WHOM TO MARRY.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7825, 18 August 1887, Page 4

WHOM TO MARRY.

I charge you don't marry a man of evil habits. If he will not now resist them, he certainly will not when lip has gained the prize. The alnishous.es are full of women who thought they could reform their husbands. No man twenty-five years of age, if he is addicted to intoxicants, can be reformed by a wife, for the present day his system is full ef strychnine, mix' votuica, logwood, and other poisons. He is past reform ; it is like taking a wheelbarrow on the tracks of the Hudson River railroad to stop the lightning express. I would also charge you to avoid alliance with extremely sellish men ; those who think of their business and nothing else. Some, men are so much married to their bnsiness that their marriage to you would be absolute bigamy. In India the wife leaps upon the funeral pyre of hoy dead husband ; liut in America many wives leap upon the funeral pyre of their liviug husbands. I counsel you to unite with a man who is a fortune in himself. Lands, money, and the like are all well enough, but two or three unlucky investments may upturn them. There are men who are fortunes in themselves, who arc always genial and large-hearted. But T would also charge you, don't look for a perfect man. If you find a man who is perfect, who is incapable of mistakes, don't unite yourself with him ; what a wife you would make for him ! In other words there are no perfect men. The only perfect pair slid down the banks of Paradise together.