Advice on Marrying

ADVICE ON MARRYING. Never marry a poor girl who's been raised like a rich one. She's simply traded the virtues of the poor for the vices of the rich without going long on their good points. There's no real ob- jection to marrying a woman with a fortune, but there is to marry- ing a fortune with a woman. Money makes the mare go, and it makes her cut up, too, unless she's used to it and you drive her with a snaffle-bit. While you are at it, there's nothing like picking out a good- looking wife, because even the handsomest woman looks homely sometimes, and so you get a little variety; but a homely one can (mly look worse than usual. Beauty is only skin deep, but that's deep enough to satisfy any reasonable man. (I want to say right here, that to get any sense out of a proverb I usually find that I have to turn it wrong side out.) Then, too, if a fellow's bound to marry a fool, and a lot of men have to if they're going to hitch up into a well-matched team, there's nothing like picking a good look- ing one. — John Graham, the Packer, to his son Pierrepont.