The Greeley tribune., 1903-12-31


think of being engaged even. and that 3
why I'm little afraid that you may
be planning to get married. but
twelve dollar clerk who owes No. tor
roses needs keeper more than wire.
I want to say right here that there al
ways comes time to the fellow VINO
blows So at "A lick on roses whch ne
thinks how many staple groceries he
could have bought with the money.
After ALL there's no fool like young
fool, because in the nature OF things
he's got long time to live.
suppose I'm tanning the air when
ask you to be guided by my Judgment
in this matter. because while young
fellow will consult his father about
buying horse he's cocksure OF NM
self when it comes to picking wiie'
Marin ges may be made in heaven. but
most engagements are made in the
back purlor. with the gas so low that
fellow doesn't really get square look
at what he's talking. While man
doesn't see much Of girls family
when he's courting he's apt TO see a
good deaf of it when he's hOusekeep-
ing. 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 IL he's old Job Dashkam
he'll do it. A man can't pick his own
mother. but he can pick his sons moth
er, and when he chooses father-tn-
law who plays the bucketshops he
nec,.:'t be surprised IL his own son
plays the races.
Never marry a poor girl who's been
raised like a rich one. Shes simply
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 a woman with Il fortune, but
there is to marrying fortune with n
woman.
While you are at 1t, there's nothing
like picking out good looking wife,
because even the handsomest woman
looks homely sometimes. and 30 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 proverb usually
find that have to turn 1t wrong side
out) Then. too. If fellows bound
to marry a fool. and lot Of men have
to II they're going to hitch up into a
well matched team. there's nothing
like picking n good !noi!::g one
believe in short engagements and
long marriages. / 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 a girl be-
fore they know whether her front and
her back hair match and then holler
that they're stuck when they find that
she's got a cork leg and glass eve
as we'll
They start out on the principle that
people have only one meal a
day and that of fried oysters and tutti
frutti ice cream after the theater Nat
and her best complexion along under
those circumstances But the really
thing to know. is how she an
proaches ham and eggs at I o'clock
a. M. and whether she brings her com.
plexion with her to the breakfast Ia
BILE. And these fellows make n girl be.
lieve that they're going to spend all
the time between and IL O'clock
p. m. for the rest of their lives holding
40 pounds. live weight, in their Lap
and saying that it feels like a feather.
The thing to find out is whether, when
ohe or them gets up to holding a ten
pound baby In his arms for five min.
ates' hes going to carry on as IL IT
ton.