The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1873-08-08
For tho True Northerner.
Short Chapters on Matri-
mOny.
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The first institution that man received from
his Creator was that OF the Sabbath. The
second that or Marriage The first thought OF
man then should be OF heaven; the second OF
earth. Homage to the Creator before love
for the creature, a care Tor his soul, and then
for his heart.
Marriage is the rite, the ceremony; matri-
mony the condition Of welded life. The first
is the frame work OF the building the second
is the edifce itself. The ceremonies Of marri-
age differ IN different places, but the institu-
ton OF matrimony is the same every where and
usually accompanied by the same interests II
not by the same sanctions
Few topics have more enlisted the attention
OF writers and readers than that we have
chosen Tor little free discussion. Although
Cupid canot be said to be young he is not in
tho least the worse for wear his locks are still
golden" his cheeks glowing, and his eye radi-
ent as ever, while his yotares are moro numer-
GUS than in any previous age OF tho world.
Let me here premise that we do not purpose
INJECTING on our readers grave homiy on this
subject nothing can be moro foreign to our
present purpose. We leave the homiletical side
OF this subject to our religious teachers and
Divines. We only intend IN these chapters q
:" free and easy" gossipping talk, such as may
interest and benefit our youthful readers, and
serve as little spice to the always interesting
and readable pages OF the TRUE NoRTHERNER'
1t has been SAID that while Adam was created
2cattOm Paradise, Eve was created ,olthin the
sacred enclosure. and that consequently the
former always retains something Of the earthi-
pess OF his origin, while woman exhibits more
OF the refining process both as to her physical
and moral nature. As to the edrthiaeSs alluded
to, will only add. that in my judgment it has
not only been remarkably we'll preserved, but
that it is so fully manifested in our day, that
think mankind would not now be content TO
dwell again IN the Garden of Eden unless there
was market-house and grocery, an hotel, (con-
Quoted on the American PLAN and a rail road
hard by. running at least four express trains
daily with luxurious smoking cars attached to
each train.
Ewes being made after Adam, and out OF
portion OF his body, put an honor upon the
sex, as the glory OF the man. So then, if he is
the head, she is the crown-the crown Of her
husband, the crown Of the visible creation
The man was dust refined the woman was 6ust
double refined, -one remove farther from the
earth.
Woman was made out Of rib from the side
Of Adam. hence It has been most ungraciously
insinuated that, as she emenated from rib
and no one ever saw r,b perfectly straight, il
s absurd to expect TO find woman anything but
crooked herself, and that 1t is useless to at
tempt to make crooked things straight.
This base caumny upon the sex must have
originated IN the ossi6ed heart Of some old
woman-hater, as must also the following biting
lines, wiz
Adam lay sunk In slumber deep,
Lo woman from his side arose
Pity that his fret moments sleep
Should be the last of his repose.'
But enough OF this. Adam fell asleep bache-
Tor. and awoke married man.
Whocan guess how rapturous must have been
his emotions as he awoke and beheld the fair
and perfect Eve, for the first time, making the
coffee and frying the :" Ham and Eggs in the
back yard OF his country seat" lie appears
to have popped the question almost immedi-
ately after meeting Miss Eve, and she without
any shyness or Irritation whatever acceded at
once TO his proposal. (Sensible glrl.)
Now we like the notion Of getting married in
a garden; it is IN good taste. We like also
private wedding. Adams was private. No en-
vious jealous beau was there no croaking
old maid; no chatting aunts, or grumbhng
grandmo,hers. The birds of heaven were the
mmstrels. and the joyous sky flung its glad
light DER the scene. But tn ere is one thing
about the first marriage that brings queer things
to us, in spite of its scrptural aut hority. Adam
and his gal were rather young to be married,
some two or three days old according to the
sagest speculations Of Theologians-were babies
to be sure, larger. but no older They were
married without house without experience
without pot or kettle, orcoffee mll-notbing
but love and Eden.
One anonymous writer declares that Miss
Eve was just - sweet sixteen" when she was
awakened by the side Of ADAM and that the
wedding took place at sunris on the morning
OF her seventeenth birthday and that this
record was found written on he leaves Of the
lilies Of Paradise after Adam had changed his
residence. This is apochryphal to the last de-
gree, especially 80, in view Of the fact that the
age OF but one woman is mentioned at the time
OF her death. Therefore II is best not to be
too inquisitive about the age Of woman, partic-
ularly il she is likely to be left to waste her
sweetness on the desert air." and in view also
of another assertion. that after lady arrives
at the age Of eighteen she becomes no older
until she gets married!
1t is said that company Of young ladies
once waited upon maiden lady Of eighty-tive
years OF age and propounded the question: as
to the period OF life at which ladies ceased to
think Of the subject of matrlmony? She re-
Piled, =" Indeed my young friends you must ask
some one older than am" We read in the
Bible Of the marriage OF one lady who on her
wedding day was tioe hundred gears old Let
those who have long waited for the coming
man" be comforted, and keep an eye out for
the next chapter in the series. SIGMA.
SPECIAL.