But this matter of
courtship must have shown you how careless you have been with your money
through all those years you might have been hoarding it for this great
need. But you did not save your wages, probably, or if you did you are
an exceptional young man. You now need money. You should work about
fifteen months before you marry. It will be a long, tedious, unpleasant
pull, trying to the affections, and it is generally very trying to the
health; but it is necessary, and if you have not the persistence to save
money for fifteen months, in the meantime quarreling and making up, with
all the quarters of the moon, you have not the solidity of citizenship,
and will be better unmarried. "Successful love takes a load off our
hearts, and puts it upon our shoulders" says Bovee. Square up your
shoulders! Get under the load so that you can carry it! The days of
responsibility have come. The larger the responsibilities look, the
deeper the young man usually loves. The day of the Chicago fire a man
put up a pine shed on the ruins of a marble palace, and on his sign he
painted
"ALL GONE BUT WIFE AND HOPE!"
People who thought those two things a small capital were greatly
mistaken, for that same man is now rich again.
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