For Bachelors and Maids.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3471, 28 March 1890, Page 3

For Bachelors and Maids.

foe author of How to be Happy, ' Though' Married,' says: " I quite ;' believe in marrying for gold and working for silver ;'bnt there should ' bo a reasonable chance of getting work '• to do, for it is nothing less than criminal folly to marry on uothing a v/eok, and that uncertoiu—very I ,Ou the other hand, there is some truth in tho . saying that, what will keep one will keep two. Show me ono couple unhappy-merely on'tbe accoutit of their limited circumstances and I will show you ten who are wretched from other circumstances." ' "Thero are bachelors who aro so ultra-prudent, and who hold sueb absurd opinions as to tbe expense of matrimony, that, although they have enough money, they havo not enough I courage, to enter the state. Pitt used to say that he. could not afford to . marry, yet his butcher's bill was so enormous that some one has calculated it as affording his servants about fourteen pounds of meat a day : man arid woman. For the more ■ regulation of his household if for no other reason, he should have taken to himself a wifo. ' " Of course, a young man with a small income cannot afford to marry if he smokes big cigars, and gives expensive drinks to every fool who claps hinron the back and calls him: 'old man,' He inust be particular too, in choosing a wife, to select one who is economical and who can keep house with the least amount of ~- waste, Swift's saying about nets and cages is well-known. He .. thought that one reason why many marriages are unhappy is, because women spend their time in making nets to catch husbands rather than in making cages to keep them in when caught, "We see no reason why a: girl should not do all that is consistent : with self-respect and modesty to < obtain a husband. She should remember, however, that conquests Jiave to be kept as well as made, and 9 that, for a woman to fail to make her home happy*'lb to be a 'Mure' in a more real sense than to have failed in getting a husband,"