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The Daily Dispatch: August 14, 1861., [Electronic resource], Courtship and marriage (search)
Courtship and marriage
--The famous Dr. Miller, in a lecture on the above interesting subjects, recently delivered in Birmingham England, defines falling in love into two methods, which he calls proper and improper.
Falling into love proper was falling into love when one could not help it; in other words, love at first sight.
Love improper was defined as the case of a man who looked about for a wife because he wanted one; and the lecturer pointed out the distinction between the man who wants to marry because he has fallen in love, and another who falls in love because he wants to marry.
From whatever motive marriage was contracted, it was a most serious step.
There was an old saying, and a true one, withal, that no man was thoroughly ruined unless he were badly married.
As regards finesse for the marriage relation, the lecturer believed that a woman who was wise enough to understand.
"Butler's Analogy," and housewife enough to cook an apple dumping was fit to become a w