The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-01-07
ON MARRYING RICH.


above remark of my pretty cousin You
surely do not mean 10 deny that the av-
erase young woman of our time is charm
60 with what riches can buy?"
| OF course not. But we are not more
enamored Of wealth than young men
are. l think We care less for il than
J young men do. Few Of us thirst enough
for the riches to make any serious at
mpt TO win them by efforts of our own.
there are not few young women in this
country today who have had = college
education in every way equal to that OF
their young brothers. Yet these women,
brilliant and capable, as l claim, are
content if they earn good living. or il
they marry and never utilize their spe-
cal studies for special success in Life.
as You call IL. The idea that the girls
are crazy after money, How many young
men would be willing to begin married
life, with some good girl they loved, on
the same revenue with which the true
hearted girl herself would be content?"
We'll, go on. This is in the right vein,
| II You are sure you know girls"
| Il ought to know them. l am with
them-one of them, indeed. And If you
will not laugh at me, cousin mine, I'll
confess frankly that if / loved a boy.
I'd like nothing better than to begin
the struggle of life with him, and help
Kim to make and save his fortune.
thereafter, II L wanted a OOiidT OF pocket
money. l should not feel like a beggar
when L reached out my gloved hand for
! it, and bashfully swung my parasol in
the other hand. / have often laughed at
mother over the hesitating way in which
she stands before father, the best OF men,
and stammers. and frames two or three
preconned sentences of request while the
carriage waits to take shopping"
We rambled on, talking next of our
wed, who was astonished the third week
from her marriage, by the sheriff at the
| door, and was compelled to listen to the
| reading of a writ of attachment for ali
| the pictures on the wall, the house and
| grounds, before her husband returned
. from BUSINESS to explain that he had fall
ed. We remembered how brave and
happy she was, like a heroine in fiction,
new she laughed at our coincidence, not
extensively nor falsely, but with right
good cheer; how she protested that she
was glad she was wife instead of affianced
/ in such dark day, for now she was priv
iieged to be ever at her good mans side.
1 Indeed, she stoutly said it, that a good
Providence had hurried on their wedding.
For" said she, IF George and l had not
been married when we We're, you see We
should not have been for many long
day. George would never have had the
trust in my courage and hardihood to
have asked me to share a bankrupt
home. Father would have decided it i'm
prudent-no, no, the world would have
pronounced il out of the question-and so
my George would have had mis- struggle
! all alone. But we are married! Thank
God. that can never be prevented now,
though all the banks in the city fail"
She was of heroic spirit. The event has
proved that il was a providence. The
quick wit of that bright girl, her sunny
fortitude, her hearty greetings after ev-
/ cry days uphill toll, her hope in hours
/ of gloom. her graceful and becoming
! economy-she promptly laid aside the dia-
monds of the prosperous wedding day
and her ability to make new friends and
keep the old; these were sunless wealth
to George. The fellow is long since on
his feet again. and to all the listening
ears of their little world he never tires
OF praising the true wife that helped him
I in adversely.
To be sure, no manly man will invite
a woman to share beggary. To be out
OF employment with no reasonable pros
pect of revenue that will well feed one.
is to be ordered to watt for marriage
I VIII keep sweeter in store than in use in
such a case. 1t may be that school
i ing for ones profession will yet with
propriety take all of ones time and means
( for several years
good sense complied with. We have no
hesitation in saying that welded life is
/ happier It'll death do them part" If
| hand in hand, the two have toiled up
/ through the various ascending stages of
good fortune. Love grows by what ii
feeds upon. Days of mutual self-denial;
days of planning when both see eye to
eye, and must perforce contrive to make
the ends meet; and so the habit of per-
feet unison is acquired, habit which
nothing can break; days of generous So
Ecitude for each others strength and
I endurance under the burdens which each
knows the other is bearing, with such
prayers and lowering thoughts. now pity,
now admiration, and all the tenderness
which grows with mutual thinking in
each others behalf; days of courage,
when one is ready to sink. but that the
other is so hopeful that it would be a
down right shame to desert him (her) in
his splendid courage; days of sadness,
when two hands alone of all the world
clasped each other in the gloom. and.
sreechless held each other hard and
long, walking by faith and not by sight
these are the food of love.
When an old man and his mate have
so come up from nothing" keeping step
TO the dull music of poverty till ii broke
into the symphony of opulence, then IL
is that they know each others very souls,
then il is that the twain have become
as one" II does ones heart good TO
watch them as they walk the earth to-
gether 1t may be, 10 be sure, that the
mutual heirs of riches, ever since their
Wedding bells. can love as fondly; yes. it
may be; but il is not so in arms. where
&C mrades OF the bivouac and the battle
love as holiday soldiers never can. And
these comrades of life's longer battle seem
to keep a close step, from the drill OF
many a toilsome march and faithful
ness of many a fronting OF selfish
world Perhaps it ought not TO be writ
ten: still for all that. we cannot help
saving II in our thoughts, that il is in
describably sad to see one of these faith
full twain sink into her grave. with
her frosty hair not quite snow-white on
her brow, and a younger head come 20
take the place and station which her
true hands wrought out of poverty into
plenty We only say it is sad: not that
Il is bad: and the sadness no one feels
more keenly than he who never openly
speaks Of IL now, and the voice OF memory
only whispering unutterabie reveries 10
his soul.
Suppose the youth and maid agree TO
wait For what2 Why. for certain car
pets. chairs lace curtains. n pile Of
crown stones. and a box or two Of plate
glass Pile up this rubbish IN a heap
and look at the gilded. costly mass. For
these he loads himself with unaccOmpa-
MED years. temptations which beset the
homeless, long waitings that make the
heart sick For these she puts him OF
and coInpels him TO slave Z as IL he were
a corsair and she 4 sea-king's bargain.
- 20 with a heap Of barter. Il isn't worth
the while. young peopie-these carpets.
chairs. lace curtains. etc. Life isn't long
CROUCH The world u too u1frieudly.
II you can earn an honest living, and
are reasonably sure OF il for three years