Modern Loveless Marriages

MODERN LOVELESS MARRIAGES

Marrying For a Home a Tiresome Way of Getting a Living – Has Cupid Changed His Name to Cupidity? Stock Market Quotations For Wealthy Suitors : : :

Blind Cupid a Better Guide Than the Rules of Arithmetic – Joy Not on the Bargain Counter – Better Have a Fortune In a Husband Than One With Him : : :

By Rev. Dr. MADISON C. PETERS of New York

A life of loneliness is more honorable than A LOVELESS MARRIAGE. ALL HONOR TO THE WOMEN WHO MAKE THEIR OWN WAY IN THE WORLD RATHER THAN LIVE A LIFE WITH A MAN FOR THE SAKE OF SUPPORT!

And not until our women become independent and self reliant will marriage become what it ought to be - a union on equal terms and a free surrender of the heart. The outward legal forms may be complied with and thus seal the lips of criticisms, but wife she is not who marries either for convenience, position or home.

Marrying for a home is a most tiresome way of getting a living. A marriage without love of the lovable is a humiliating stoop to the dust, a mockery that blushes to the skies. Matrimony is looked upon as a mere matter of money, and CUPID, HAVING GROWN OLD, HAS CHANGED HIS NAME TO CUPIDITY. So common is the mercantile estimate of marriage becoming that I should not be surprised to see the hymeneal market lists chronicled in the newspapers, with the prices current of the Stock Exchange.

Though Cupid is said to be blind, he is a far better guide than the rules of arithmetic. BETTER HAVE A FORTUNE IN YOUR HUSBAND THAN ONE WITH HIM. The man with no money may be poor, but the man who has nothing but money is poorer than he.

Gold cannot buy happiness. Position cannot bring it. It must ever be as clear, sparkling water from the real fountain of life. It must flow from love. What is the interest on $500,000 in comparison to dividends drawn from a loyal heart and an educated brain?

THE DESIRE TO HAVE A HOME IS COMMENDABLE. THE AMBITION TO REACH A HIGH SOCIAL POSITION IS WORTHY. THE HAND THAT HOLDS MONEY AND THE WEDDING RING BOTH IS NOT ALWAYS STAINED WITH UNRIGHTEOUSNESS. BUT MATRIMONIAL HAPPINESS CANNOT BE BOUGHT. JOY IS NOT MANUFACTURED NOR SOLD ON THE BARGAIN COUNTER.