The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1899-04-09

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cent of failures to make a 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
riage, 1t is a failure. for the per
cent. of scientific hypothesis which
fail to be supported by further re-
search 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 re-
spect the scientists. Better call
theology 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 theology. So, too. the
science of medicine is much more
of failure than marriage is, for
in the experiments of medical men
there are fifty failures in the en-
deavOr to cure patients to one fail
ure in the endeavOr to find happi-
ness in married life; but if taken
sick you are glad to have the doc
tor s skill to aid you.
But while business failures null
tiply scientific conjeetures arise
and wane, religious creeds totter
and medical men fail to do "A third
of what they attempt to do, yet
marriage with but a small per cent.
of failures goes on to bless the
world and to afford to man a re-
treat of love TO which he can flee
when failures in his various pur-
suits make him heart-sad. No,
YOU bachelors take a wrong view
when yOu say marriage is a failure,
for the happiness in the homes of
married people forms the larger
part of happiness on this earth.
PEOPLE WHO OUGHT TO KNOW.
Stop a thousand men upon the
street this week and ask them if
they are ready to give up their
faithful and devoted wives at
home? Then stop a thousand
women and ask them if they are
ready to give up the men who as
loving husbands protect them. and
who as indulgent fathers provide
for their children? Look into
thousands of homes on Chri stmas
Eve, when fathers and mothers.
with faces full Of joy. are stuffing
the stockings of their sleeping
children, and ask them if mar
riage is failure? Ask the mil
lions of toilers on their way home
this week to be greeted by true
hearted wives and merry children
if marriage is a failure! Stand at
the open grave and see the tears
course down the cheek because a
husband or wife has crossed the
mysterious river and LETT a heart
desolate and ask If marriage is
failure? And You will find the
opinion of the great majority of
people to be that it is not failure.
and you will find millions Of hearts
grateful because in a world of toll.
of care, of selfishness, of sorrow,
there is such an institution as mar
riage, and such a thing as that
love which gladly shares another's
care and sheds abroad in another's
life the rays of purest joy.
Go on through life in single file
if you choose. Refuse to share
these responsibilities of the home.
Spend your money for your own
qualification. Travel Your round
of selfish pleasure. Grow old and
never know the love of wife and
child. But as the years come and
go remember it is not in marriage
where the failure lies, but III. her
in the single lives that help to stop
the flow of the generations, the
lives that never learn the lesson of
sharing their toll with loved wives
and children. Here my hachelnn.