Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-01-17

it is appalling it is enough to turn al
true men anchorites, and all true women
nuns. Girls educated according t.
modern ideas have little or no conception
of the true duties of life. From then
earliest years they are taught that q
graceful carriage, a fashionable exterior
smattering of the languages, a few
frivolous accomplishments, dancing and
amateur devotion to a musical instru-
ment, are all that Is to be desired. Man
d.. asks this much; man courts this much
he weighs the palmer abilities and
capabilities of life against them, and
finds them wanting. He asks a snowy
exterior, and-he gets it Late hours,
gaiety, excitement, admiration, fashion
and flowers, hounces and furbelows are
not the things to impress a girl with the
reality and earneStness of life-with the
fact that she has higher and nobler
duties to perform, and that one day in
the great Hereafter she will be known
by her work, and judged according to
/ her deeds. She marries, however. since
/ that seems to be the object Of woman 5
( whole existence, and when the romance
Of the honeymoon dwindles down into
the common, unadorned realities Of life.
she grows restiYe and pines for the ad-
miTatiOn she once commanded, and be-
cause she has not been reared tc view
marriage and virtue and honor as all
women should view them, she resorts to
mendacious, contemplate influences to
win and wear that which she once
carelessly cast away Men are aware Of
this-there polygamic taste approves.
so long as the darkness and sin crouch
not at their own hearth-stones. They
mislead and beguile, betray and desert
every day; the most courtly exterior
hides sometimes the worst heart-the
oily tongue oftenest denotes the william
But Whosoeycr brings sorrow to another,
must one day shelter sorrow under his
own roof he who sows must reap; he
who misleads the "heart treasures Of
his neighbor must expect to find dross
in his own gold.
The theory that pure, perfect platonic
affection can exist between married peo
pie with those outside Of marriage-or
rice rersa-is false aud pernicious.
Marital rotations allow, not yirtuOusly
any such inffiDgements God has given
Us human passions-aud He has also
given Us power to control them, but if
Eye-with the sweetness of Eden about
her,-lacked moral power to resist
temptation, how can il be expected that
those can resist it who live in an age
when the curse Of her sin is fostered
and nurtured until it rules the world?
It Is bad enough when a woman with
her soft voice and blessed eyes, with her
grace and her beauty 'bcguiles the atfec-
tons Of man, but how much worse is it
for a man, who knows the error of his
way and still that way Pursues to tangle,
in the willy meshes Of his evil nature.
the hearts Of those never awakened to
loves allurements before to electrifv
into hfe the passions latent in the
natures Of the young and fair about him
and yet, there are some married men,
who positively make a profession of it
But in doing so they forget
Where tie contract exist, it involves obllgs-
ra b7ih husband and wi re In IN equal relation.
He endorses ia asserting his own liberty
4 knot, which, uulo3ssd, leaves another as
fIee."
4 man can give his hOnor-his name,
his house, his home to but Oue--that
one. his rife; and to all others-wbat
can he offer? He says; sentiment
platonic afection-frieudship which
rendered in plain Saxon means disgrace
.dishouor-despair The sentiment
the platonic affection the friendship of
married man ought to be Stunned as one
would shun a Cobra ds Cayeii0, all
honest mems doors should be shut
against him-as one would shut out a
leper, all voices should cry in accord
@unclean-uncleau.
But ah should the passion be real
and tender should the man or woman
be unhappily mated should they be
miserable in the sancity Of their own
home2 should their congenialities be
discovered too late In such 4 case, to
all who love purely and truly there IS
but one alternative to part--and part
foreyer-to meet again when both have
trod-"the altar stairs that lead through
darkness up to'God.
So long as married firtS convey their
influences into the quiet Of happy homes;
so long as platonic affections are advo-
Gated so long as Paris and Paris models
are accepted as the criterions to which
America and American people must
aspire, just 50 long will the world
be n Sedan apple, and just so
long will Art and Science and
Literature progress and Civilization
grow retrograde, for Civilization devoid
of religion is worse than the dark
horrors of the middle ages, and their can
be no religion without Purity.
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