The Savannah morning news., 1904-09-11
WORLD


At 40 the old maid is hopelessly adj
dicted to her latch key and her own
pocketbook, and her matrimonial
who have acquired the habit of hav-
ing a master, and are lost without
one, marry after that, but the spinster
rarely does. When she does, however,
she throws judgment and reason to
the winds and marries to please her
fancy and she's just as liable to mar
ry boy, young enought to be her son,
as anY other.
But from any point Of view 1t is
wonderful the recklessness with which
women rush into matrimony. They
don't even take a mans business into
consideration, and tia business deter
mines the man. For instance. a wom-
an who is marrying a clergyman,
should ask herself before she takes
the fatal step whether she is meek
and lowly enough in spirit to wear
made over dresses and last years bird
nest for bonnets, because the congre-
CATION holds that good clothes are sin
full in the minister's wife. She should
also reflect that a preacher is satu-
rated with alteration, and that it will
be up to her to give her husband a
double distilled brand of fattery if she
keeps in the running. No jealous wom-
an who cannot distinguish between
spiritual interest i'm a sister soul and
a bodily interest i'm her heart should
marry a preacher unless she is start
ing out to hunt for trouble.
If a doctor proposes real doctor,
who does his duty-a woman should
take into consideration whether she
would rather have a homeopathic
dose of his society than an allopathic
does of a business mans. She would
know that he will have no time for
society and little for his family His
hours when not Office hours, are spent
in study or visiting patients. He new
err Keeps engagements with his wife,
and life with him is a waiting game,
where she is always on the ragged
edge of uncertainty. For the method-
cal woman matrimony with a doctor
is a bad risk.
The curious woman should never
marry a lawyer. If he is successful
diVorcing couples who have gone as
tray or shielding the guilty who ought
to be punished, he is bound to have
secrets from his little tootsie wootsie
wife that she is diving to find out, and
a husband who knows the warm facts
in a scandal and won't tell them is an
aggravation that is enough to drive
any woman into the divorce court her
self.
The woman who contemplates marry
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can bear the inevitable comparison
with the inimitable projections of the
her0ines her husband creates. 1t must
be little trying to a sawedoff woman,
with dumpy figure and hay colored
hair, to read the description of gor-
geous creature seven foot high, with
a rose leaf skin and golden locks, and
know that she is the ideal of feminine
pulchritude her husband cherishes in
his secret soul.
The woman who marries an actor
must consider if she can stand to see
the man she loves make love to another
woman and throw enough ginger in the
scene to make it go, without wanting
to tear the stage heroine's hair, and
read the riot act to Romeo when he
gets home. Many women have tried
this. Few have succeeded. Hence the
brevity of stage marriages.
A politicians wife is either his hoo
doc or his mascot. Men may overlook
his grabs and CRAFTS. and forget his
past record, but the barkeeper, whose
wife his wife snubbed. knifes him in
the primaries. No woman should mar
ry politician unless nature has gift
ed her with the glad hand, and who is
not willing to put the red plush offer
ing of the 'Steenth ward in the front
parlor. Furthermore, she must reflect
that her husband must give the best
of himself to the public. and that his
smiles and diplomacy are too valuable
for home consumption.
Musicians are almost always nervous
and irritable. and the woman who mar
ries one may look out for discord. Any
woman who undertakes to be a high c
affinity to a musical artist should eX-
anime herself closely and ascertain If
she has the temper of an angel and is
thoroughly inoculated against the ten
dency to talk back. Thus may she
save herself the expense of a divorce
suit
The journalists wife must smash the
clock and burn up the time table: the
students wife must be prepared to run
things for her unworldly spouse, while
the artists wife must subscribe to the
theory that her husbands admiration
of a pretty model is a case of art for
arts sake.
On the whole. though. the business
man is about the safest matrimonial
chance. He is used to charging things
up to profit and loss" and he not
only generally strikes a good average
of domesticity, but makes the best of
his wife's faults and foibles.
Dorothy Dix.