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REALMOf Pi WOB.
TheDifficulty of Knowing a^Before You Are Married^to Him.
Man
Woman Takes a Husband on^Credit, and Then Guards Him^from Bachelor Friends
Pointsof I)rr^s During the Lenten Sea^^son Which All Women Observe^^Fllrtlus With I'rlucesaet.
Yonmay talk nbont the difficulties that^lie in the way of a man's knowing n pirl be^^fore Up ninrries her,^ said a young matron^of the fashionable set a day or two ago to a^representative of the Washington H;ar,^^but pray consider the other Hide of the^question, which seems to nie to be much^more striking. How much does a girl^know^indeed, how much can she know-^about the man she marries ut.til after the^wedding^ Why, nothing at all. or almost^nothing. Al.d it is to that very fact that I^attribute the failure of most unsuccessful^marriages. The young woman aimply^doesn't become acquainted with her hus^^band until after the knot has been t I'd. Is^it astonishing, nnder such circumstances,^that she should frequently be disappointed^in him afterward^
Iwill venture to say,''she continued,^^that in a majority of instances the young^wifs is considerably disappointed after^marriage in the man she has chosen. How^can it be otherwise. Often the idol must^be altogether shalteied; but if this is not^the case, happily, the idea aha haa formed^of him usually has to be reconstructed^more or lew*. Perhaps he may be satisfac^^tory in his new aspect and |^erhaps not. At^all events he ia not at all likely to appear^the same man he did while she was engaged^bo him. During that period he was on his^very best behavior, nnd you know what that^signifies with a vouug bachelor. I have^learned a good deal about such things from^what my own husband haa told me^it ia^astonishing how precious green 1 used to^he. He ia perfect, of courae. but tl.eu I^believe kill 10 be altogether an exception.
