MATRIMONIAL " CHANCES."
As to the chance involved in marriage, the more we reduce it to a minimum by care and judgment and good sense the better. There is no surer preparation for misery, one would think, than to accustom a young girl to think of every offer of marriage as a ' chance ' to be eagerly seized as a fish swallows the bait, without knowing who or what is at the other end of- the fishing-line. So long as It is the custom of society for men to ask the momentous question and for the women only to answer it — and this custom will probably last, in spite of cerfain philosophers, for ever— so long there will be a little more element of chance in the marriage relations of women than men.
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Observer, Volume 7, Issue 335, 9 May 1885, Page 4
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131MATRIMONIAL " CHANCES." Observer, Volume 7, Issue 335, 9 May 1885, Page 4
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