The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1903-04-14
A Letter from a SeIf-Made Mer-
chant to his Son.

eiidu why LIN nUUle AFRAID UnaU
you may be planning to get married.
But twelve dollar clerk who owes
S52 for roses needs keeper more than
wife. want to say right here that
there always comes a time to the
fellow who blows $52 at a lick on roses
when he thinks how many staple gro
ceries he could have bought with the
money. After all, there's no fool like
a young fool, because in the nature Of
things he's got long time to live.
l suppose I'm tanning the air when
/ ask you to be guided by my judg-
ment in this matter, because while
young fellow will consult his father
about buying a horse he's cocksure of
himself when it comes to picking a
wife. Marriages may be made in
heaven, but most of the engagements
are made in the back parlor, with the
gas so low that fellow doesn't really
get square look at what he's taking.
While man doesn't see much of a
girls family when he's counting he's
apt to see good deal of it when he's
housekeeping and while he doesn't
marry his wife's father there's nothing
in the marriage vow to prevent the
old man from borrowing money from
him, and you can bet if he's old Job
Dashkam he'll do it. A man can't
pick his own mother, and when he
chooses a father-in-law who plays the
bucketshops he needn't be surprised if
his own son plays the races.
Never marry poor girl who's been
raised like a rich one. She's SIM
ply traded the virtues of the poor for
the vices of the rich without going
long on their good points. To marry
for money or to marry without money
is crime. There's no real objection
to marrying woman with a fortune,
but there is to marrying fortune
with a woman.
While you are at it, there's nothing
like picking out good looking wife,
because even the handsomest woman
looks homely sometimes, and so you
get little variety. But homely one
can only look worse than usual. Beau
ty is only skin deep, but that's deep
enough to satisfy any reasonable man.
Il want to say right here that to get
any sense out of a proverb | usually
find that have to turn it wrong side
out.) Then, too, if a fellows bound
to marry fool, and a lot Of men have
to if they're going to hitch up into a
well matched team, there's nothing
like picking a good looking one.
believe in short engagements and
long marriages. l don't see any sense
in a fellows sitting around on the
mOurner's bench with the sinners
after he's really got religion. The
time to size up the other sides
strength is before the engagement.
Some fellows propose to girl before
they know whether her back hair
match and then holler that they're
stuck when they find that she's got a
cork leg and glass eye as well.
They start out on the principle that
married people have only one meal a
day and that of fried oysters and tutti
fruitti ice cream after the theater.
Naturally girls got her better ma
ture and her best complexion along
under those circumstances. But the
really valuable thing to know is how she
approaches ham and eggs at o'clock
a. m. and whether she brings her
complexion with her to the breakfast
table. And these fellows makes girl
believe that they're going to spend
all the time between s and IL O'Clock
D. m. for the rest of their lives hold
ing 40 pounds in their lap and saying
that it feels like feather. The
thing to find out is whether, when
one of them gets up to holding a ten
pound baby in his arms for five min
utes, he's going to carry on as If it
weighed ton.
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