Wyoming democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Wyoming Co., Pa.) 1867-1940, 1868-12-23
MATTERS IN WHICH THE LADIES
TAKE NO INTEREST,"

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man heart, is the one most lightly regard
ed and most stoutly denied How many
| thousands Of beings are victims of the pow
er of love ! The current Of how many lives
have been changed for better or for worse
by that subtle power, which the whole
| world pretends to scoff at, to deny, and to
ridicule The shallowness, supericiaity,
and hypocrisy of the age cannot be better
illusted, than by its claim to a sort of stoi-
cal Indifference Oh the subject OF love.
Speak OF young gentleman as being prob
ably III love with certain lady, and he re-
plies with some coarse, unfeeling remark,
the effect Of which is to impress his hearer
with the idea of his contempt for senti-
ment which may even then be shaping the
course of his future life. He Is ashamed
indeed. Of being even suppected OF enjoy
ing that dearest feeling of the human heart
As soon would he be charged with the com
mission OF crime, as to be even suspected
of loving This he learns from earliest
youth to regard as weakness, to make
light Of it, and to study to be q ssoic. Why
al this duplicity? Why deny the laws of
nature, and mock the purest and holiest
sentiment which God gave to mankind
Why lower the estimate Of that Heaven,
from the bEsse8 and joys escaped from
whose pearly gates, mankind gets its first
realization il loving and being loved =
Why should pure woman blush for tho
loving Of worthy and true nan ? Why
speak lightly and friyolusly to her compan-
ions OF the love or loving Of others In
other words, why be ashamed to be a nat
ur2l woman or natural man
HoME, SWEET HOME. few Of those
blest with good and happy homes are COM
retent to appreciate the trials and suffer
inrs of the homeless wanderer on earth's
barren and cheerless highway! He who
has no home. who enjoys not the fragrance
Of the heart summer flowers OF the hearth
who is alone without wife, or child or
is indeed q stranger in a strange land and
yet how many such wanderers roam about
over the earth, seeking, but never finding,
thai rest and sweet peace for which the
soul cries aloud in its sadness Paine, the
author Of that beautiful song, Home,
Sweet Home" was one such. No homes
happy door opened its welcome invitation
to receive the sad spirit which pined for its
rest, and its loving. and its cares. He was
a homeless wanderer in the world, and
died ultimately in a strange land, unknown
and uncared for bat his soul cries aloud
for ''home, sweet home, and thousands
of hearts feel the yearning and answer his
sad spirit, by intuitive responses, where
ever his sweet song is sung.
YOUTHFUL MARRIAGE. There is 4 great
diversity OF opinion on the subject of
youthful or early marriages but we think
this difference is attributable to a want of
knowledge of philosophy, the
character Of the races, climatic influence,
and other matters upon which the-ubiect
ted States early marriages are best, partic-
ularly in the Northern, Eastern, or West
ern States ; while in tropical countries,
there can be no surer moral code invoked
than that of youthful or early marriages.
In all cold climates, it is well known that
develop less rapidly but enjoy
greater longevity than in tropical climates,
where all nature is luxuriant, OF rapid de-
VII =.
to a brieter period than elsewhere. A girl
Of sixteen, fifteen, fourteen, thirteen, or
even twelve wears of age, is ripe woman
i'll the tropics. In the States, at sixteen
young ladies are only contemplating mar
riage while at twelve, they are but chill
dren il the tropics they are mothers with
one or more children. In the States, the
woman of thirty is il the prime OF life in
the tropics she is past middle age, or re-
garded as well advancing. Yet the climate
rule is not absolute for there are, no
doubt, hundreds of girls fully developed in
our land, competent to make good mothers
at fifteen, but they are rare cases compared
with poplation, and may oftenest be found
in the Southern portion Of the Union. But
the question of early marriage is not con-
fined to this country but has elected COM
ment and critical examination in England
and elsewhere. In Scotland marriages of
this kind are unusually rare, although in
that happy kingdom minors are not re-
quired TO obtain the consent of their guar
dians before slipping on the matrimonial
moose. The census returns of 1861 show
that in Boston IS husbands and 175 wives
were married at the age of Is and under
Bromley 5l husbands and 147 wives of the
same precocious age. Stockport, as local
journal wrote, asserted its proud pre-emi-
nence" by contributing to the census re-
turns 50 husbands and 179 wives who were
united before their fifteenth birthday had
passed. We believe, however, that it is
best for women not to take the responsible
lty OF becoming mothers until eighteen and
past, and experience proves that the heal
thiest and happiest mothers and grand
mothers are those who, as a general thing,