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Marriage And Style Of Living

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Parent Issue
Day
7
Month
December
Year
1860
Copyright
Public Domain
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Nunibors do and will reinain au -pecially ainoug our upper classes, 'rom ncceisities arufic;aliy creat;:i pr rratuitonsly supposed. Yoiinger sos are lutly doomud to celibacy, hot béftrryhig incoiue is unattai.iable y tiieii!, but beoause pnjudk-o, DustUiB), jrklc qt ? i;! ■ ;, forbids the.!) to toil fur auimeat. Jiy inberitance, or by Ublie cinployinent, they póssess pcrhapa iust suui.-ieui to pcvuiit tWrn to i :hc pieasures aad aiucailiï3 oí' a ívjw York Kíc; misuolianjüíis bOüit;ty staads tlieni instiiud of a domestic circle - -i lie club supplíes the plucu of n lióme - vagrant and disiTputablo amours (or aniours tliat ought to be disreputable) uuikü tlwtn unambitious and uiiüt. í'or wivcs, auu l'iey prefor to rest saüsfiud with a pleajiut ralher than labor for a happy and vvortliy exi.-itenoo. Others aga'ui possess an incomo a:nply suílioieut í'jr th support of a wüío aud Kuuüy, and will uot belicvo it to be so. - Their ideas of thfi style and comfort m i it is necBsimry to Uve aro forged on a uouvcntional and uurcasanable standard. Thejf will not condusenud to tiie taueied fridignitie, or they cauuot endure the trivial privations of ceonouiy - they will not ask tho woinan oí 'their dioico to hare with them any homo lessiuxurious than she bas beau aocustouud to, and tbey oondeuin her to live without lov ratuur tima exposé her to live without a carriáge' God only kiiows how many noble crea tui-os havo their happinüs.i s:ioriíiced -lo this miserable blunder - -now nuny piue aw.iy exiatünce in desolate and druury siiigleüèas, and lúxuries on whieh they are no'; dopendent, aud fp!o:,dor which confers no joy, wíio would tharikfully have dwelt iu the huuiblest cott;io, and been contcuted with tba simplest dress, and have biest the oné aaid embelllshed the other it' ouly tiie men to v.ii'un the}7 have their hear -1 far less l-;do a:id more ti-uat'aith ia wtjumn's love aud seu.se aud eapacily oí selfabnegaf.0,1. A higher and moro juijl o'ónceptión of the úiáteílala whitíH reaHy1 mate up t!ie sum of human enjoynient - a sounder estiinate of the relativo valué of .euríhly pos8ftB8Ípoa - :a more frequent habit oí' divina; down throunh the . conventional to il - and á kuowledge of how muoh i-ofinenu'ut, how mueh comfort how much serene content aro compatible witli the scantieot me im, where tisera is souse and courage to face the faet aud control the fanoy- would in half a genejaijion re ducu t'ao millioo and a quarter oí' spinsters we have spoken oí' to a few hunctred tinmsiuxis. and raisointo the oondition of haraowd, happy wives thü vast majority of thoso "bvi.iutiful lay nuus," as they havo been oalled, whose iad, unnatural, objectlesá sxistcuce, whose wasted powers of giving and receiving j'y, it inakjs the hoart bleed to wituess.

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