MARRYING FOR MONEY.
There is a 'notion current that men very often marry for money; but; in fact, such marriages are rare, at all events among Eng-lish-speaking people. By a man's marryiug for money we mean his marriage with a woman who hvunattractive to him except in' point of fortunei Dr., Johnson pointed out that where such marriages occur the man looks only at tho fortune, and keeps steadily out of view attondant drawbacks. .Most men are endowed with too much sense to contract marriage- under such, conditions. They know too well that the play will not be worth the candle, Rich men and rich women ordinarily view matrimony very differently. A rich man having found the woman who suits him, rarely troubles himself much as to whether she heartily reciprocates the affection he entertains for her,' It is enough for him that he loves her. With the woman it is quite otherwise. She is continually raising the question whether he really loves her for herself, and thus, if she really cares for him, giving herself a vast deal of unnecessary trouble. Some years ago an American lady of large fortune married a Frenchman. Of course, her friends averred, heedless' of the very bad compliment they were paying lier, that he married her for her money; but' one sensibly said: "Well, I think she is very right to marry him, if she likes him. In that case he gets what he wants—the money; she gets what she wants-the man."' The marriage has turned out most happily.' "Rich women continually mar their happiness in life by this morbid dread of being married for their money. They go on year after year thinking that the paragon will appear who is all their fancy painted, and who is to take them for themselves, until at length a period arrives whon their personal attractions wane and they can only be married for their money.' Then some of them, regretting lost chances, give themselves' away after the fashion of the Baroness Burdett : Coutts,' ■■''
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1073, 13 May 1882, Page 2 (Supplement)
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338MARRYING FOR MONEY. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1073, 13 May 1882, Page 2 (Supplement)
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