but had to get rid
of her on account Of her temper. Ma
p%oleon's misfortunes were intimately
connected with the enforcement Of Jo-
sephine.
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
peasant and the philosopher as the me-
chanic.