Why People Marry.

Waipawa Mail, Volume X, Issue 1019, 7 December 1886, Page 4

Why People Marry.

Some marry for the fun of the thing, and never see where it comes in. This is discouraging. Some marry for the sake of a good companion and never discover their mistake. This is lucky. Man is a lioklc “ critter.” Even Adam, who had his wife made to order, found more or less fault with her. Don’t marry a man for his reputation. It is liable to be only a second handed affair borrowed from in's ancestors. Many women have married men for their fine exterior. But that’s all there is to an ancient egg worth mentioning. Marriage resulting from love at first sight is not generally wedded bliss on a par with sour milk. One or the other gets swindled, and often both. Many a man husmarried for beauty, only to learn that be lias paid 20dol. for what can l>e purchased for 25 cents at all druggists.’ This is bard. But few people marry for pure love, and they in after years suspect that what wore at the time promptings of tho tender passion were, in all probability, but the first symptoms of cholera morpus. The man who marries a woman simply because she is a bandy arraignment to have about the bouse, does so from a pure business standpoint, and in the end, if not compelled to support him, she has done better than many women 1 know of.