Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-05-27
Royal Marriages.

There has lately been such jingle of
bells in St Petersburg and London that we
have heard them quite across the sea.
The queens son has married the daughter
of the Russian emperor. We are glad of
it. 1t is always well to have people mar
~ who are on the same level. The fa-
nous af1iancing, in New York, of coach
man with the daughter of Il millionaire
who employed him, did not turn out well.
1t was bad for her, but worse for the
coachman. Eagle and OK are both well
in their places, but let them not marry.
| The OK would be dizzy in the eyrie, and
! the eagle i'll ut home in the barn-yard.
When the children of two royal homes are
united there ought to be no begrudging of
powder for the cannOnadin@, or of candles
for the illumination. All Joy to the duke
of Edinburgh and his fortunate duchess !!
But let not our friends across the sea
imagine that we have no royal marriages
here in this western wilderness. When
ever two hearts come together pledged to
make each other happy. binding all their
hopes and fears and anticipations in one
sheaf calling on God to bless and angels
to witness, though no organ may sound
the wedding-march, and no bells may
chime, and no dean of Westminster tray
.
emony-that is a rOyal naarridge.
| When two young people start out on
! life together with nothing but determin-
alton to succeed. avoiding the invasion of
each others idiOSvncracieS not carving
the candle near the gunpowder, sympathet-
ic with each others employment, willing
! to live on small means till they get large
/ facilities, paving as they 90, taking life
| here as a discipline, with four eyes watch
| inc its perils. and with four hands fighting
its battles,-whatever others may say or
do,-that is Il royal marriage! 1t is SO set
down in the heavenly archives, and the
Orange-blossOms shall Wither on neither
side of the grave.
! We deplore the fact that because of the
fearful extravaganza of modern society
many of our best people conclude that they
cannot possibly afford 10 marry.
We are getting Il fearful crop of bache-
Iors They swarm around us. They 90
through life lop-sided. Half dressed, they
sit round cold mornings, all a-shiver, sew
inc on buttons, and darning socks, and
then 90 down to long boarding house Ia
bic which is bounded on the north and
south and east and west by the Great Sa-
hara Desert. We do not pity them at all.
Nav all their buttons be off tomorrow
morning. Why do they not set up plain
home of their own and come into the ark
two and two.
The supporting of a wife is looked upon
as a great horror Why. dear friends, with
right and healthy notions of time and
eternity, it is very easy to support a wife,
if she be of the kind worth supporting.
If she be educated into false notions of re-
finement and have young ladies insti-
tutes " piled ON her head till she be imbe-
cie, YOU will never be able to support her.
Everything depends on whether you take
for a wife woman OF Il doll-baby Om
opinion is that three fourths Of the success
fll men of the day owe much of theiI
prosperity to the wife's help. The loac
of life is so heavy it takes team of two
to draw it. The ship not only wants {
captain. bat first mate. Society today
transatlantic and cis-atlantic, very mucl
needs more royal marriages.-Christjn
ut Work.