The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1905-06-28


p The posi- gu that men take in re-
gard to THEN .; es and money is the
most illogicr reasonable thing
on earth. n worthy Of the
name expet ,rt his family.
frobablr 10 it, since it is
self-il ...,,.tior that he takes
upon hims,
Yet when he has to do it he does it
with the groaning and moaning of a
martyr. 1t may be that mems COM
plants, public and private, over what
their families cost them are merely a
little pleasantly to call attention to their
virtues, but it is joke that effectual-
ly spoils married life for the woman
VINO is the object Of it..
When men and women acquire
enough intelligence to settle the mon.
ey question before marriage instead of
afterward it will do more to infuse
happiness into matrimony than any
thing else.
No man should marry Il woman until
he has thoroughly familiarized him
self with grocery bills and coal bills,
and butchers bills, and drug bills,
and doctors bills, and millinery bills,
and dressmaking bills and all the
other bills and ills to which matri-
mony is heir.
And no woman should marry a
man until she has got an ironclad
contract for a definite allowance of
her own personal expenses and house
hold needs.
There are just 30 times less friction n
in getting money out of o man once q
month than there is in getting it from
him every day.
The reason that most married cou-
pies have not time to talk sentiment
is because they are haggling over
money.
The source of discord has to be
eliminated if the course of true love is
to flow smoothly.
The third reason that married life
is dull is because the curse of com
mercialism is upon it,
The one deathless passion of the
American man is the passion for max
ing money.
He loves his wife, but he loves his
business better.
He gives one thought to how he
can make her happy where he gives
hours of concentrated study to trying
to devise new ways of extending his
trade. .'.....
He expends his amiability in jolly
ing his customers, not ir paying COM
pliments to his wife.
He exhausts his diplomacy in deal
ing with difficult clients, not in try
ing to get along harmoniously with
his wife.
His witty stories, his entertaining
conversation, his suavity and polite
ness even, are for those who can
bring grist to his mill. They are
too precious for home consumption.
The best of himself, in mind and
manners and body, he gives to his
business, and all that many a woman
ever sees Of her husband is a man
that comes home at night with wreck
ed nerves and a temper that bushes
the children's prat.le as if they were
stricken dumb, and makes the cat
take to the cellar.
No woman marries to get this sort
of a matrimonial bargain.
She married for q companion, not to
geta patent adding machine or human
cash register.
She expected to have some one to
talk to, some one who would be in
terested in her and sympathize with
her, and make her life brighter and
happier for her.
She finds that she is united to O
man who grunts out replies to her
over his coffee and rolls in the morn
ing because he is so busy looking over
the financial column in the news
papers he has no time to talk.
As soon as breakfast is over he
gives her a perfunotory peck on the
cheek in place Of kiss, because his
mind is too absorbed in planning the
business of the day for hin to realize
her existence, much less to be con-
soious Of any thrill of love or regret
in parting from her.
AT night he returns too tired to
talk, too tired to go to any place of
amusement, too spent with the efforts
Of the day to even think of such q
thing as amusing or entertaining his
wife, and with his only desire to be
left undisturbed to pursue the fnan.
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