DON’T BE A BACHELOR.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume VIII, Issue 34, 22 August 1891, Page 304

DON’T BE A BACHELOR.

Young man, don’t live a crusty bachelor. It is not good for you. It will neither improve y&Mnorals, your health, nor your beauty ' J Marry as you can make it convenient, and as you can shape your affairs to support a wife. But when you marry don’t fall in love with a face instead of a woman. Remember that common sense is a rare virtue, much better than silver, and gold, and fashion. Don’t court and marry dress and money-bags, simply because it is dress and gold in plenty, but look for some practical sense in a woman first; that is the touchstone to try her other qualities by. 3 When yon have that all else comes. Your wife that is to be, if she is full of common sense will grow to your way of thinking, and make you grow to hers. ° A woman that has womanly love in her heart will find ways to make your love towards her grow as the years grow over you both. s And another thing needs to be heeded, and that is—a common-sense woman is not to be found where fashion insists upon dragging your females into a whirl, where there is simply idle gossip and tattle. Young man, don’t stand looking after that young woman with the distinguished air, the reputation of a flirt mid belle and whose father has heaps of cash ; for it is not impossible that while you are straining your eyes that way, you may be turning your back upon some unobtrusive damsel, whom nature has cut out for your better-half, and who may be just that pleasant-faced, placid-tempered, lovable little creature who will think enough of you to go with you to the end of the world, and stay by and comfort you when you get grey-haired and fidgetty ! 6 Marry, young gentlemen, and keep yourselves out of scrapes. Have something to live for. A man alone in the world isn’t more than half a man and the world wants entire men. ’ So mend yourself and be happy.