[ {"chunk": 63, "story": 8, "summary": "A florist's bill for fifty-two dollars of roses sent to a speculator's showy daughter reaches the father, who judges her heart beats only for money.", "predicament": "Someone on small pay is spending far beyond it courting a person who cares mainly about money.", "advice": [ {"move": "tell a money-minded suitor exactly what you earn", "outcome": "they lose interest in you", "quote": "tell her you're making twelve a week and ain't going to get any more till you earn it, you'll find that you can't push within a mile of her", "stance": "do"}]}, {"chunk": 64, "story": 8, "summary": "A twelve-dollar clerk owing for roses needs a keeper more than a wife; young men pick wives in dim parlours without looking at the family, and a speculating father-in-law will borrow.", "predicament": "Someone barely earning is drifting toward marriage without a clear look at who, and whose family, they are taking on.", "advice": [ {"move": "spend a large sum at once on courtship gifts", "outcome": "you come to regret the necessities it could have bought", "quote": "there always comes a time to the fellow who blows fifty-two dollars at a lick on roses when he thinks how many staple groceries he could have bought", "stance": "avoid"}, {"move": "marry into a family with a spendthrift or speculating head", "outcome": "they borrow money from you", "quote": "while he doesn't marry his wife's father, there's nothing in the marriage vow to prevent the old man from borrowing money of him", "stance": "avoid"}]}, {"chunk": 65, "story": 8, "summary": "Never marry a poor girl raised like a rich one, nor marry for money or without it; the girl who marries the son for his father's money will be cheated.", "predicament": "Someone of modest pay is choosing whom to marry, and money on either side threatens to spoil the match.", "advice": [ {"move": "marry someone raised above the means they will actually have", "outcome": "you get the vices of the rich without their advantages", "quote": "Never marry a poor girl who's been raised like a rich one. She's simply traded the virtues of the poor for the vices of the rich", "stance": "avoid"}]}, {"chunk": 66, "story": 8, "summary": "In the father's home town the owner's pampered little son thought himself a fine fellow.", "predicament": "A pampered heir who thinks well of themselves is much admired by the young people of a small place.", "advice": []}, {"chunk": 67, "story": 8, "summary": "The pampered son is a smooth, easy charmer the other boys hate and the girls like, and he confides his heart's secrets to every girl in town.", "predicament": "A smooth talker wins favour everywhere by telling each listener the same confidences as if meant for them alone.", "advice": []}, {"chunk": 68, "story": 8, "summary": "He wins sympathy by hinting at a tragic past until, at twenty-four, he courts a shrewd widow of forty and wakes up stepfather to her four children, kept firmly in hand and taken for her son.", "predicament": "Someone who has trifled with everyone's affections is finally caught by a person far shrewder than they are.", "advice": []}, {"chunk": 69, "story": 8, "summary": "Widowed at over fifty, he marries a girl of eighteen, and on the honeymoon train travellers mock him by treating her as his daughter.", "predicament": "An ageing person marries someone decades younger and finds everyone around them treating the match as a joke.", "advice": []}, {"chunk": 70, "story": 8, "summary": "The hotel clerk joins the joke; the moral is that you cannot trifle with a woman set on marrying, nor average out one marital mistake with another, and marrying the wrong one is for life.", "predicament": "Someone who made one bad match tries to balance it with the opposite mistake, and is mocked for both.", "advice": [ {"move": "trifle with someone who has made up their mind to marry", "outcome": "you end up married to them", "quote": "the foolishness of thinking you can take any chances with a woman who has really decided that she wants to marry", "stance": "avoid"}, {"move": "marry the wrong person", "outcome": "you live with the mistake all your life", "quote": "marrying the wrong girl is the one mistake that you've got to live with all your life", "stance": "avoid"}]} ]