Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1868-05-14


and it's four miles to the nearest grocery
But look some more"
II see house i'm town. It's furnished
gorgeous and regardless of expense. Th'
carpet is tapestry, the sofa cost not les
than 800, and there lisa Chickering Piano
Around it is a garden in which the Orange
tree and the-pine mingle their aromatic
boughs and the bulbul answers the night
ingale's song of love An antique foun
tain squirts cologne continually, diffusine
a delicious fragrance through the atmos
phere. It's gorgeous. see into the bay
window. Zobeide is sitting at the piano
shouting the Battle Cry of Freedom, ac
companying herself on the instrument, a
deformed dwarf of great price lowering
around her, tanning her with one hand
and turning over the leaves of the music
with the other, and il keeps him mighty
busy. Her husband enters, but Heavens
what changel He don't hold up his
head. Company enters-she smiles on
him. They depart-she frowns. They
interchange few unpleasant paragraphs
she flies at him-she seizes him by the
nape of the neck and the slack of the
breeches and pitches him down stairs.
Allah il Allah what muscular female J!
"Look again"
Il see a picture y man is endeavoring
TO fill barrel with teaspoon which a
woman is emptying with bucket. What
does it signify = aall 81
ITS an allegory, my son. Look again,
and sec the solution"
Il see and comprehend. The Store
keepers trade is light and his profits small ;
he is working hard in his store while 70
beide is leaving the house clad in purple
and fine linen. | see the point Of the alle-
CORY" rJI- H.il,
Look again -..-....
al see a cabin in the suburbs with a
slatternly woman banging her children
about like old boots. Outside, lying in
the sun, and overcome with the strong
waters of the Giaour, see a man, and"
Enough" said the good genius,
have shown YOU yard or two of futurity.
Wilt cast myself from the precipice for
Zobeide now :"
RESPECTED sirr' said Ali Hassan, "who-
ever yOu are, tell me, oh, tell me! is this
which have gazed on chapters in the BIZ
ography. of Zobcide:"
My son, it is. She whom you call
Zobeide has head on her shoulders and
a will of her own, and money. He who
can manage her can take city or rule an
empire. She was in earnest in her inten-
ton to marry you, because pardon me if
/ flatter YOU you are a fool. She knew
she would be able to boss you with less
wear and tear of temper than she could
man less fool. Following that strategy !;
determined, to use the words of another,
to fight it out on that line, she discarded
you, and took up with new storekeeper,
because she deemed him more fool than
you. / think she was mistaken, but let
that pass. We will not here argue that
point-either would have done She fur
nishes the capital and she will control it,
and whenever such a woman undertakes
to manage the money which she brings into
firm, she is, my son, very apt to go on
reducing il TO the very end of the chap
ter. This will happen with the store
keeper-had you married her, il would
have happened with you.
There must be, my son, in all matters
matrimonial, something like equality-if
there is any difference between the parties
ii should be in favor. of the male, for the
reason Of having the credit of being the
stronger vessel, il hurts his feelings more
to GO to the wall. Had you married this
high-tempered female, possessed of money,
the advantages would all have been hers.
She has intellect, which you have not
she has money, which you lack You both
have beauty, but that is only valuable in
female. The men run after a hand
some woman, but women despise pretty
man, because he is apt to be ms near
like themselves as it is possible for two
beings gotten up on different models to be:
and every well-regulated female desires an
opposite. | do not disapprove of your
marrying for nloney-the good of the tax
payers of your township demands it; but
see to it that she has no intellect, that in
that particular, at least, you may be on an
equality with her, and also To the end of
her not having force enough to make
ruction on account of her money. Such
marriages are proper. It's bad for the
next generation, but it is good for this, and
this is the generation for which we are
more Immediately concerned It's fair TO
presume that the next will take care of
itself without any of our interference
The young man who marries for money
must necessarily be an idiot or he could
make his pile easier-let the woman he
marries be likewise that too many families
may not be spoiled. She should be also
homely and old, as well as stupid, that
while she makes sacrifice in marrying
penniless man, the penniless man also
makes a sacrifice in marrying such bundle
of hideousness. Then you have hook
in the jaws of the leviathan. Ii she
throws her money in your face, you retort
with her appearance, and that evens il ur.
Therefore, my son go to her wedding
tomorrow. Hide your disappointment,
be the gayest of the gay and the liveliest
of the lively. Farewell. May the Allah
ofimbeciles protect you"
And envelOping himself in a mist he dis
appeared asquickly as he came.
Ali Hassan pondered. He changed his
mind. He neglected TO suicide. He went
home, he parted his hair behind, he brushed
his teeth and BACKED his boots, and, array
ing himself in his most stunning pair of
pants, his most gorgeousyest, and the most
crushing neck.ie, he went TO the wedding
and danced an Irish jig with the bride.
lie was so gay, so jolly, and wasn't so pale
and wan, that the bride nearly choked
with vexaticn. His manliness was re-
warded- Tat night he was introduced TO
a widow with no children, only fourteen
years his senior, who hadn't any will at
all, but whose husband had been kind
enough to accumulate pile of spelter be-
fore departing this life. Her he married,
and for many years lived in the full enjoy
ment OF everything he was capable of en-
joying.
THE END OF THE TALEl
f.4s- PRACTICAL OBSERVATIONS ~ q
/. He who marries in haste repents at
leisure; so sometimes docs he who ism:
in so much of hurry
2. There's as good fish in any river you
car mention as WAS eyer nnlied ont and