You could never get one as a single man, perhaps, because you would not
need one.
YOU WILL BE SAFER
as a married man. It seems to me that a virtuous, sober, christian,
unmarried man should have twice the credit of a married man, for he is
certainly exposed to thousands of extra temptations. Everything is
natural in marriage. The builder has "builded wiser than he knew." At
thirty-five he finds himself well along on the successful journey of
life. His bachelor friend who has lived a selfish existence is poorer,
has lost the charm of youth, and is skurrying around to get a wife who
will be a queen and slave at the same time. His bachelor friend is
A LAUGHING-STOCK
among the last crop of young girls, who can recollect how he went with
their married sisters, and he will be satisfied with nothing above
eighteen, though his hair is dropping out, or frosting like a cold night
in September. If he had not been so selfish he would have been married
eight or ten years ago. Now
NATURE BEGINS TO ASSERT HERSELF.
The friends of his youth have formed the new ties that have come with
the march of the years.
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