The Brownsville daily herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1897-1910, 1905-03-08
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and of course we wish them boz
voyage" and predict that they vii
do nothing else but cruise aroun'
the fortunate isle for the next forty
years or so, but in our hearts ",
know that there is bound to come
storm and stress and tempest.
II is a safe thing to say that al
most every American marriage Is
love match, and this being true, il
Is a curious and cynical commentary
on it that we lead the world in the
number of divorces. American
women are the most sentimental
creatures on cath, and when they
marry il is because they are som
WINGED, temporarily at least, that
they cannot exist without the ador-
ed one. They seldom take money
into consideration in the matter,
position rarer still. If they love
Tom Jones or John Smith, that
settles the matter, and they marry
him expecting TO live happily ever
after.
Love is enough, they cry, with
the fatuous folly of inexperience,
and then some day they wake mp
aghast to End out that love is not
enough to meet the requirements
of every day life. There are many
persons who are every ready in
giving advice to the bride about
obedience.
Has anybody ever said a word
to you about carrying along a little
common sense in the cargo you are
going to ship for this long voyage?
No, ] thought not, yet a little hard,
practical, everyday sense will do
more to insure domestic felicity
than a square mile of illuminated
notices of God bless our home. "
In the first place / suppose you
realize what you are doing in get
ting married.
Matrimony means, among other
things, a few parties to which you
drag a tired and unwilling man,
instead of being joyfully escorted
to innumerable balls. 1t means no
more beaux, occasional theater
ticket, buying your own candy and
flowers, few compliments, peck on
the cheek for a kiss, and that in
stead of daily rehearsals of indy
ing devotion, you will be expected
to take your husbands love on
trust, but you will have lots Of
and sometimes he is worth
paying this price for
Then I will recall TO YOU the fact
that the very highest ideal of mat
rimony is a perfect partnership in
The duties, responsibilities and per
luisites of life. No man has a
right to marry until he has told
her fully and truly about business
affairs. If a girl is too frivolous
md silly to understand a plain
proposition, she is certain
y to idiotic to marry.
We hear a great deal about ex-
women who ruin their |
husbands. If we could know the |
)ther side of the story, we
should hear that in ninety-nine |
lines out of the hundred the hus-
1and never conhded in his wife,
md she was in utter ignorance of
what they could Of couldn't afford. |
On the other hand, the terms of
partnership bind a woman to make
/ home and set well cooked food |
before her husband, and make him
If she shirks these
luties she fails in her part. Just
that. won't You and |
ion board.
l don't know of anything sadder
han to read in the papers at the
md of the account of a swell we'd
ling that the happy couple have
aiken rooms at Mrs. SO and Sos.
)f, course, you think that you and |
Tom being the first couple that
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