New-York tribune., 1874-04-27
Circuit Court at lfawesvlle might have been
ut least little quicter.
MARRIED. PJRTNERSYTPs

One Oh the OIH UOiHlS III t1e tUli0g clse IL
that the wife of the prisoner appeared assert.
ing that her marriage was legal, but that, on
account of her being older than her husband.
she had been contented that he should live
apart from her (for consideration and even
to have him marry other women. Ia unamable
contradiction to this extraordinary complaisancc.
another case before Philadelphia court offered
itself on the same day, in which woman
sued her husband for maintenance for herself
and child, having been deserted by him shortly
after marriage. The defendant averred that
he had no objection 10 his wife, except that
hc had been deceived by her ~ 20 her age.
sbe stating herself to be- only nineteen when
she was twenty.four. Here were two men who
took mp their burdens; not many married
| people would care to vndicate their rights by
such wrctched folly and crime. But, after all.
how are these rights 10 be settled' When
two men go into partnership as brokers. sugar
| or pork dealers, every item of the mutual risk
! and deposits is clearly understood beforehand.
SO much capital, 50 much Influence. such and
such business capacities on either SIDE. II one
partner is ignorant of any Of the Deficiencies
of the other. it is his own fault, and contrary
to ordinary common sense and business usage
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most important and ndissoublc of all part
nershps, embracing the most enduring and
constant personal relations, their knowledge
Of the very habits and pecuiarities the every
day manner of which they are to be lifelong
witnesses and sharers, is, with few exccp-
tions, exceedingly slight. During cOurtship tho
lover finds his sweetheart, even IN her
most private moments, posed for his eyes.
She Is not to blame it is her love makes her
uncOnsciously an actress. She Is deilcately
pale how is he to know that three days Of
the week she is plunged in the depths OF sick
headache shawls, and emetics! Her violet
eyes look pleadingY into his through their
| long lashes can he foresee that they Will con-
tinue so to summer themselves in the face Of
every man she meets until she is gIay' On
the other hand, she is rigid church member
The theater is the vestibulc of hell 10 her.
and prima donna only painted abomina-
ton he rates music aud the drama among
the great purifying influences OF the world.
She is painfully neat his ragged house-coat
rceks of tobacco and his boots OF the stable.
She had loved him for his warm domestic
feeling; but did she know that she was to be
bcdeviled at every meal, not only by bis sainted
mother, but by the ghosts of all her pud
ding and pies and the hams she
cured7 Any cnamored John and Jenny who
may read this will cry out that these are but
na,,,, trihes mere straws to be swept away
-, tho creot en-. ..ont of love. On the contrary
they are the poisonous gnats which mr,.@~ i'ie
wretched on the fairest food or brightest
Summer day. Crime in each other usually
draws husband and wife closer to each other;
both courage and love bring them shoulder to
shoulder to meet the great chartered Judgmens
of God; it is these little gnawlng discrepan-
cies of character or opinion, these antipathies
of taste and habit that, like steadily driven
wedge, urge them day by day further apart.
When children are ready to be educated and
trained, these differences become more CALLING
| and insupportable; and worse in proper
ton as the parents are conscientious and
strive to rear their children in the nurture and
admonition of their own notion of duty.
What is to be done in thus diffcultyf There
is not household in the land where the ques-
ton is not of more interest and Importance
than the contraction of the currency In
France, where marriages are arranged 50 fire.
quently by third parties, and no previous
knowledge Of tastes and habits is possible, or
| indeed held desirable, tnere Is no attempt
at accommodation aftorward hence comes
all the latitude of French married life.
In England or Ireland the primal idea
of marriage is the sweet voluntary sub
lection of the wife in all minor details. A
marriage between an Irish or English man
| and an American woman is seldom q happy one.
With us tho question has been too much
tangled in all the confusion of wOmen's rights
and divorce suits to reach any accurate sOlu
tiOn Some of these days, perhaps, John and
Jenny will rub the rosy glamour from their
eyes before the wedding day enough to see
that their sweet dream of absolute unity is
vain, as long as John prefers broiled beef and
Jenny fried; that the enraptured scheme OF
incessant mutual concessions is ridiculous
while they have separate stomachs and di-
gestive organs, and that the wiser plan would DO
to loosen the yoke in the beginning, that each
may pull with his own natural gait and motion.
When John and Jenny understand that they
are marrying, not a second self, but sep
arate human being, with opinions, tastes, and
idiosyncrasies of his or her own, and right to
have them, they will lay the soundest founda-
ton for true unity in marriage.
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