Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1883 — Unhappy Marriages. [ARTICLE]

Unhappy Marriages.

A man should marry, by all means; yet I am convinced that the greater part of marriages are unhappy, and this is not an opinion I give as coming from myself; it is that of a very excellent, agreeable and sensible lady, who married the man of her choice, and has not encountered ostensibly any extraordinary misfortune, as a loss of health, riches, childreh, etc. She told me this unreservedly, and I never liad any reason to doubt her sincerity. For all this, I am convinced that a man cannot be truly happy without a wife. It is a strange state of things we live in. A tendency so natnral as that of the union of the sexes ought to lead only to the most harmless results; yet the reverse is the fact. There is certainly something radically wrong in the constitution of society. The times are out of joint. It is strange, too, what little real liberty of choice is exercised by those even who marry according to what is thought their own inclinations. The deceptions which the two sexes play off upon each oth§r bring os many ill-assorted couples into the bonds of Hymen as ever could be done by the arbitrary pairings of a legal matchmaker. Many a man thinks lie marries by choice who only marries by accident. In this res{>ect men have less the advantage of women titan is generally supposed. —On e of Jawl Byrons Let* tern,