Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1915-12-02
L|FE'S Owe PERMANENT JOB
Marriage Hard to Resign or Get
Fired From.
Furnishes Every Husband n Chance to
he n Great Man-Nonc Cnn Ever
Claim lie Hasn't Had Oppor-
tunitics.

In the December American Magazine
"sid." writing under the title "To Get
Thoroughly Married Takes Time and
Trouble" says:
Some people don't understand marriage.
They think-before tackling it anyway
that It Is a natural institution. Their idea
is that man by nature first loves and then
marries.
Now the love part is natural, but the
marriage part is an artificial scheme
worked out by society to prevent too fire.
quent changes i'm the organization. So
ciety finds n couple Of youngsters who
have a natural attraction for each other
and it says to them Now. isn't this nice
You two think lot of each other don't
you? And you don't want to lose each
other Of course Isn't it a shame you can't
see each other except when Ma or Aunt
Henrietta is home? / wonder If there
isn't something we can do about it. Say,
how would this little plan of mine do
marriage? All you have to do is to agree
to it and sign n little document. Then
you can live together. Yes? You like It?
All right-just you put your names down
here. There now. That's fine Just the
thing"
Then the young folks learn for them
selves the difference between love AMI
marriage. They learn that while love may
turn out to be the short haul marriage is
the long haul. Love may get tired and
want to quit before the piano needs tun-
ing. but marriage runs right on through
the worlds fair. Roosevelt's administra-
ton and the opening of the Panama canal
| 1t becomes the one permanent job of life
! a job hard to resign from and difficult
| to get fred from. Some people get so dis
rustod they can't stand It any longer and
give up in a huff. But there stands So
ciety, pointing the finger of shame at
them and calling them welchers and quit
| ters.
| Others work at the job indiferently
! never win success. never quite fail, and
go on from Year to year afraid to give
! mp but dazed and mystifed until the end
! of their days. Some glare at each other
like meat axes. Others hate each other
| in their hearts. but for the sake Of chill
| dren or for other reasons live in a state
| OF armed peace under flag of truce. In
| cases Of this kind both usually derive
| enormous self-satisfaction out of the for
! titude and self-control which they display.
Many work capably. unseishly and ener
getically at the job and make a great
| success Of 1t. To such as do the job well
| the rewards are greater than any to he
| obtained elsewhere in the world.
! In business. If YOU make a great Sue
cess, there may come time when people
begin to suggest that you ought to get
out and give others a chance. Not SO
with marriage. If you win out in ma tri-
mony nobody wants you TO quit. You are
never superannuated or put out on a
pension. If YOU make a success every
body wants you to keep right on. stay in
the neighborhood, and come around for
the evening.
Marriage furnishes every man a chance
to be a great man. In the married rela-
ton young man can he as wise as Wash
ington, as entertaining as Lincoln and as
+ diplomatic as Bismarck No married man
| ever has the right to stand up before the
world and claim that he hasn't had OPP
portunities.