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For Young Men Who Are Thinking Of Marriage

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Parent Issue
Day
2
Month
March
Year
1888
Copyright
Public Domain
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Select tho girl. Agree vvith tho giiTs fnther in poliics and the mother in religión. If you have a rival keep an eye on him; if ho is a widower keap two eyes ou bim. Don't swear to tlio girl that you havo nu bad ha bits. it will be enough to sav that you never heard yourself snore in your sleep. Don't put much sweet stuff or paper. If you do you will liear it read in aftur yeara, when your wife has some special purpose, inuiuting upon you the severest puuishmunt known to married man. Go muit! at a rensonable bour in the even:ng. Don't wait till the girl has to throw her whole soul into a yawn that she can't cover wit Ii botli hands. A little thiug like that mav causo a coolness at tlio very beginning of tliu game. If, while wearlog your new summor trousers for the Urst time, you sit down on some molasses candy Ihat little Wil1 o has lcft on the clnür, smile sweelly and romark that you don't ni.nd sitting on molasses candy at all. and tbat "boys will bo bos." Reserve your true foelings for future refeiunco. If, ou tho occasion of your first cali the girl apen whom you have placed your afluctions looks like an iceberg and acts like a cold wave, tako your leave early and stay away. Woiiian in her hours of freeze is uncertain, coy and hard to please. lu cold weather finish saying goodnight in tlio house. Don't stretch it all the way to the front gate, and thus lay tho foundation for future asthma, bronchitis, neuralgia and chronic catarrh, to help you to worry the girl to death after she has niarried you. Don't 1 e about your linancial condition. It is very anuoying to a bride who has pictured for hersolf a life of luxury in hor ancestral halls to loarn too late that you expect her to ask a baldheaded parent who bas been uniformly kind to her to take you in out of the cold. Don' t be too sof t. Don'tsay, "These little hands shall never do a stroke of work when they are mine;" and "you shall havo nothing to do in our home but to sit all day and chirp to tho canaries," as if any sensible woman could be happy fooling away time In that style; and a girl has a line retentivo niemory for the soft thiugs and silly promises of courtship, andoccasionally, in after years, when she is wnshing dinner dishes or patching the west en(l of your trousers, she will remind you of them in a cold, surcas tic, tone of voice. -

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Old News
Ann Arbor Democrat