Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-04-09

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would gain more. Farmers have :
practice Of giving up large quantities
Of seed. but they ind it . paying invest
ment.
Now you are free to go wAere you
please. You have your surplus money
to spend on cigars, the drama, and up
on anything which takes your fancy.
You can pass the time very pleasantly
with the young ladies who enjoy your
company, but who probably entertain
the idea that in your attentions to
them you mean more than to while
away your time in gossip. Yes, in this
bachelor life of yours you rid yourself
of great many cares, too.
But are you living? Is it living to
spend your life at hotel or to gayly
pass your evenings at the club? Is it
living to go on through life and not
to know the joy of a home Of your
own? Is it living to have no wife and
children in whom to find daily happi-
ness
WHERE HAPPINESS IS FOUND.
What's that? Marriage is failure"
Lots of divorces you say? Pardon
me- marriage is not failure. l chal-
lenge any man to show that it is. Sta
tistics contradict it. Happy homes give
it the lie. Marriage is one of the great
est of successes 1t can be said without
fear of successful contradiction that the
majority of married people get more
joy out of their married life than they
do from anything else on earth. Mar
riage a failure? BY no means. Far,
very far from it, You bachelors notice
particularly the divorce cases of which
you read, you select the articles writ
ten against marriage, and as support
to your argument against the married
life you point out those homes in which
there is unhappiness. But you are in
the wrong. You can as truly say that
a web of cloth is failure because of
one broken thread somewhere in its
long stretch of yards as to say that
these exceptional cases of unhappiness
and divorce prove that married life,
taken as a whole, is failure.
Fix your minds eye upon the
divorces which have been allowed in
this country during the past twenty
five years, and at once you look upon
married life as a sad failure. But
bring the number of divorced persons
into comparison with the number of
undivorced: couples in the same period
of time and you will see that the per
cent of divorces in married life Is
small. Marriage is a success, a very
great success. In fact, marriage is the
least Of failure of most anything
with which mankind has to do. Wiser
by far to call business a failure, for the
per cent, of failures to make a success
in business life is many times greater
than the per cent. of failures to make
success in married life; but you invest
your capital in business enterprises. AS
well to call science a failure, for,
brought into comparison with mar
rage it is a failure, for the per cent.
Of scientific hypothesis which fail to be
supported by further research is
greater than the per cent, of failures
to find happiness in marriage; but you
believe that scientific research brings
untold blessings to humanity and you
respect the scientists. Better call the
ology a failure, for the failure of its
statements to stand the test of time is
greater than the failure to find joy in
married life; but you believe in the
0logy. So, too, the science of medi-
cine is much more of a failure than
marriage is, for in the experiments of
medical men there are fifty failures in
the endeavor to cure patients to one
failure in the endeavor to find happi-
ne-s in married life; but if taken sick
you are glad to have the Doctors skill
to aid you.
But while business failures multiply
scientific conjectures rise and wane, re-