Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-02-18
RUNAWAY MATCHES Tho Cincin

RUNAWAY MATCHES Tho Cincin-
natl Enquirer makes tho following
sensible remarks on the subject Of run
away matches:
When lovers in the interior find the
course Of true love made rough by the
stony hearts of pareI is, they gather up
the contents Of a carr et-sack and quick
they fly to our city. At the corporate
limits Of our smoky metropolis they at
once meet with friends. The railroad
conductors give them, gratis, the best
directions. The hack driver warmly
aids the project. The hotel-keeper is
delighted, and hurries on the ceremony.
A magistrate close by completes the
process and local editor seizes upon
the item, and with ill-ccncealed gusto
spreads it before the public, adding
thereto gay and Aattering comments.
There arc those, however, who can
not see the amusement there is in all
this; who, on the contrary, are sadly
grievcd. We allude to the relatives Of
the unfortunate girl. We say un/ortu-
nate, for the best friends a girl has in
the world are her parents, and when
they object to any one as husband, we
may rest assured the obje:tion, in nine
cases out Of ten, is we'll taken. These
good people (while we laugh, are fill
ed, first, with painful anxiety and then
with positive anguish. The little girl
we have helped to what they believe her
ruin, was very near and dear-let any
one Of these aiders and abettors place
himself in the position of father, or of
brother, even, and then answer. The
dome et;o- drama would not orinn,
run through so entertainingly.
In nlnety-nlne cases out Of hun
dred, these ILL., advised love matches are
unfortunate. If we should follow Out
the history so gracefully commenced by
the local editor, we would be shocked
at its presentation Of neglect, misery
and crime. How many a sad and wo'
full record begins with the entertaining
item Of elopement, wherein the accom-
modating landlord, obliging clerk anc
gracious magistrate are duly compli
mented =?
1t may cause a smile-this solemn
protest on what so many consider ;
matter of amusement. We do not 81
consider it. The relation existing be-
tween parent and child is of too sacrec
a character for us to countenance it,
violation, AS good citizens, as mora
men, we should so regard it, and a
least cease to make parents anxiety
our amusement.
LITTLE GRAvEs.-Sacred places TO-
pure thoughts and holy meditation, ar
the little graves in the church yard
says writer. They are the deposito
ries of a n others sweetest joy-hal
unfolded buds Of innocence, humanit,
nipped by the first frost Of time, err
yet canker-worm Of corruption ha
nestled among its embryo petals. Cal
lous, indeed, must be the heart Of hin
who can stand by the side Of ittl
grave and not have the hottest emotion
of his soul awakened to the thoughts o
that purity and JOY which belongs alon
to God and Hcaven-for the NUT
preacher at his feet tells Of life begul
and ended without stain and surely i
this be vouchsafed to mortality, no,
much purer and holier must be the spir
it land, enlightened by the sun Of in
finite goodness, whence emanated tn
soul Of that brief sojourner among us
How swells the heart of the parent witt
mournful joy while standing by tn
earth bed of lost lutte ones ?-mourn
full, because a sweet treasure has beer
taken away-joyful, because that pre-
cious jewel glitters in the dladem o
the Redeemer.
81 NEVER DRINK ENOUGH TO HUE:
Me .''-You never do ?-then why tina
tinge to your check? Why that grow
ing recklessness in your character ?
Don't deceive yourself, dear friend
You are in danger; and it is kind
less to tell you SO. Thirty Thousand
persons die every year in our country
simply because they do not drinl
enough to hurt them. Half million
are daily pressing hard after, upon thu
crumbling verge Of drunkard's grave
Several millions more are bending theil
steps moro or less rapidly in the same
direction. You are one Of this group
You are candidate for pace among
the half million Of actual drunkards
Think you that any one Of the moder.
ate drinkers with whom you train, vii
admit that he drinks enough to hurt him!
And yet from all this class, do deatf
and the devil take their pick. They arc
after you! Depend upon it, they arc
after you. And you are welcoming
their insidious approach. Beware
young man, beware
A DEFENCE OF Our FIRST MOTHER.
There is matter for smile in the
following, which we give for the benefit
of our lady readers:
cit is true that Eve ruined US all
according to theology, without knowing
her letters. Still there is something to
be said in defence of that venerable an
cestress. The Veronese lady, Isotta
Nogarola, FIVE hundred and thirty-six