Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1902 — POVERTY AND MARRIAGE. [ARTICLE]

POVERTY AND MARRIAGE.

Lone Engagements Not Conducive to Prosperity, According to Some. All unconscious of the man in the next seat, two girls on a Germantown train the other morning were discussing engagements. “I don’t care what folks would say,” remarked the one with red hair, "If I really loved a man and he was poor I would Insist upon marrying him at once, rather than submit to a long engagement.” "That’s the way I feel,” said the girl with blue eyes. “The young man who stays single until he can save enough to get married on is up against It At least, that’s what my brother Jack says. Hs says that the trouble is that when a fellow Is engaged to a girl he wants to show her a good time and the consequence is he never saves anything.” “Jack is right" said the girl with red hair, according to the Philadelphia Record. “I know a case that proves it Ths girl has been engaged now for eight years. Her fiance is in business in New York, but he comes over to visit her once a week. He comes over on Saturday afternoon and goes back on Monday morning .Saturday night he always takes her to the theater, and there’s generally a supper afterward. I’m sure that makes a big hole in his salary every week. Now. I • r But the train had pulled Into ths Reading terminal.