MOMENTS OF INTEREST

Bush Advocate, Volume XVI, Issue 603, 3 January 1905, Page 7

MOMENTS OF INTEREST

+-. : A RECKLESS RUSH. But from any point of view, it is wonderful with what recklessness women rush into matrimony. They don't even take a man's business into consideration, and the business determines the man. For instance, a young woman who. is marrying a clergyman should ask herself before she takes the fatal step whether she is meek and lowly enough in spirit to wear made-over dresses and last year's hats, because the congregation hold that good clothes are sinful in the minister's wife. She should also reflect that a preacher is saturated with adoration, and that it will be necessary to give her husband a double-distil-led brand of flattery if she wants to keep ia the, running. No jealous woman who cannot distinguish between a spiritual interest in her' sister soul and a bodily interest in her heart should marry, a preacher, unless she is starting out to hunt for trouble. If a doctor proposes^ — a real doctor, who does his duty — a woman should take into consideration whether she would , rather have a homoeopathic dose of his society than an allopathic dose of a business man's. 'She should know that he will have no. time for society, and little f or hia -family. His hours, when not office hours, arc spent in study or visiting patients. He never keeps engagements with, his wife, and life, with him is a waiting game, where she is always on the ragged edge of uncertainty. For the methodical woman matrimony with a doctor is a bad risk. 'The curious woman should never marry a lawyer. If he is successful in divorcing couples who have gone astray, or shielding the guilty who ought to be punished, ho is bound to have secrets from his little tootsie-wootsie of a wife that she is dying to find out, and a husband who knows the salient facts of a scandal and won't' tell them is an aggravation that is enough to drive woman into the divorce-court herself. The woman who contemplates -marrying an author must ask herself if she can bear the inevitable comparison with the inimitable perfections of the heroines her husband creates. It must be a little trying, to her ;a sawed-off woman, with a dummy' figure and half-coloured hair, to read the^ description of a gorgeous creature seveu foot high* with a roaeleaf skin and golden 1 locks, and know that she is the ideal of feminine pulchritude her husband cherishes in. his secret soul. The woman who marries an actor must consider if she can bear to see the man she loves make love to another woman, and throw enough spirit into the scene to make it go, without wanting to tear the stage heroine's hair, and read the riot act to Romeo when he gets home. Many women have tried this. Few have succeeded. Hence the brevity, of stage marriagesr • A politician's wife is either his good or evil genius. No woman should marry a politician unless nature has- gifted her with the glad hand, and who is hot willing to put the red plush offering of the constituents in the best room. Furthermore, she must reflect that her husband must give the best of himself to the public, and that his smiles and diplomacy are too valuable for home consumption. - Musicians are always nervous and irritable, and the woman? who marries one may look out for discord. Any woman who undertakes to be a high C affinity to a musical artist should examine herself closely, and ascertain if she has the temper of an. angel, and is thoroughly inoculated against the. tendency to talk back, i. The journalist's wife must smash the clock and burn up the .time-table; the student's wife must be. prepared to run things for her unworldly spouse, while thi« artist's wife must subscribe to . the theory that her husband's admiration of a pretty model is a case of art for art's sake. On. the whole, the business man is about tho safest matrimonial chance. He is used to' charging things up to "profit and loss," and he not only generally jtrikes a, good average of domesticity, ( but makes the best of his wife's faults and foibles.