Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-04

matrimony
| TO MARRY OUT OF YOUR CLASS
This is true whether you marry above or es,.r
Yourself whether you have to undergo the torture of "a
azlng that you are being dragged down by your nus
agony of being hosted to his level Ths-s ~
no peace nor happiness in either process.
II you would be happy though married don't r,.
out Of your own class either financially socially Intel
OF the least important equality Is the matte,
OF money but this is only unimportant when the advsn
age of money is with the man. poor girl may marry
rich without endangerng their of domAso
bliss, since custom makes the purse bearer and
woman the recipient of his generosity but man
marries a rich woman at his peril
Marry in your own social class Men make the mia
take Of marrying out of their order ofener than
women do because there is tradition the husband
lifts the wife to his social level That may be rrs
abroad, where the wife Of duke becomes a duchess
Enough he took her from the sums but 1t true
mans social position is determined mainly by vita
ANOTHER ILLUSION
The Illusion also obtains among that they .~n A.
yelop their wives and girl can be changed into
man who of cultured refined people Ana
whose mother and sisters are gentlewomen often s a
ries girl beneath the social scale one wb
has had little education whose family is and nos
and whose associations have been common and vulgar
He believes that marriage will change her into tn.
likeness OF his mother and sister but stronger
than marriage and as she grows older she like
her own people You cannot change blood breeding
The Flanders mare remains the Flanders to the
Of the chapter She never becomes thoroughbred
the whose taste is for thoroughbreds will him.
self and her long they live demanding her
the impossible expecting in her the qualities that
right expect.
n heP
cal class God pity him and her both for there moth
Ing else earth that gets much woman's nerves
there be nothing decorating mans VANITY
than wife who stands in the attitude gchoo,
mistress and mistress of department and who is
inually correcting him and telling him what he do
and mustn't do
THE REAL CAUSE
Nine-tenths of the tragedies matrimony ara RI.
direct results of people not marrying their own intel
lectual class Men captured by beautiful face marry
whose heads stuffed with sswdust Trnratu.
girls, blinded by romance marry with no mora in
teligence than taior's dummy or nen WIZ o. ~.
big Drained great-souled of sympa-
thy find out that they tied for life to those with
whom they have not thought in com
mon and who do not understand them II "a AE II
vitality alive bound hand foot TO a corrna
religious. If place stress the moralite.
and the conventions marry of the same III
ments. Don't poor weak sinner believing that
you forgive hs-or her-fsult, and that you will
reform him her.
You may forgive but will never forget and ALWAYS
the blackness Of the wrong that been done and
that cannot be ignored will shadow your happiness
Not often a marries with oo,A
sonally he does however but 1t almost turns ou
we'll No matter how straight the wife walks the rms
Is always suspicious of her times of doue,
stress by throws up to her the thin
that she most wishes forgotten. is a and
ungenerous thing to do. but very human.
The who has his wild oats fare
the when he marries So does his wife for men
and women sinners are not Judged by the stand
people recalling her husbands past than II
for husband to know that gossip busy with his 4fe
but all the doubtless wit
Christian wife who is lifting him to the higher
life could unfold tale of suffering that wouldn't give
the early martyrs anything him.
We had well face the first as last that han
piness in matrimony is to be found only In congen
atty and like best and along comfortably
with those who are born to the things that
were, who have about the same amount money the
same education who used to the convention,
and who have the same tastes in literature and thai
we have.