The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1906-03-14
WORDS OF ADVICE
TO YOUNG MEN CONTEMPLATING
TAKING a WIFE.
Eow They May be Guarded Against
Marrying the Wrong
Woman.


Marrying the Wrong
Woman.
A lecturer dramatically iCQu'red:
Can any one in this room tell me OF
g perfect MANI" There was dead ST.
lence.
Has any one," he continued,
beard Of a perfect woman?"
Then patient.looking little woman
rose in the back part Of tue house and
said: There was one, l have often
heard OF her but she's dead now. She
was my husbands first wife. %
Be prepared for imper1t ctions. No
body is always consistent. The man
OF woman who never made mistake
is a myth. -
Man, are you looking for an angel?
How would you look alongside OF an
angel?
When real life comes to the best
and happiest pair, with It's trouble
and It's care, the tower OF romance
will fall, leaving US In the mud-hut OF
everyday reality.
Man and woman are like two snells
of the oyster-they were MADE 1or
each other.
The man who avoids matrimony on
account OF the cares Of welded life
rivals the Wisacre who secured nlm'
self against corns by having his legs
amputated. u.
Some one has said that it Is in HE
as it is with q kite, 1t will not fly very
high unless it has a string tying II
down, and 80 the man who is TIED
down by half dcg,n responsibilities
and their mother will make a higher
and stronger fight than the bachelor
who. having nothing to keep him
steady, Is always e undering 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 If that does not opeo
bis eyes, nothing else will"
But that sneer has been c2nfuGeo
BY the experience Of many blind schol'
ars like Hood, famous authority on
bees. and Fa9cett, political economist
Of Cambridge and England s most ia,
nous Postmaster General, whose high
ly q.lalifsd wives Wera eyes indeed to
their husbands.
Marriage remoulds character, bright
ems prospects, gives faces to CLOUDS,
meaning to words, will make the birds
sing more sweetiY, the sun shine more
brightly, elevate your hopes, arouse
ambition and give purpose to LIE. Ii
will double joys and divide sorroWs.
Our social chariots should be attach
ed to the stars OF love.
All history and experience have
proven that marriage Is the worlds
civiliz.r, the safety valve OF business
life, the cabinet room where Is devised
most Of the great things OF LIE.
The only permanent builder in the
social arrangements Is love between
man and woman.
A wise marriage leads to the trues;
and happiest life. Many men think
themselves self made who are really
marriage-made.
Napoleon Won his greatest victories
while Josephine was his vile, anc
while be loved her. When our coun'
try's interest hung in the balance at
Valley Forge, Martha Washington
hastened to her George, and urged
him up and Or . victory. Bismarck
and Disraell, who for thirty years
we're the controlling powers4in Euro
pean politics, both owned that they
owed their success to their wives.
Thousands OF wives have been tc
their husbands the inspirers OF Lofty
thoughts, majestic aspirations and
sublime purposes.
Whether man shall be made OF
marred in marriage depends altogeGh'
er upon bis choice Of partner.
Solomon, whose matrimonial ven
lures, were rather multitudinous,
says: a prudent wife is from the
Lord" leaving Us 10 infer where an
imprudent one most come from.
Wadsworth paints the woman you
want.
"a creature not too bright OF good
For human natures daily food,
The reason firm, the temperate will,
Endurance, foresight, strength and
skill;
A perfect woman nobly planned,
To warn, to comfort and command,
And yet spirit still and bright,
With something Of al angel light.
Don't marry for beauty alone. Soc
rates called beauty "a short-liVed ty-
ranny," and Theophrastus pronounced
it "a silent cheat"
The man who marries for beauty
alone is as silly as the man who would
buy house because it had fine flowers
in the front yard.
It takes more than a fair skin,
bright eyes, beautiful form and deli.
cate hands to make q really beautiful
woman. The highest type OF beauty
is pever merely physical; it Is in the
outgleamings Of internal virtues and
sweet graces Of character.
The be: uty that lasts shines In the
virtuous life, sWeetens the voice OF
sympathy, sparkles on the brow OF
wisiom and flashes in the eye OF love-
a lovely soul will glow ia the face.
The really beautiful woman has a
beauty which changes not with years,
and this is the only beauty that can
be relied upon for permanent inhu-
erce with men.
The violet will soon cease to smile
20 ,ers must fade. The love that