. How to be happy though married. Being a handbook to marriage . TE. Go, draw asiJc the curtains, and discoverThe several caskets to this noble prince :—Now make your choice.—S/tal^cspcare. If, as Plutarch adviseth, one must eat modiiim salts, a bushel of salt,with him before he choose his friend, what care should be had in choosinga wife—his second self! How solicitous should he be to know her qualitiesand behaviour ! and, when he is assured of them, not to prefer birth, for-tune, beauty, before bringing up and good conditions.—Robert Burton. HETHER a man shall be made or marred bymarriage gr
. How to be happy though married. Being a handbook to marriage . TE. Go, draw asiJc the curtains, and discoverThe several caskets to this noble prince :—Now make your choice.—S/tal^cspcare. If, as Plutarch adviseth, one must eat modiiim salts, a bushel of salt,with him before he choose his friend, what care should be had in choosinga wife—his second self! How solicitous should he be to know her qualitiesand behaviour ! and, when he is assured of them, not to prefer birth, for-tune, beauty, before bringing up and good conditions.—Robert Burton. HETHER a man shall be made or marred bymarriage greatly depends upon the choice hemakes of a wife. Nothing is better than a goodwoman, nor anything worse than a bad idea of the great electrician Edisonsmarrying was first suggested by an intimate friend, who madethe point that he needed a mistress to preside over his largehouse, which was being managed by a housekeeper and sevcraservants. Although a very shy man, he seemed pleased witlthe proposition, and timidly inquired he should marry. 34 liOlV TO BE HAPPY THOUGH MARRIED. The friend somewhat testily replied, Any one; that a man^Yho had so little sentiment in his soul as to ask such a questionought to be satisfied with anything that wore a petticoat andwas decent. Woe to the man who follows such careless advice as this,and marries any one, for what was said by the fox to thesick lion might be said with equal truth to Hymen : I noticethat there are many prints of feet entering your cave, but I seeno trace of any returning. Before taking the irrevocable stepchoose well, for your choice though brief is yet endless. And,first, we make the obvious suggestion that it is useless to seekperfection in a wife, even though you may fancy yourselfcapable of giving an adequate return as did the author of thefollowing advertisement: Wanted by a Young Gentlemanjust beginning Housekeeping, a Lady between Eighteen andTwenty-five Years of Age, with a good Education, and a
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