Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 December 1883 — Marriage. [ARTICLE]

Marriage.

Mr. Joshua Billings quails not when saying that “MaYriqge is a fair transaction on the face ov it ; but there is quite too often put-up jobs in it. Whoever it wnz that first/put on the silken harness must have made a good thing of it, or so menny of tlieir posterity would not hev harnesed up since and drove out. There iz a great moral grip in marriage; it is the mortar that holds the soshul bricks together. But there ain’t but few pholks who put tlinre money in matrimony who could sit down and give a good written opinvun wbv on earth they cum to did it. Sum marry for money and don’t see it. Some marry because they think wimmin will be scarce next year, and live to wonder how the crops hold out. Sum marry for love without a cent in their poekit, nor a friend in the world, nor'a drop of pedigree. This looks desperate, but it iz the strength of the game.”