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Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 5015, 7 February 1885, Page 4

' Almost Stationery.—Sheep-pens. Though'it is very common to reproach old bachelors with their celibacy, and to pity old maids as if "single blessedness" were' a misfortune, yet many married people have seen fit to offer apologies for having entered into what some profane was; has called the " holy, bands.of padlock." One man says he married to get a housekeeper; another to get rid of bad company. Many women 1 declare that they got married for the sake of a home ; few acknowledge that their motive was to get a husband. Goethe averred that he pot married in order to be " respectable." John Wilkes said he got a wife " to please his friends." Wycherley, who espoused his housemaid, said he did it " to spite his relations." A widow who married a second husband, said she wanted somebody to condole with her for the loss of her first. Another, because she thought a wedding would amuse tho children." Another to get rid of incessant importunity from a crowd of suitors. Old maids who get married invariably assure their friends that they thought they would be " more useful" as wives than spinsters. Nevertheless, Quilp gives it as. his opinion that nine-tenths of all persons who marry, Tj-bether Widows or widowers, virgins or bachelors, "do io for the take of—getting ,parri*d,