The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1899-12-13

expensive drinks to every fool who
claps him on the back and calls him
cold man. he cannot afford to marry,
because he would not deny himself
small but not very elevating luxuries
for the sake of gaining that greatest
of all luxuries, good wife. Then if
a man have small income he must
select girl with slender waist, not
one who has made her waist slender
by Notwithstanding corsets, but one
who can manage a small income and
make both ends meet with the least
possible amount Of waste.
Mothers have much to do with this
matter. They are always on the look
out for rich husbands for their daugh-
ters; would it not be betterif they fit
ted their daughters to be the wives OF
men who are not millionaires? Ii they
did this more men would think that it
was time to marry.
A certain philosopher said that we
should marry early and often. This
advice cannot be followed if We wait
till all the preliminaries that have
been enumerated in reference to char
acter, health, money, age and so forth
are quite satisfactory. Rather we shall
have to enroll ourselves the disciples of
another philosopher who said, "lf
young do not marry yet, if old do not
marry at all.
The advice Of the second philoso-
just quoted, about marrying early and
often, suggests the question when a
person should marry again whose first
or second partner has died. Hamlet
has said some very hard things against
rapid succession in this matter, and
certainly there ought to be decent
interregnum between the queens of a
man hearth. If man replace his
wife too soon it looks as if he had
been in love with her successor before
his first wife died. On the other
hand, if he never marry again people
may say of him "Once bitten, twice
shy" Here, as in other cases, the
happy medium is best, and would
plead for little more sentiment than
was shown by a certain Irish small
farmer. Asked by his landlord if the
report of his second marriage was true,
he replied: cit is, yer homer. . But
your first has only been dead week,
Pat" can shure she's as dead now
as she ever will be, yer homer.
A famous American author inscrib-
ed upon the gravestone of his wife,
''The light has goue from my life"
Time not only modified his distress,
but suggested renewal of conjugal
bliss. A neighbor had the bad taste
to banter him on his engagement. and
to express surprise that he had SO
soon forgotten his words Of lamenta-
tion. He replied $50 far from for
getting them, I remember and repeat
them now. as originating and confirm
ing the intention that you are pleased
to criticise. declared that the light
was gone from my life, and it is for
this reason that I proposet to strike an
other match. -
Near Valentines Day in February
is favorite time for marrying. So is
April, in spite of the fear few must
have Of making April fools Of them
selves. For some reason or another
May is considered unlucky, though
one would think that time when ev-
cry bud in nature speaks Of hope
should be reassuring. June is COM
Portable time for honeymooning, for
hotels are not full and trippers have
not yet started on their wild career.
Any time, however, will do for marry
ing. and should be taken advan-
tage of when the right person turns
up.