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+The Project Gutenberg EBook of How to Marry Well, by Mrs. Hungerford
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+Title: How to Marry Well
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+Author: Mrs. Hungerford
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+Release Date: December 25, 2008 [EBook #27624]
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+Language: English
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+*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HOW TO MARRY WELL ***
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+Produced by Daniel Fromont
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+[Transcriber's note: Mrs. Hungerford (Margaret Wolfe Hamilton)
+(1855?-1897) "How to marry well" (from The Ladies' Home Journal
+vol. VII No IV Philadelphia March 1890 p.6)]
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+The Duchess
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+
+How to marry well
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+
+Some girls start in life with the idea that to snub the opposite sex is
+the surest way of bringing it to their feet. All such imaginings are
+vain! A man may be amused by the coquettish impertinences of a girl, he
+may even be attracted by it to a certain extent, but in the end he
+feels repulsion, and unless it be the exception that proves the rule,
+hastens away presently to lay his name and fortune at the disposal of
+some more modest girl.
+
+To marry _well_ is the note that strikes more clearly on the brain of
+the débutante's mother than on the ear of that interesting person
+herself. A girl starting in life feels all the world is before her
+where to choose. She gives, indeed, too little thought to the subject.
+She comes fresh from the schoolroom into the crowded drawing-room,
+thinking only how best to enjoy herself. The thought of marriage, if
+near, is yet so far, that it hardly interferes with her pleasure in the
+waltz, the theatre, or the eternal afternoon tea.
+
+It is a pity that the educational standard fixed for young girls
+now-a-days is of so low an order. A smattering of French, a word or two
+of German, an _idea_ of what music really means, as gained from a three
+years' acquaintance with scales and movements, and songs without
+words--this is all! There is, of course, a good deal of reading with
+scientific masters that serves only to puzzle the brains half given to
+the matter in hand, and then the girl is emancipated from the
+schoolroom, and let loose upon society to "be settled in life," says
+Mamma.
+
+Some of these girls _do_ marry well--surprisingly so! But they are
+amongst the few. As for the rest, they make their own lives and their
+husband's a burden to them. Without having time given them to mature
+their ideas, these latter are hurried into matrimony while still
+children, without having formed a conception of the terrible
+responsibility that attaches itself to every human soul who agrees to
+join itself to another.
+
+These latter do not make good matches in any one sense of the word. The
+struggling barrister, the clerk, the curate, the brainless masher--such
+are their prey; and if they make richer prizes than these, still the
+match cannot be called _good;_ presently there is dis-union as the
+clever husband finds the pretty but nonsensical wife utterly unable to
+follow him through the paths of life that Fate has opened out to him.
+
+It is a common idea that men care only for beauty, and are to be
+attracted by no lesser virtue--if virtue it may be called. This is a
+most gross error that even the earliest of our thinkers has laid bare.
+What says Thomas Carew:
+
+  "But a smooth and steadfast mind,
+  Gentle thoughts and calm desires,
+  Hearts with equal love combined,
+  Kindle never-dying fires:--
+  Where these are not, I despise
+  Lovely cheeks or lips or eyes."
+
+
+We see, then, that there are things more desirable to the masculine
+mind than the mere charms of the flesh. To be beautiful is a good
+thing, for which we should thank Nature--to be attractive, morally,
+rather than physically, is, however, a thing for which we should thank
+Nature even more, if she be good enough to have endowed us with that
+lasting quality. Let a girl learn once for all that her little
+schoolgirl airs and graces can please only the unintellectual of her
+set, that to make a good match, in the most noble sense of the word, is
+to form herself to be the equal of the man she marries, and all will be
+right. I speak advisedly, because a girl who has the courage to so plan
+out her future is very unlikely to wed with any save the most desirable
+of the other sex.
+
+But what _is_ a good match? Does it mean a man with money only, or
+position only, or intellect only, or only a capacity for being good
+humored under each and every circumstance? The common acceptation of
+the term means a man in such a moneyed position that he can place his
+wife considerably above that of her friends, so far as money goes. And
+that is a very good thing too, so far as it goes. But to be rich is not
+everything! The merely sordid, the entirely uneducated can rise to this
+height, but surely to make a _good_ match one's husband should be the
+possessor of something more than money. He should be cultured, refined,
+intelligent, and therefore the girl who wishes to mate with him, should
+take care to be cultured and refined herself. Half the bad matches in
+the world are caused either by the educated women marrying the man
+thoroughly beneath her in all moral qualities, or the man who has spent
+his life cultivating his mind, falling a slave to the petty fascination
+of a pretty woman who has only beauty to give him--nothing more!
+
+What girls should never forget is to be _neat!_ Not primly so, but
+daintily so. The girl well got up, with irreproachable gloves, and
+shoes that fit, though her gown be only cotton, yet if it be well
+turned out, may compete with the richest, while the slovenly dresser,
+who scorns or forgets to give attention to details, is passed over by
+the discontented eye, though her gown may be a masterpiece of Worth.
+
+A girl should learn to put her gown on properly. No creature living
+takes more heed of externals than your orthodox man. He may not know
+the price, color, or material of your clothes, but he will know to a
+nicety whether you are well or badly gowned.
+
+One special point I would impress upon the girl who desires, (as all
+girls do) to range themselves well, to make a good marriage--is to be
+_gentle_. The craze for vivacity, for the free and easy style that
+border so closely on the manners of the _demi monde_ that distinguished
+the society of ten years ago has providentially died a natural death.
+Now-a-days, men are sensible enough to look for _comfort_ in their
+married lives. And surely the knowledge that one's future wife has a
+heart as tender as it is sympathetic should, and does, go far to
+arrange a man's decision of who shall be the partner of his daily life.
+
+I was much struck by a little incident that occurred last year, and
+helped to prove the truth of this argument. I, amongst others,
+belonging to a large party who were waiting at a railway station for
+the train that was to carry us down to a garden party at one of the
+many lovely places on the Thames, saw an old man, a decrepit creature,
+bowed and palsied, making his way to where the third-class compartment
+would be. His arms were full of bundles of various sizes. Coming near a
+truck, the old man, who was half blind, marched against the edge of it,
+and all his little bundles fell helplessly to the ground. Most of the
+young people belonging to our party broke into an irresistible laugh.
+They were not so much to be blamed. Youth _will_ see amusement in even
+trifles, but there was one amongst us who did not laugh. The old man's
+chagrin seemed to touch _her_. She went quickly forward, and as he
+groped nervously for his parcels she lifted them one by one, and laid
+them in his arms. She was not a strictly pretty girl, but there was
+dignity and sweetness both in her face and in her action. I noticed
+that a young man, one of our party, watched her intently. He was rich,
+titled, one of _the_ matches of the London season. Supreme admiration
+showed itself in his face. He demanded an introduction. I gave it. In
+six months they were man and wife. _She_ made a good match, and so did
+he, in every sense of the word.
+
+There is one last remark, however, and a vital one, that I must make.
+No match, however distinguished either by money or position, can be
+called a _good_ one unless "love," who "is a great Master," be the very
+core of it.
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+Title: How to Marry Well
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+Produced by Daniel Fromont
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+[Transcriber's note: Mrs. Hungerford (Margaret Wolfe Hamilton)
+(1855?-1897) "How to marry well" (from The Ladies' Home Journal
+vol. VII No IV Philadelphia March 1890 p.6)]
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+The Duchess
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+How to marry well
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+
+Some girls start in life with the idea that to snub the opposite sex is
+the surest way of bringing it to their feet. All such imaginings are
+vain! A man may be amused by the coquettish impertinences of a girl, he
+may even be attracted by it to a certain extent, but in the end he
+feels repulsion, and unless it be the exception that proves the rule,
+hastens away presently to lay his name and fortune at the disposal of
+some more modest girl.
+
+To marry _well_ is the note that strikes more clearly on the brain of
+the debutante's mother than on the ear of that interesting person
+herself. A girl starting in life feels all the world is before her
+where to choose. She gives, indeed, too little thought to the subject.
+She comes fresh from the schoolroom into the crowded drawing-room,
+thinking only how best to enjoy herself. The thought of marriage, if
+near, is yet so far, that it hardly interferes with her pleasure in the
+waltz, the theatre, or the eternal afternoon tea.
+
+It is a pity that the educational standard fixed for young girls
+now-a-days is of so low an order. A smattering of French, a word or two
+of German, an _idea_ of what music really means, as gained from a three
+years' acquaintance with scales and movements, and songs without
+words--this is all! There is, of course, a good deal of reading with
+scientific masters that serves only to puzzle the brains half given to
+the matter in hand, and then the girl is emancipated from the
+schoolroom, and let loose upon society to "be settled in life," says
+Mamma.
+
+Some of these girls _do_ marry well--surprisingly so! But they are
+amongst the few. As for the rest, they make their own lives and their
+husband's a burden to them. Without having time given them to mature
+their ideas, these latter are hurried into matrimony while still
+children, without having formed a conception of the terrible
+responsibility that attaches itself to every human soul who agrees to
+join itself to another.
+
+These latter do not make good matches in any one sense of the word. The
+struggling barrister, the clerk, the curate, the brainless masher--such
+are their prey; and if they make richer prizes than these, still the
+match cannot be called _good;_ presently there is dis-union as the
+clever husband finds the pretty but nonsensical wife utterly unable to
+follow him through the paths of life that Fate has opened out to him.
+
+It is a common idea that men care only for beauty, and are to be
+attracted by no lesser virtue--if virtue it may be called. This is a
+most gross error that even the earliest of our thinkers has laid bare.
+What says Thomas Carew:
+
+  "But a smooth and steadfast mind,
+  Gentle thoughts and calm desires,
+  Hearts with equal love combined,
+  Kindle never-dying fires:--
+  Where these are not, I despise
+  Lovely cheeks or lips or eyes."
+
+
+We see, then, that there are things more desirable to the masculine
+mind than the mere charms of the flesh. To be beautiful is a good
+thing, for which we should thank Nature--to be attractive, morally,
+rather than physically, is, however, a thing for which we should thank
+Nature even more, if she be good enough to have endowed us with that
+lasting quality. Let a girl learn once for all that her little
+schoolgirl airs and graces can please only the unintellectual of her
+set, that to make a good match, in the most noble sense of the word, is
+to form herself to be the equal of the man she marries, and all will be
+right. I speak advisedly, because a girl who has the courage to so plan
+out her future is very unlikely to wed with any save the most desirable
+of the other sex.
+
+But what _is_ a good match? Does it mean a man with money only, or
+position only, or intellect only, or only a capacity for being good
+humored under each and every circumstance? The common acceptation of
+the term means a man in such a moneyed position that he can place his
+wife considerably above that of her friends, so far as money goes. And
+that is a very good thing too, so far as it goes. But to be rich is not
+everything! The merely sordid, the entirely uneducated can rise to this
+height, but surely to make a _good_ match one's husband should be the
+possessor of something more than money. He should be cultured, refined,
+intelligent, and therefore the girl who wishes to mate with him, should
+take care to be cultured and refined herself. Half the bad matches in
+the world are caused either by the educated women marrying the man
+thoroughly beneath her in all moral qualities, or the man who has spent
+his life cultivating his mind, falling a slave to the petty fascination
+of a pretty woman who has only beauty to give him--nothing more!
+
+What girls should never forget is to be _neat!_ Not primly so, but
+daintily so. The girl well got up, with irreproachable gloves, and
+shoes that fit, though her gown be only cotton, yet if it be well
+turned out, may compete with the richest, while the slovenly dresser,
+who scorns or forgets to give attention to details, is passed over by
+the discontented eye, though her gown may be a masterpiece of Worth.
+
+A girl should learn to put her gown on properly. No creature living
+takes more heed of externals than your orthodox man. He may not know
+the price, color, or material of your clothes, but he will know to a
+nicety whether you are well or badly gowned.
+
+One special point I would impress upon the girl who desires, (as all
+girls do) to range themselves well, to make a good marriage--is to be
+_gentle_. The craze for vivacity, for the free and easy style that
+border so closely on the manners of the _demi monde_ that distinguished
+the society of ten years ago has providentially died a natural death.
+Now-a-days, men are sensible enough to look for _comfort_ in their
+married lives. And surely the knowledge that one's future wife has a
+heart as tender as it is sympathetic should, and does, go far to
+arrange a man's decision of who shall be the partner of his daily life.
+
+I was much struck by a little incident that occurred last year, and
+helped to prove the truth of this argument. I, amongst others,
+belonging to a large party who were waiting at a railway station for
+the train that was to carry us down to a garden party at one of the
+many lovely places on the Thames, saw an old man, a decrepit creature,
+bowed and palsied, making his way to where the third-class compartment
+would be. His arms were full of bundles of various sizes. Coming near a
+truck, the old man, who was half blind, marched against the edge of it,
+and all his little bundles fell helplessly to the ground. Most of the
+young people belonging to our party broke into an irresistible laugh.
+They were not so much to be blamed. Youth _will_ see amusement in even
+trifles, but there was one amongst us who did not laugh. The old man's
+chagrin seemed to touch _her_. She went quickly forward, and as he
+groped nervously for his parcels she lifted them one by one, and laid
+them in his arms. She was not a strictly pretty girl, but there was
+dignity and sweetness both in her face and in her action. I noticed
+that a young man, one of our party, watched her intently. He was rich,
+titled, one of _the_ matches of the London season. Supreme admiration
+showed itself in his face. He demanded an introduction. I gave it. In
+six months they were man and wife. _She_ made a good match, and so did
+he, in every sense of the word.
+
+There is one last remark, however, and a vital one, that I must make.
+No match, however distinguished either by money or position, can be
+called a _good_ one unless "love," who "is a great Master," be the very
+core of it.
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