The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1903-03-23
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"old oeraeu Graham" park :
Packer. Chicago, Writes 10
tia sen fisrrcpout
Dear pierreponti OF course
You're IN no position yet 20 think
af being engaged even aud
that's why I'm a little afraid
that you may b. piannlns "a set
married. Hut a tWelNu-dniiaf
| clerk. who owes fifty two dol
! lars FOR roses. needs "A keeper
mere than a wife, | want 10
J say right here that there al
ways yumra a timu u the fellow
y ho blows ffty-tea dollars At
lick on roses When he thinka
how many staple groceries he
GOULD have bought with the
money After AN, there's 40
fool like q yauna fool. because
Ia the nature OF thinKn he's got
long time 60 I've.
/ suppose I'm tanning the
the all when l ask yuu Ia be
guided b. my Judgment IN this
matter, because, While "A YOUNG
fellow viii consult hts father
about buying a horse, he's cock
sure u himself when Il cones 60
picking a wife, Marriage may
be made IN Heaven, but moot
engagements are made Ia the
hack parlof. with the gas 70 low
that a fellow doesn't really set
square hook at what he's talk
ing While man aaesnt see
much 81 a girls family when
he's eourttns. he's apt TO see a
COED deal Of II when he's house
kref,lnE. and white he doennt
marry hla wifos father, there's
nothing IA the marriage vow TO
prevent the old man from hof-
rowing money from him. and
you can bat n he's old job
Dashkam he'll 30 Il. A man
cant psck hsa own mothera but
he can pick bis sons mother.
aud when he chooses father
~ law who plays the bucket
shops. he needn't he surprised
II HE own son plays the races.
Never marty poof SRI u hos
been raised like a rich ons.
she's simply traded the virtues
Of the poar for the vices of the
rich without koing kong GA their
xaad pointn. To marry for
naoneY of 90 marry without
utaney h. crime. There's NO
reat objection 10 marrying
wesnan with a fortune. bat
thrfs IL 10 marrying a fortune
With a Woman Money makes
the fnar~ 20. and u makes her
u and you drive her with a
snaffis-bit.
while you are at IL. there's
looking wife. because even the
hanfisopcst woman looks home
~ somstlfnes. aud - you get a
httis variety. but a hefnels oae
can only look worse than usual
Beauty IN emily .kin deep but
j that's deep enough 90 satisfy
any reasonable man. u waat
10 say Ftsht here that 60 get
any sense out Of a pfoNefh l
usually find that 1 have 20 turn
~ wrong side eat.t Then. too. IL
a fellows bound TO marry .
foai. and a let OF men have 70 II
theg'ru going 10 hitch up iato
q matched team. thsre's
nothins ifks picking a xos@t-
locking one
s<ilsve IN .hor, easasstnsntr
and ionx marriages. Don't see
any sen-e In = fellows sitting
around ON ths rnoafnsrs bsnsh
with the sinners. after he's real
" got rsiistaa. Tbs time 20 alas
up tho other sides strength 70
before the engagement.
Some fellows propose 10 a sffi
before Their know vhsther her
front and her heek hair match.
and then boiler that they're
stueA when they lind that she's
got a cork leg and q glass eye
as we'll ! hasca't any sysnisa-
thy with them.
They start out on tho pfin-
cspie that married people have
only on- meal day. ana thai
u fried oysters and tatti-frusfi
iea cream after the thsater.
Naturally. a siri's got her bet
ter nature and her best com
piexinn along under those cir
eunnstances, bat the really vaiu-
! able thing 70 knou IL how shs
approaches ham and sEx. At :
q. m. and whether she bring
her eofapi~sinn with hsr 20 the
breakfast table. Ana these tel
lows make Eifi believe that
they're going 10 spend AL the
time between I and II ., m. Tor
the rest o. their lives. holding a
hundred and forty sounds. live
weight. IN their lap. aud saying
that n feels like a feather. Ths
thing 10 find out In whefhsr.
when one Of them sets up 90
his arms. for five minutes he's
going % carry on a. II g
From Letters from a SELF
Made Merchant 20 III. Son. by
George Horace LnrAner. Small.
Maynard q Co. Boston.l