Year: 1878

Some close observer of our social rela
tions, having looked about among his mar
RED female acauaintances, ventures to give
the following list, with an attempt to indi.
cate the real reasons which influence too
many to marry. We hope and believe he
Is not correct in the proportion he assigns
to the right motive for marrying, but we
are not sure that all the other motives he
mentions are not more or less influential.
lie says:


MARRYING FOR A HOME.


Number One has married for a home.
She got tired Of working in a factory, or
teaching school, or making dresses, and
she thought married life was nothing on
earth but moonlight walks, buggy rides,
new bonnets, and nothing to do! Well,
she has got her home; whether or no she
IS tired OF the accompanying encumbrances,
this deponent saith not, inasmnch as this
deponent does not positively know.


CONSULTING FAMILY INTERESTS.


Number Two married because she had
seven younger sisters, and papa with a
narrow income. She consulted the in
terests of the family" Perhaps she had
better consulted her own interest by taking
in light washing, or going out 10y the day to
work.


SHE LIKED THE SOUND OF MRS.


Number Three married because Mrs.
sounded so much better than Miss. She
was twenty-nine years and eleven months
old, and another month would have trans.
muted her into regular old maid Think
how awful that would have been!


WANTED SOMEBODY TO PAY HER BILLS FOE HEP.


Number Four married because she
wanted somebody to pay her bills. Her
husband married for precisely the same
reason, SO they are both of them repsnting
at leisure.


NOT GOING TO BE LEFT BEHIND.


Number Five married. because Fannie
White had nice new husband, and she
wasn't going to be left behind! Pity she
couldn't get married as we'll as other
folks


MARRYING FOR MONEY.


Number Six married because she was
poor and wanted riches. Poor child! she
never counted on all other things that
were inseparable from these coveted riches.


SHE LIKED TO TRAVEL.


Number Seven married because she
thought she would like to travel. But Mr..
Number Seven changed his mind after
wards. and all the travelling she has done
has been between the we'll and the back
kitchen door.


MARRYING OUT OF SPITE


Number Eight married out of spite, be.
cause her first love had taken to himself a
second love This piece of retaliation Z
might have done her good at one time, but
in the long run Number Eight found it did |
not pay. {


WANTED SYMPATHY.
Number Nine married because she had
read novels and "wanted sympathy '
Sympathy is a good thing, but it cools S
down at rapid rate if the domestic kettle c
is not kept boiling, and the domestic turkey /
is underdone. Novels and house keepinp r
don't run we'll together in harness, to use a i
sporting phrase, and Number Mines supnlv v
of sympathy didn't hold out very long. S


MARRYING FOR LOVE. e
Number Ten married because she loved u
her husband with all her heart and with all I
her soul. And she loves him still, and
will probably continue to love him, and is
the happiest wife in the world-so she j
says. C
We have the right at last-one which. is
- hon eanot;6ad b,, n das;ro ou,l - 1t h
to improve each other, and to live true and t.
holy lives before God, can not fail to call 81
down the blessings of heaven. But sad is o
the tate OF those who marry from wrong p
motives-to escape their share of life's o.
work, or to get something for which they R
have nothing to give in return. sa


MARRYING FOR MONEY. b
Prominent among the wrong motives for W
marrying is the desire for wealth, Or for oi
the luxuries, the privileges, and the ease to
which wealth is supposed to insure. p,
Wealth is a good thing in itself, and when CT
rightly used, may be made a source of han al
piness to its possessor, and of great benefit in
to the world at large, but as the leading "a
motive for forming matrimonial alliance hi
it almost always proves snare and a curse: m
and those who succeed in making pecuni. OF
arily "good match" generally get misery as Sc
well as money-more Of the former than OF pc
the latter-andl learn, too late, that eupidity Ie
is more dangerous foe to peace of mind -
than even Cupid himself Solon abolished la
The giving of portions with young women st,
in marriage, unless they were only daugh ra
tsrs, for he would not have matrimony be. W
come traffic; and when one asked The. til
nistocles what he thought about marrying as
\ person without fortune, he replied that he