Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-11-10
MEN WHO CAN'T GET WIVES.
Evryth1ng Seems to Be in Their FS-
vor. But They Don't Find
the Right Women.

Considering the number of surplus
there are so many men who really want
to marry, but cannot get wife, no mat
ter how they try. They are the men who
have set their hearts on particular girls,
hut, alas, the girls do not see eye to eye
with them, says the Chicago American
These men, however, won't marry
other girls; their hearts are given to GER
tain girls, whom they consider to be
in class by themselves, and no others
will do.
These men may be called very unfor-
tunate, and their case is almost hope
less. But there is a type of man who
cannot get wife, and he does not know
why; he may be in a good position, may
have fairly decent income, yet, do
as he likes, no girl will have him; no,
even although he be good-looking.
Then there are the men who persist
emily choose wrong girls; they take a
notion for this one, that one, and the
next one.
A trif1ing incident may cause the no
tion-a dress, hat; look, anything
but they fall in love with the girl, and
madly chase after a shadow, without, of
course, any chance of capturing it.
These men fall in love with some
things not with girl, and, therefore,
they are doomed to failure.
Many men err in the proposal. They
make mess of It. They either adopt
too high and mighty style, or too hum
BILE one, and in the latter case man
is apt to be looked at with suspicion, for
too humble person is usually per-
feet nuisance to set along with, being
generally a hypOcrite of the first water.
But the man who proposes in hum
BILE way may not be hypocrite. He may
be very sincere, but a girl won't, as a
rule, have anything to do with the cring-
ing lover SO he fails, and fails again.
till he is elected member of the Noble
and Ancient Order of Bachelors.
Naturally, the high and mighty pro-
poser has as little chance. No self-re-
specting girl will have him, and he does
not see that he is standing in his own
light. He marvels at his reflections per-
haps, but it never strikes him that his
conceit is at the bottom Of 1t, so he
also is elected to the above named Or
der. The man who is anxious to marry
but cannot find a suitable wife is ever
enough; that one would not have him,
he thinks, and SO on.
This sort of man is best unwed. He
is half fool, half hypocrite. Half fool,
because faint heart never won fair lady;
half hypocrite,s because any honest, gen.
.uine woman is good enough for man.
Then there is the doubling man; he
is certain that matrimony would be good
for him, and he is sure that a man needs
wife, but-he considers too much; he
wants to peep into the future in order
| to find out if his matrimonial journey
would be smooth.
He is, of course, no true man this: he
has not trace of the sportsman in him.
Would not the pleasure of matrimony
be robbed of half it's charm were there
not a few riSks2e sg5s& a1e.E
Ss4Would the prospect Of "a married life
be SO delightful if we could see along
theesWholes road to- a smooth and COM
Portable ending?-. :, a
The edoubtef hesitates; at times he
feels that he must propose, get married
and settle down, but he shrinks, the
risks are too terrible, so he glides away
into nothingness, namely bachelors
existence. -
We all know the man who wants too
much; his idea of wife is not so much
a woman as an angel he wants perfec-
ton in his wife, but he never gets it,
for there is9nething perfect on earth,
not even one single woman.
These are. few types of men who
want to marry but cannot, and, doubt
less, you will be able to conjure up a
number of Others
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