Show THE fAM LY C A U i BY COMMERCIAL iL MATRIMONY i I MADISON 0 PETERS PETERS Many are the parents parents with whom fine irresistible family and wealth are arc irresistible ble potent potentialities in the qualification of a suitor When you ou hear bear that a young woman is engaged to 10 be married the f first r t Ques Question question question ques- ques tion asked is Is 18 she doing well welI Which is to ask He he money money Thus Thusis is happiness bartered away away for worldly display and the very of civilization civilization a. a tion surrendered to its foes and all its treasures laid waste To make malie a mere business of marriage To call it il a living 1 vocation vocation Career career ca reer Is but to pervert degrade and disparage dis dis- A contract of f all most sacred and dear Marry a man for his money money and lie ne will find it out shortly What sublime contempt a man must have hav for lor one who simply loves his pocketbook Why not love his store or factory his farm or his lumber yard 7 Many lany a woman woman feigns to to love lovo a man map I who has money morey whom she would positively tin hate if he were poor The love loe of money is a miserly pretense of affection affection af that leads to discontent distrust dis dis- trust disgust and divorce as soon as men find it out Many a rich mans man's wife has not the privilege or the money or the good times her servants hav have Men 1 who carry a load of care bowan how bow Can an they carry a burd n of love 10 Better Better Better Bet Bet- ter have a 3 fortune fortuno in m your husband than one with your husband What a avails ails it it how high a mans man's family be if he be below low himself What respect ca an woman have for a man who is rich in money but poor in ill all ll tho thoe e elements that make up a man 1 Can ancestry or wealth cover up un men mental mental tal imbecility and moral and mor l baseness 1 What is the tho interest on or 01 even O in comparison to dividends dividends dividends divi divi- drawn from a loyal loya heart and an educated brain f She he wI who o marries merel merely comm commercially will vi find that she sho had made nado a terrible bargain that her life wi will be one ono of riMed misery and her old age will be like a crag on on the bleak side lide of a Des les- Desert lesert ert mountain where cold moonbeams sometimes glitter but no sunshine ever over falls no flowers bloom no birds sing bot bat wild storms and hoarse thunders thun thun- ders roar arid and through the sweeping storm shall shaIl be heard G God Gods God's ds d's s 's stern voice Your riches are corrupted corr your our garments garments gar gaD ments are moth eaten your our gold and silver are aro cankered and the ru rust t of them shall shaH be a swift witness against YOU rou you and rand and cat eat your flesh as it were Money Mones' itself furnishes no happiness and provides no certainty y in the tho home foundations There are are many palaces where wealth anticipates every want and yet ret where a skeleton more more grim rim than death haunts the cupboard and an ache sharper than consumption's tooth gnaws at the heart Moreover there is no no certainty in inthe in inthe the tho possession of money moner The ri rich h of today are tomorrows tomorrow's poor Croesus whose name is iF the synonym for wealth was himself in his old age sup supported by the charity of Cyrus Eighty per cent of the great leaders in in It all an walks of life in America came from tho farm and the rural Tural districts Our amous famous men began their married ate ife in in a humble bumble way Character is the determining factor behind money moner intellect and love and so it is is the greater force in human life Commercial matrimony is an evil peculiar peculiar peculiar pe pe- pe- pe culiar to our time Tl The e gold fever is epidemic and the death rate is a appall appall- K ing mg We put the mark of Cain upon the theman theman man inan who takes a bride and do not allow allow al al- al- al low the tho grave to erase the foul blot blotS from S his memory What shall shaU we say Bay of tho the woman who has her price and often turning what is pure and noble away waits for the man who ho is willing to pay for his victims victim s 's marriage What shall shaH we say of the mother who places her daughter on the social auction block and knocks her down to the highest bidder She Sho who through the solemn rite of matrimony puts her ha hand haDd d in the hand of a man for houses housos lands ands and possessions possessions posses posses- and not for love loe is not a wife Promising as the prize may seem it itis is is rare that she who marries for money fares ares well She finds that a serpent often lies coiled among th the orange bIos blos |