The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1906-03-16
WORDS OF ADVICE
TO you've MEN CONTEMPLATING
TAKING A WIFE.
How They May DO Guarded Against
Marrying tho Wrong
WoRan.

Woman.
A lecturer dramatically Inquired:
Can any. one In this room tell me Of
q perfect manP" There was dead 81
lence.
Has any one,n he continued,
heard Of a perfect woman"
Then q patient. looking little woman
rose In the back part of the house and
said: There was one, / have often
heard of her but she's dead now. She
was my husbands first wife"
Be prepared for imperft ctions. No.
body Is always consistent. The man
or woman who never made q mistake
is a myth.
Man, are you looking for an angelo
How would you look alongside Of an
angelo
When real life comes to the best
and happiest pair, with its trouble
and It's caro, the tower Of romance
will fell, leaving US In the mud.hut Of
everyday reality.
Man and woman are like two shells
Of the oyster-they were made for
each other.
The man who avoids matrlmony on
account Of the cares of welded life
rivals the wisacre who secured him.
self against corns by having his legs
~amputated.
Some n has said that it ia in life
as IT Is with a kite, 1t will not fly very
high unless 1T has q string tying IT
down, and SO the man who Is tied
down by o half dozen responsibilities
and their mother will make q higher
and stronger fight than the bachelor
who, having nothing to keep him
steady, is always laundering In the
mud.
II you want to ascend In the world
tie yourself to somebody.
A crusty old bachelor, hearing that
his friend had gone blind, said: Let
him marry, and II that does not open
his eyes, nothing else will"
But that ace has been confuted
by the experience Of many blind schol-
ars like Hood, famous authority on
bees, and Fawcett, political economist
Of Cambridge and highlands most IA
nous Postmaster General, whose high.
ly qualified wives were eyes indeed to
their husbands.
Marriage remoulds character, bright
ems prospects, gives faces to clouds,
meaning to words, will make the birds
sing more sweetlY, the SUI shine more
brightly, elevate your hopes, arouse
ambition and give purpose to life. 1t
will double joys and divide sorrows.
Our social ohariots should be attach.
ed to the stars Of love.
All history and experience have
proven that marriage is the worlds
civilizer, the safety valve of business
life, the cabinet room where is de vised
most Of the great things of life.
The only permanent builder In the
social arrangements Is love between
man and woman.
A wise marriage leads to the truest
and happiest life. Many men think
themselves self made who are really
marriage-made.
Napoleon won his greatest victories
while Josephine was his wife, and
while he loved her. When our coun-
try's interest hung In the balance at
Valley Forge, Martha Washington
fastened to her George, and urged
him up and on to victory, Bismarck
and Disraell, who for thirty years
were the controlling powers In Euro
pean politics, both owned that they
owed their success to their wives.
Thousands Of wives have been tic
their husbands the inspirers Of lof6 y
thoughts, majestic aspirations and
sublime purposes.
Whether o man shall be made OF
marred In marriage depends altogeth.
er upon his choice Of a partner.
SNlnmnn UhOCa nootrinnpnio1 unn.
lures, were rather multitudinous,
says: "a prudent wife is from the
Lord" leaving us TO infer whore an
i%mprudent n most come from.
Wadsworth paints the you
want.
"A creature not too bright or good
For human natures daily food,
Tue reasOn firm, the temperate will,
Endurance, foresight, strength and
skill;
A perfect woman nobly planned,
70 warn, TO comfort and command,
And yet q spirit still and bright,
With something Of an angel light"
Don't marry for beauty alone. Soc.
rates called beauty "a short,llved ty-
rannY," and Theophrastus pronounced
~ d d sllcLU Cu06u.
The mar who marries for beauty
alone Is as silly as the man who would
buy a house because 1t had fine flowers
In the front yard.
1t takes more than a fair skin,
bright eyes, beautiful form and deli.
cate hands to mako q really beautiful
woman. The highest type of beauty
Is neve merely physical; 1t 10 In the
outgleamings Of internal virtues and
sweet graceS OF character.
The hetuty that lasts shines in the
V%irtuous life, sweetens the voice of
BY mpathy, sparkles on the brow OF
wisdom and flashes In the eye of love.
A lovely soul will glow In the face.
The really beautiful woman has a
beauty which changes not with years,
aud this Is the only beauty that can
be relied upon for a permanent inhu-
erce with men.
The violet will o cease to smile.
Flo .ers must fade. The love that
has nothing but beauty to sustain 1t
soon witherS away.
a beautiful woman pleaseS the eye,
o good woman holds the heart. The
one ID q jewel, the other Is q treasure.
Look we'll to the temper OF the
woman you think Of marrying. Soc
rates said he married Xantippe and
endured her for self. discipline"
The story Is told Of him that when
his wife gave him a lecture he walked
outside the house, sat down and