The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1903-06-03


or course you're In no position yet to
think of being engaged even and that's
why I'm little afraid that you may
be planning TO get married. But a
twelve dollar clerk who owes $50 for
roses needs a keeper more than a wife
want to say right here that there al
ways comes n time TO the fellow who
blows $50 at a Hex on roses when he
thinks how many staple groceries he
could have bought with the money.
After all, there's no fool like n young
fool, because in the nature of things
he's got a long time TO live.
| suppose I'm tanning the afr when
ask you TO be guided by my Judgment
In this matter. because while n young
fellow will consult his father about
buying a horse he's cocksure OF him.
self when II comes TO picking n wife.
Marriages may be made In heaven, but
most engagements are made In the
back parlor. with the gas 80 low that
fellow doesn't really get a square look
at what he's talking. While n man
doesn't see much OF girls family
when he's counting he's apt to see a
good deal OF II when he's housekeep-
ing. and while he doesn't marry his
wife's father there's nothing I'm the
marriage vow to prevent the old man
from borrowing money from him. aud,
you can bet II he's old Job Dashkam
he'll do II. A man can't pick his own
mother. but he can pick his sons moth.
er. and when he chooses father-in-
Jaw who plays the bucketshops he |
needn't be surprised II his own son 1
plays the races. I'D
Never marry a poor girl who's been
raised like rich one. She's simply
traded the virtues OF the poor for tho
vices OF the rich without going long
IN their good points. To marry for
money or 20 marry without money Is
crime. THERE'S no real objection 10
a woman with a fortune. but
there is TO marrying fortune with a
woman.
While you are at II. there's nothing
ike picking out n good looking wife. \
because even the handsomest woman
ooks homely sometimes. and 80 you
get a little variety. Hut homely one
an only look worse than usual Beau
y is only skin deep, but that's deep
'nough TO satisfy any reasonable man
| want TO say right here that 10 get
my sense out OF n proverb | usually
Ind that have 20 turn II wrong side ,
'ut) Then. too. II fellows bound
o marry a fool. and lot Of men have
o II they're going to hitch up into
veil matched team, there's nothing
Ike picking a good looking one.
believe In short engagements and 4,
Dng marriages. | don't see any sense ,
n a fellows sitting around on the ,
bench with the sinners
fter he's really got religion The
line 10 size up the other Sides ,
trength is before the engagement. 81, ..
Some fellows propose TO girl be-
ore they know whether her front and !
er back hair match and then boiler
hat they're stuck when they nod that =
he's got a cork leg aud a glass eye
S well.
They start out on the principle that d
married. people have only one meal 8
ny ana that OF fried oysters ana tutu
rutti ice cream after the theater. Nat. q
rally a girls got her better nature .
nd her best complexion along under {
hose circumstances. but the really .
aluable thing TO know Is how she ap- 7
reaches ham and eggs at O'Clock
. m. and whether she brings her con-. ! Y
lexion with her 10 the breakfast Ia y
lie. And these fellows make girl be- 6
eve that they're going 10 spend all
he time between s and II o'clock
m. for the rest OF their lives holding u
40 pounds, live weight. In their lap |.
nd saying that II feels like a feather y
he thing TO lind out is whether, when =
ne OF them gets up to holding a ten y
ound baby In his arms for ave min i
ties, he's going to carry on as II II a
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