Disserations by Mr. Dooley (1906) - Almanac of Theodore Roosevelt

SHORT MARRIAGE
CONTRACTS
"T IT 7 HO is George Meredith?" asked Mr.
\/\/ Hennessy.
ley.
?T "Ye can search me," said Mr. Doo-
" What is th' charge again' him ?"
" Nawthin'," said Mr. Hennessy ;
" but I see he's
in favor iv short-term marredges."
"What d'ye mean?" asked Mr Dooley.
"
Reducin'
th' terms f'r good behavyor?"
"
No," said Mr.
"
Hennessy. He says people
ought to get marrid f'r three or four years at a time.
Thin, if they don't like each other, or if wan gets
tired, they break up housekeepin'."
" Well," said Mr. Dooley, " it mightn't be a bad
thing. Th' throuble about mathrimony, as I have
obsarved it fr'm me seat in th' gran' stand, is that
afther fifteen or twinty years it settles down to an
endurance thrile.
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*
Women,* as Hogan says, are
creatures iv such beaucheous mien that to be loved
they have but to be seen ; but,' he says, * wanst they're
seen an' made secure,' he says, '
we first embrace, thin
pity, thin endure,' he says. Most iv th' ol' marrid
men I know threat their wives like a rockin'-chair, a
great comfort whin they're tired, but apt to be in
th' way at other times.
" Now, it might be diff'rent if th' ladies, instead
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