| Marry in your own position in life. If there is any difference in
social position, it is better that the husband should be the superior. A woman does not
like to look down upon her husband, and to be obliged to do so is a poor guarantee for
their happiness. |
| It is best to marry persons of your own faith and religious
convictions, unless one is willing to adopt those of the other. Difference of faith is apt
to divide families, and to produce great troubles in after life. A pious woman should
beware of marrying an irreligious man. |
| Don't be afraid of marrying a poor man or woman. Good health,
cheerful disposition, stout hearts, and industrious hands will bring happiness and
comfort. |
| Bright red hair should marry jet black, and jet black auburn or
bright red, etc. And the more red-faced and bearded or impulsive a man, the more dark,
calm, cool, and quiet should his wife be; and vice versa. The florid should not
marry the florid, but those who are dark, in proportion as they themselves are light. |
| Red-whiskered men should marry brunettes, but no blondes; the
color of the whiskers being more determinate of the temperament than that of the hair. |
| The color of the eyes is still more important. Gray eyes must
marry some other color, almost any other except gray; and so of blue, dark, hazel, etc. |
| Those very fleshy should not marry those equally so, but those
too spare and slim; this is doubly true of females. A spare man is much better adapted to
a fleshy woman than a round-favored man. Two who are short, thick-set, and stocky should
not unite in marriage, but should choose those differently constituted; but on no account
one of their own make. And, in general, those pre-disposed to corpulence are therefore
less inclined to marriage. |
| Those with little hair or beard should marry those whose hair is
naturally abundant; still those who once had plenty, but who have lost it, may marry those
who are either bald or have but little; for in this, as in all other cases, all depends on
what one is by nature, little on present states. |
| Those whose motive-temperament decidedly predominates, who are
bony, only moderately fleshy, quite prominent featured, Roman-nosed and muscular, should
not marry those who are similarly formed. |
| Small, nervous men must not marry little nervous or sanguine
women, lest both they and their children have quite too much of the hot-headed and
impulsive, and die suddenly. |
| Two very beautiful persons rarely do or should marry; nor two
extra homely. The fact is a little singular that very handsome women, who of course can
have their pick, rarely marry good-looking men, but generally give preference to those who
are homely; because that exquisiteness in which beauty originates naturally blends with
that power which accompanies huge noses and disproportionate features. |
| A sensible woman should not marry an obstinate but injudicious,
unintelligent man; because she cannot long endure to see and help him blindly follow his
poor, but spurn her good, plans. |
| The reserved or secretive should marry the frank. A cunning man
cannot endure the least artifice in a wife. Those who are non-committal must marry those
who are demonstrative; else, however much they may love, neither will feel sure as to the
other's affections, and each will distrust the other, while their children will be
deceitful. |
| A timid woman should never marry a hesitating man, lest, like
frightened children, each keeps perpetually re-alarming the other by imaginary fears. |
