NO ONE OF THE SAME "SET"
would be willing to spare a single "hack" or one double camellia. Why
did the young man and the young woman do it? They did it principally out
of vanity, in imitation of some rich person who desired to distribute
his money among hard-working folks and at the same time create a
feeling of envy among his fellows and "please the women folk."
LET US HAVE THE MANHOOD AND THE WOMANHOOD,
if we have five hundred or a thousand dollars, to buy those necessaries
of life which will enable us to live without debt after we are settled
for life. We are sailing out of the harbor. Would it not be ridiculous
for us to heave into the water our provisions, as a symbol of our
delirious joy?--would not our ship be a ship of death when we reached
the middle of the sea? There is just as much joy in a simple wedding
which has properly shown our respect for the event as the third in
importance of all which will punctuate our history. We have been born;
we will die;
WE NOW MARRY.
"A man finds himself seven years older, the day after his marriage,"
says Lord Bacon.
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