Washington Telegraph

Early Marriages. The last number of Hunt's Merchants' Magazine gives a sketch of the career of Mr. John Grigg, an eminent bookseller of Philadelphia. The sketch concludes by giving some views and opinions of life and business and rules and conduct necessary to success in life. The following are his notions on marriage:
"Early marriage is a favorite theme of Mr. Grigg's advice to young men. All men, he would say, should be married as soon as possible after twenty-one or twenty-three years of age. A woman of mind will conform to the necessities of the day of small beginnings; and choosing a wife a man should look at: 1st, the heart; 2d, the mind; 3d, the person. A choice made thus soberly and discreetly can hardly be wrong. But alas! who will look for discretion in a man crazy with love? In that sad plight nobody is capable of judging anything right.
So strong, however, were Mr. Grigg's convictions on this point, despite the intrinsic difficulties of the case, that it became a bye-word among his clerks, that if any one wished a permanent place in his house, all he had to do was to get married! Several of his partners and successors in business were clerks whom he had befriended in their boyhood and their poverty. He made it a rule, in fact, to give preference as clerks to the sons of poor widows, whom he paid from the start, and promoted according to their capacity and proficiency."