MARRYING "DON'TS."

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVIII, Issue 81918, 22 February 1907, Page 4

MARRYING "DON'TS."

OLD KING'S SON'S ADVICE TO BACHELORS. new yor. k, Mr .John 1). Rockefelloi', junr., the son of the multi-millionaire oil king, advises young men who intend to marly not to select a w.fe lor Iter monev. Addressing the unmarried members of his Bible class yesterday he sa'd: - ■'-Many men have ruined their prospects in life by tak.ng the wrong suit of a wile. Some men have picked ou; wives only for tlieir money. Tliev have realised later on that" it was a great mi.take.

-V man must he sure to select for his life partner a woman whose temperament is like his own. if he does not. hi* w;fe will he most. apt. in lime, to take him from li;s natural business tendenc.es. She may th.nk lie wou.d do better in some other sphere and unwittingly influence him to take a step that will mean li:s> business run. "i want you unmarried mc;i to consider this serious. Don't marry a Woman who is not in full xvinp'itby with your ideas. Mie wllbe a coiistant handicap to you. it k e.isv for a woman to make or mar the Miceess of her husband.

"Don't marry a woman simply because she is pretty. Common .-ease is what coiinU if you gel the right kind of a w fe you will be gnatiy helped. If yon don't yon would be beLter oil' w.thout one.''

Mr Rockefeller concluded with a little homily on success in life generadv. "Men think the idea of being tied to their mother's apron str-ngsf as they call it, is beneath them,-' iie sa it '"The man who starts out with the intent:on of not doing anythng Ilia. his mother would not wish him to do and the one who sticks to this principle is the one who must go ahead."