se thought her the superior of
all.

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Adaptation, Conjugal Affection, and Fatal Errors.

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ADVICE TO THE MARRIED AND UNMARRIED.

1. MARRYING FOR WEALTH.--Those who marry for wealth often get what they
marry and nothing else; for rich girls, besides being generally destitute
of both industry and economy, are generally extravagant in their
expenditures, and require servants enough to dissipate a fortune. They
generally have insatiable wants, yet feel that they deserve to be indulged
in everything, because they placed their husbands under obligation to them
by bringing them a dowry. And then the mere idea of living on the money of
a wife, and of being supported by her, is enough to tantalize any man of an
independent spirit.

2. SELF-SUPPORT.--What spirited husband would not prefer to support both
himself and wife, rather than submit to this perpetual bondage of
obligation. To live upon a father, or take a patrimony from him, is quite
bad enough; but to run in debt to a wife, and owe her a living, is a little
too aggravating for endurance, especially if there be not perfect
cordiality between the two, which cannot be the case in money matches.
Better live wifeless, or anything else, rather than marry for money.

3. MONEY-SEEKERS.--Shame on sordid wife-seekers, or, rather, money-seekers;
for it is not a wife that they seek, but only filthy lucre! They violate
all their other faculties simply to gratify miserly desire. Verily such
"have their reward"!

4. THE PENITENT HOUR.--And to you, young ladies, let me say with great
emphasis, that those who court and marry you because you are rich, will
make you rue the day of your pecuniary espousals. They care not for you,
but only your money, and when they get that, will be liable to neglect or
abuse you, and probably squander it, leaving you destitute and abandoning
you to your fate.

5. INDUSTRY THE SIGN OF NOBILITY.--Marry a working, industrious young lady,
whose constitution is strong, flesh solid, and health unimpaired by
confinement, bad habits, or late hours. Give me a plain, home-spun farmer's
daughter, and you may have all the rich and fashionable belles of our
cities and villages.

[Illustration: AN ILL-MATED COUPLE.]

6. WASP WAISTS.--Marrying small waists is attended with consequences
scarcely less disastrous than marrying {183} rich and fashionable girls. An
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