Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 December 1885 — Wedded Happiness. [ARTICLE]

Wedded Happiness.

It is undoubtedly a fact that many of the young people who get married nowadays want to begin wedded life where their parents leave off, that is, they desire to put on the same style, so to speak, that their fathers and mothers do, who have been perhaps years in obtaining a certain financial and social position. The consequence is that they almost invariably begin with a grand flourish of trumpets, furnish a house extravagantly, give expensive entertainments, and in the end come to grief. They have not, of course, the money to pay for these luxuries, and they rely on tbfeir parents in a great measure for assistance. When this fails their household goods are probably sold under tbe hammer, or the firm from whom they have obtained them on the installment jdan steps in and takes them for non-pavment. Then there is likely a separation; the young man goes one way and the young woman another, and if they are ever reunited it is because they bavo come to the conclusion that this is a practical world, and that people cannot live beyond their incomes without being overtaken with monetary d isaster. In a word, if they dance they must pay the piper. Would it not, then, be better for .young couples to begin in a moderate manner, and live strictly within their means? A well-matched couple can be very happy even in one room, if they •elioose, The old song says very truly, “Be it ever so humble, there’s no place like home,” and fine furniture and a large house do not always bring happiness. That must be in the heart, and if it is there it will glorify even the most unpretentious abode. Tho thought that a young couple are earning everything they have will give a zest to existence that can never be obtained even in a state of partial dependence, and our advice to all young married people is to preserve their selfrespect by never spending a dollar that has not been obtained by them through hard work and self-denial. Let them not be under obligations to their own parents, and they will find, if they are frugal and temperate, that the years will bring them all the wealth and enjoyment that are worth having.—Exchange.