WHY MEN DON'T MARRY.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VI, Issue 298, 16 October 1873, Page 9

WHY MEN DON'T MARRY.

The reasons " why men don't marry" were fully explained in a lecture given the other day by the Eev. Henry Morgan to the Toung Men's Christian Association in New York on this question, interesting alike to Christian young women as to Christian young men. The reasons, according to Mr. Morgan, are eight in number, and are as follow: — Ist, because they cannot get the woman they want — they look too high for beauty, talent, and perfe< - tion, which are beyond their reach ;.2.', because they are cowards— they dare not " face the music," and quake at the lightning flashes of a fair maidon's eye; 3d, because they are sceptical — they have no faith in a woman's constancy, and believe her weak and frail ; 4th, because they are selfish and stingy, and do not think they can support wives ; sth, because women of genius are not good housekeepers (the rev. gentleman advised his audience not to marry geniuses); 6th, because of man's own extravagance — many young men spend their incomes foolishly, and cannot affqrd to marry ; 7th, because they are afraid of divorce, which* his made by' the laws too easy — free love, Mr. Morgan thinks, poisoning the system of marriage ; and Btb, because of women's extravagance. It costs as much, the lecturer said, to launch a woman on the sea oi' life in these times as it would to fit out a small schooner. As to sails, cnrdage, pennants, and streamers, the difference, lie thinks, is in favour of the schooner. As to her outfit, she has to be freighted with bonuets, veils, necklaces, eWinu's, pins, chains, bracelets, rings, ruffles, bows, bands, buttons, loops, folds, pipings, plaits, silks, muslins, laces, fans, boots, slippers, parasols, collars, cuffs, .nets, chignons,' waterfalls, " rats," " mice," braids, frizzles, puffs, curls, pannier, tournure, and Grecian bend. What a cargo, ejaculated Mr. Morgan, was this for such a small vessel ! Few are the underwriters who take the risk in such a craft, and few were the men who would marry this "Dolly Varden walking advertisement." T'.ie lecture was heard with deep emotion by a vast concourse of Christian young men, and thote parts of it which referred to women's failings were greeted with wildgapplause.