Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1871-04-26
Marriage, Home, Children.

! 'N'' ~ 'VuuucIi III Nohlug nih ldfcNcll OF
the Californians, gave them lecture on
Home and its kindred joys,--wherein some
excellent truths were brightly said
Twenty-seven years ago Yankee girl and
| resolved to make home. have heard it
said that in all such agreements the lady takes
the initiative-not verbally, but in some gen.
tie revelation palpablc TO lovers. My wife
aud myself have often disputed that point
She says the assertion is groundless and mali.
cious. And | think she is right. made
the advance, and was considerably frihten.
ed but she helped me bravey through it.
The family rises in dignity and purify as
marriage is held sacred. | think that If we
could compile chapter on the honor in which
men treat their wives, we should have a most
curious history In ancient Babylon all the
women were every year put up at auction.
The handsome ones went of at high prices,
and the money that was realized was offered
for doweries upon the ugly ones. Ifa man
got beauty he paid for her if he got an
ugly woman he got cash. They eDdeavored
to set loyelncss without money against home
liness with it. In Greece the bride went by
night in chariot to the house of her intend.
ed In another ancient country the women
had a fashion of kicking and biting those who
endeavored to take them away; although |
am inclined to think these kicks and bites did
not amount to much. In Dahomey the king
owns all women, and takes as his proportion
three thousand. Once year he parcels out
all the rest Of the women in his empire to his
subjects, just as he peases, without consult
ing their wishes There are still lower depths |
than this In some tribes the man feTs the
woman senseless to the ground aud bears her
away. Where man has sunk thus low we
may well class them below the ourang-outang.
Even these homes are better than no homes. |
They are better than a wholly unregulated /,
intermingling. Yet none of these is like to
that home which Is product of Christian .
civilization in which woman is honored in .
the sharing of the purest and noblest rite, the
rite of marriage, based upon mutual affection,
the ceremony Of wedock being the vow Of
fidelity and love. Marriage began in Eden,
and it should be kept up. In the Roman en-
pire there were stringent laws against bache.
lors. In Greece women took switches and .
beat the old baches in order to whip a matri- /
monial spirit into them
A complete idea Of home can never be re. /.
allied without children They are part of
ourselves. We break out with children lust
as rockets that shoot up break out into stars.
Man is stick and paper filled with ntre and
charcoal and sulphur, but he does not break
out with stars Of himself Parental instinct
is the great foundation Of the family tie. In
the lower order Of animals this does not exist.
The tadpole never knows his father or moth
er. These dear little pollywogs grow up
without care Of father or mother. The honey |
bee has good mathematical skill and a knowl. |
edge Of practical botany, but it manifests no
parental affection, for how could she care for
them all | find it hard work to care for
half dozen. With many of the animals and |
insects, parental instinct ceases with simple |
of themselves See how in the |
torrid zone birds build their nests, away out
On the end of limb, SO that the monkeys
'annot seize their young. The monkey has
o take back seat, and looks at the nest and
yrits his teeth and winks, but he dassent--he
iassent try it, The humming-bird builds its
iest OF non-conducting materials, so that the
thunderstorm cannot spoil its eggs 1t knew
.he mysteries of thunder long before Benjamin
Franklin brought down q spark from thun-
ier-cloud. | appeal to every father here
How did you feel when your first child was
'orn felt that the house could not hold
ne. 1t was not big enough to breathe in.
said must get out of this" Fortunately
lived by the sea--a respectable sized object
o look upon If | had lived on the inland |
hink | should have exploded.
Solon said that every newly married couple
' =, Iu,"I' 81 '"a, 'neir breath should