HINTS ON MATRIMONY.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 139, 3 June 1876, Page 4

HINTS ON MATRIMONY.

■■■: ■ U.V.- )■: V.< „.:----/■'> .-; = .•;■.:, : (Coromandel Mail.) The hußband : men sbbald be careful in picking out a wife to prefer money to every other recommendation. If we consider, the rent and taxes (which latter a wife entails to a burdensome extent), t butchers, -a bakers, tailor e,, milliners, servants, &c., to pay, it will at once convince the ambitious benedict that a Medusa with a long annuity is far** Itnoref desirable thaii a Venus, with 1= nothing .but A* &W •* the, virtues " ,ta recommend her. We have, beard of lovje;. r in' l >a, i .;q9t|age, or whatis^synpuy-; mous, a second pair back, where a finely^ chiselled nose, a dark and i lustrous eye,, and lips like the rosy line of the ocean Bhali, , haye . converted a, potato, and a red herring into' a banquet worthy", of the go^s.. But gentlemen, with appe-tites-larger than their incomes will find that a snub-nose with £500 per annum, is a far. more agreeable companion than even ttfe puresl; S-re^iari without a shilling to call her own.' ... !£.the,jßuitpr; >be" y.ary, very^- poor, and finds that he cannot fascinate" one of the ihree per cents.; he should, in selecting' a parther'fqually poor with himself, be certain to the. preference to elegant aeQompUshmentß, r ,rather than to that; very U jV ; u}gai? : , article, utility; for where,, is the man so dead to the graces .of life as not to see the. superior advantages attendant upon the knowledge of the Italian language 'to that of Italian Irons ? WhaTis a bole in your stock-" ing to one in your wife's manners ? or a buttpnless shirt tO' an embroidered kettle holder ? Who, would not, rather\ lend his ears to the dulcet harmonies of w Rossini or Mansford, than listen to the grating discord of the hearth-stone or s6r'ubbing-brush ? In conclusion, it should be borne in mind that whatever happiness is connected with. a good temper, the possession of property will always confer amiability on the veriest virago; for should your hearth not be rendered a heaven by her presence, how easy ifl'it to; exercise that noblest!principle of 'our nature-^ generosity, and allow 1 the lady a separate maintenance out of her own income. Besides, .the circumstances of getting a lady' with tin may be bonsi'dered' as some proof of affection' — a't'leaWt'ybu are satisfied she does. not 1 marry for a maintenance or for a "home of her own "wherein, should ydii''* bb'fpol enough to jeopardise your : h^ppiuesa "without such a surety, while it was well known that you were a monied man vi you have: reason to suspect that it was the known possession of your wealth that made the fair one prefer you to another — a sad dilemma to find when too late— arid that you had beenduped by women's cunning; that her forethought had kindly and 'affectionately looked forward, ere her marriage, toyour death, by requiring a settlement ere she favored you with her hand at the' altar 1 , J while' her heart was in your pocket— and awake to the truth that your .death* would " be philosophically lamented o'er, with, the conviction of possessing): the little: parchment being its true iinterpretatipn, a settlement...