The Daily clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1866-1888, 1867-01-11
WEDDING EDAK&.

ia revoltiong nature.
WEDDING EHAE&.
III habit of celebrating golden
sddings and silver weddings, or the
nth anniversary Of marriage, or fifth
frst, in a public and ostentatious
anner, has been carried to some very
aieul0us eXtremities. 70 mere ac-
lmntances, who have never known
I. and Mrs. Jones in any other rela-
on than as married folks giving oc-
siOnal and handsome entertainments,
h0 do not even know or care how
any children they may chance to
I've, or what are their names, who
row nothing whatever Of their fami-
life different from that of fifty other
miles of the same circle, it seems,
ld it is very ridiculous to be called
1on to take part in some celebration
81 anniversary of this sort. Where
mere business acquaintance exist
iib the husband, or calling acquaint-
ire with the wife, it is especially out
place to expect any peculiar sympa-
les, and therefore none should be
emanded.
But, on the other hand, those who
ave known either Of the parties be
re marriage and since, and in pro
Dfaion to their intimacy, in the more
city family circle, may be properly
athered round a couple on anniver-
ries OF the sort, and their sympathies
I'll be an increasing pleasure, and one
ot|withOut its utilities all round.
Ihere is much danger when persons
I've been married few years, and the
res of business and i'll health, and of
llNren, nave IuTrOWeu UnUII UuccKo
ldrObbed them of early sprightliness
id beauty, that their vivacity and
abit of commemorating joyful ami
ersaries with a becoming cheerful
ess will be lost Life may become so
pnOtOnOus to be much like death.
Let any man who has been married
Venty- years look back, and if he has
ltered on that tie with anything like
asOnable expectations and intentions
ld been met in the same spirit, be
i'll become concious that very far the
rgest share of his happiness has
1rung up from the marriage relation.
housands will feel that it has made
ew men of them, with brighter hopes
Rd better expectations and reliza-
ons than they could have believed
Dssible; and all will feel that it has
ven them the truest and most elevat-
and worthy objects for which to
We.
4 nlan sits down in his own easy arm
IAN, and finds around him large
DpsehOld to be kept up, half q dozen
llldren to be educated and provided
RI many cares he had never dream
0f, but also circle Of choice friends
hon he has learned through his
PIE, properly to appreciate, of depend
IS whose wants it his happiness to
lpply, and a sense of faith in Provi-
snce for Il thousand more necessary
lngs that are the sources of his real
ppiness and hope. Both the cares
sd the pleasures all tend to make
m more powerful, influential, sue
stu, and, on the whole, happy man
81 could have become with out lust
NJ very discipline. Marriage is a
Vine institution, so adapted to all
~ make human life civilized, social
% happy, that none but He who
eated us could have devised this tie.
very possible deviation from its full
ld true nature and spirit occasions a
SO OF good to society, and produces
pstive evil to the world
Upon it depends all the training of
eyoung by the joint care of both
rents, and the proper provisions for
en- rs they start out in life. All the
ogress of society and all the success
every other tie depend chiefly upon
As, so that all States and nations
Fe been successful just in proportion
tor the life of both, one man has
~ and lovingly lived with the wife
us choice, each striving to make the
her happy. That love which began
lpst freely in mutual choice has now
ONE the chief and most important
aa religious of duties. and the day of
arlage, the union of those two, be-
Ines far more important in the feel
OF more than their own birthday.
Il the birth of so many new hopes,
III feelings and of new life, so gen
ly' and one of ones own manly
Rce, that it becomes increasingly
and should be so remembered as
ive new elasticity and spring to
rled life.-Philadelphia Ledger.