Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1857-10-14
MARRIED AND SINGLE.

"Our story will not have been in vain,
if it has done anything towards raising
the single women Of our country to the
comparatively honorable level they &C.
cupy in Englsud-anyihing to drive
away the smile already fading from the
lips Of all but the vulgar at the name oI
"old made. ."-Exiract from tie preface
Of Hrs. Selg'yick's new book.
We blame no woman for making tie
best of her condition. in i quiet ant un-
observed way, but when we find celiba-
cy defended as an institution. the wrath
of married man and The son Of a mar.
ried man who had a long line of married
ancestors, as he firmly believes, run
ming back in an unbroken line to the pri-
NAL pair, rises within US. We believe
that men and women were made to mar.
ry-that true human developement and
true happiness cannot be in any measure
or in their possible measure, achieved in
this world outside of the married com
panionship Of the sexes and the rearing
Of family of children. We regard it
as q serious misfortune to lead necessar-
ily single life; to lead such life from
choice, based ostensibly upon a candid
view of the two positions. argues, with Us
an unhealthy organization. or a judgment
sadly warped from a healthy bias.
To decide against marriage is first to
trample upon nature and philosophy
Natural affinilies and sympathies must
be ignored. Mrs. Sedgwick's experience
with girls must have taught her that a
hat band is charged with heart quicken
ing suggestions, that bass voice is
wonderful music, and that the vision of
q pair of spurs is more charmig than all
the landscapes in Lenox, to a company
of misses anywhere from thirteen TO
eighteen years old. As for boys, we
know all about them. We recognized
unaccountable charm in a Waste at the
premature age of eight, the waist be-
ing FIVE years cid, cor thereabouts,"
and was killed at thirty PAGES By the
graceful swing of skirt just as we step
ped into the golden septenniad Of the
teens. Our youngest, a daughter, who
in said to resemble-well, no matter
already talking about hus.
band, and she has not seen her fifth
winter. Where she go. the idea is more
than We can tell, but her doll is a boy,
Gas true as you live" Fallstaff was a
coward upon instinct perhaps..children
are matrimonial in the same way. What
We mean TO say is this: that boys and
girls recognize, among the earliest facts,
hat their natural destiny is with one an
other; the brightest dreams of youth
he ambitions, the struggles. the rewards
% which youth looks forward are all
associated with love and loves posses
iions.
We have said, too. that to decide
against marriage is to tramPle upon phi !
osophy. Man and womsn are the true
init. The half-pair-ofshears theory is
Strength and gen!leness, rug !
red forms aad graceful, angularity and |
positiveness and Persuasion-in |
'ther words. manhood and womanhood I
are compliments of each other. They |
re kind OF positive and negative cleo
ricity which can never be easy until re.
o!ved by kiss of the heavenly fire.
Married life has its trials and its sor
ows. Tempers may prove incompati-
lie, and call for forbearance. Fortune
nay be chary of its favors. and enforce
reat self denial. Children may be un
and sting the poor heart
hat has pillowed them. Sickness may
ONE. and haunt household for years.
'ut ask the poor man, struggling along
Eth his debts, and the weary woman
oiling early and late, accomplishing the
uin of her beauty and her buoy if
hey would be placed apart could COM
etence be given them, and all their tri-
Is be brought to an end. The answer
Tould be: "ihere is something sweeter