The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-07-23
HAPPY MARRIAGES.
Some of the Factors That Make VI
For Matrimonial Bliss. z
A TALENT FOR CONCESSIONS.
Men Object to; Being Bored-Women,
Who Know Their Own Measure and
Can Make Much Of Little-some
Timely Advice. M 3;S

OF writing 1t would say there was
never a5more fruitiess topic OF discuss
ion than the tito of this article. For
instance. It is a proverb that n good son
and brother viii make good husband
and a good daughter and sister q, good
wife, while one who falls TO these treia-
tions will full in the deeper experience
OF matrimony. But, like the engaging
aphorlsm concerning early rising, this
proverb is wide enough to tnke in a
seam, and I would not advise trust
fui girl to discard her sultor because
he did not take his sisterE to the thea
tire or was cross to his mother before
breakfast, Many persons are not at
their best in the family circle, nor do
they display their highest qualities in
their, fathers house, writes cores.
pendent of the Baltimore Sun.
Except from loyalty there are COM
paratively few sisters who could truth
fully and heartily say Of Q brother, "He
will make my friend happy" because
they imagine he will treatshls wife ex-
actly as he treats them. and THE young
woman's next Of kin is pretty apt to
drop the tear Of pity when they think
of the nice young man who Is counting
Mary Jane under the imptession that
she will darn his stockings snnd wear
becoming Empire sacks to breakfast,
But Notwithstanding these! ominous
signs the proportion of happy mar
riaSes is so great that those most OPP
posed to the element OF sentiment must
admit that love Is a Regeneration. The
selfish brother or sistef-Decomes q
model OF self-abnegation, in the new
relation. Mary Jane mott only wears
the becoming Empire sack7to;b breakfast,
but cheerfully. cooks atmeal, and
Johnl;is prodigal when it comes to- his
wife's costumes. though he Thought a
last summers hat the most appropri-
ate head covering sister could wear.
This column knows an9afrectionate
brother whose attentions ote2 his sister
when she came home In vacation used
to consist in taking his sweetheart to
drive and allowing his relative to sit
on the front seat while they occupied
the back. So disciplined Is he. however,
by matrImony that he now calls on her
voluntarily Sunday aftaupons and
speaks with confidence of sending his
landau some day that she may pay
calls. The chorus of relations crying
of each young couple. How they have
Improved" produces the impression
that as scourge to good behavior mar
rage SURPRISES the. birch and dark
cell at! least three to one.
Afraid of IN Unlucky Number.
So much for the majority, of mar
, r:ages.i But 1t must be admitted that
now and then one is not SUCCESSFUL, and
in these hard times, / am told, so great
is the dread of the coy young man that
) he will draw. an unlucky number that
he requires a female Candidate for
matrimony to pass more difficult eX
animation than that enforced by the
Johns Hopkins training sched. sornurses
or the entrance to Bryn Ma&E: In fact,
this column has an acquaintance who
went go far as to marry a young wo-
man and aftei: n few weeks trial sent
her back TO her papa wlthsar bill of d.
vorcement, after the Hebraic method,
inwhich- he stated that she-was an ex-
cellent wo;San and he would heartily
recommend her for many fine qualities,
but for himself he could not abide her.
her certificate and attributes her late
spouse's antIpathy to personal pecu-
liarity OF his makeup, like aiiorror of
cats, which, you know. does not reflect
on the character. OF that attractive AMI
NAL. but or that OF the one who does
not Ike her. ST..
The fact, however. that, as he naive
~ put It. this husband returned his
bride because he could not abide her"
Is,pregnsnt with suggestion for other
would-be wives: for she who Is now
armed with her bill OF enforcement
probably bored him to death. a hor-
ror OF being bored is the phantom that
haunts the pillow of the modern young
. man. and one has only TO suggest an
uncnding tcte-a-tete TO make him get
on his yacht and fly to the other end
OF the world.
But lately. In your correspondents
own circle. there was u rich young
man who was known to entertain SER
ious Ideas Of getting married. He had
even gone so far as to ask n, young
woman OF his acquaintance whether
she. preferred n hot water or hot air
furnace, when Benedict Arnold OF
her sex made this remark in his pres
ence: ITO have 10 pass the evenings.
together with no interruption before
the fire happens oftencr to n married
couple than the presence of an enter
taIning visitor A whole lifetime OF
soiitude-a -deux rose before him, he
felt his Jaws crack with continuous
yawns and saw the water standing In
his eyes. And though he had q whole
some fear that in probing for the
young woman's tastes In the matter Of
furnaces he had gone far enough to
Justify her papa in asking his inten-
lions. he did not pursue the subject,
and. being discreet youth. stayed In
the house TIL the danger of reckoning
passed. ii7i
knowledge Of Her Own Limitations.
How not to bore n man is, then, one
of the chief requisites OF happy mar
4 yforn ? t,i tbt. ,nf,,u,r hos s-nYi.,d