Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 115, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1911 — Gospel According to Mrs. Solomon. [ARTICLE]

Gospel According to Mrs. Solomon.

How long, oh simple one, wilt thou continue to marry believing that courtship is a sample of matrimony? Go to! I say unto thee, it is but as the show window unto the shop; for it containeth all the attractions. Yet, once thou hast passed within, things look so different Verily, before marriage, every damsel thinketh her beloved the most promising man in world. Yea, and this is true; ’but a wise damsel shall perceive that, though his years were 999, no man could do all these things which a lover promiseth in one idle half hour upon the veranda. And 10, when it cometh time to redeem his pledges, he declareth that he hath lost the ticket!

. Behold, before the marriage he is astonished that she would desire anything besides a pat upon the head. Before marriage he avoweth: ‘‘Thou art very dear!” Yet after marriage he declareth: “Yea, thou art too dear!” Before marriage he thinketh in his heart: “There is no other like unto her!” And after marriage he v thanketh heaven that this is so. Before marriage he investeth his sheckels in flowers and bonbons and burnt offerings, and after marriage he expecteth that she shall, by economy, repay the investment with interest.

For, In the days of bachelorhood, he hath heard It said many times that two can live as cheaply as one, and he Insisteth that she shall prove it. Yea, and likewise, a man thinketh so much of a woman during courtship that he maketh up for lost time by never thinking of her thereafter! Verily, verily, the only way to find any man out Is to marry him, and then peradventure thou shalt find him out, early and late, even until the wee of the morning. Go' to! Every damsel shall be disappointed In marriage! For every damsel expecteth to wed an angel, and when she awakeneth to find herself married unto a man, she shall cry out: “Alas, I have been goldbricked ! ” Yea I say unto thee, my daughter, angels do not marry!