The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1877-06-07

to every concession and everyindulgence.
The little prince listened with . very
earnest face, and when Mile. Margot Som
nino, the granddaughter Of Gen., Della
Rocco, appeared, she found herself the,
pet and darling of the party, who We'd
with each other in polite attentions.
" Husbands and Wives.
~ They are just married." was the re-
mark Of all the fellow passengers of Ger
tain couple on a railwa train the other
day. And wherever that couple went on
their journey the same observation was
repeated. There are certain indications
about the recently welded which always
betray The happy parties as enjoying their
honeymoon" Though from time i'm
memorial the said moon has been regard
ed as transient, every woman who mar
ries thinks that her case is an exception,
and that the new happiness is to be con-
tinued indefinitely between the twain
until death do them part. It is not pleas
ant to think that the woman who thus
confdes must, in too many cases, be dis
appointed. She must find that the suitor
who professed that her companionship
was the one thing necessary to his happi-
ness will discover that there are many
other things which her husband deems
pleasant, and with which the wife has lit
tie, if anything, to do. As rule, the less
she is interested in his outdoor move
ments the better he is pleased.
Courtship is one thing. Welded life
another Tnd0o1 fnw
as to say that nearly every boy or man is
in chronic opposition to the girls or
women in the family where he domiciles.
1t is charged that the lads would not
go courting" if it did not vex their
sisters; and that they would not marry if
mothers were not in some cases entirely
averse to their marriage, and others only
submissive under protest. The marriage Of
man is in some sort Of triumph over his
own female kindred. These kindred sub
NIT, as the say submission is woman's
lot. And they make the best of it, and
sweeten the inevitable with womanly
gentleness.
But the husband-what of hims The
new husband is elate with the conscious
ness of having won the girl of his choice
He has taken wife, all objections to the
contrary Notwithstanding. He takes her
on his arm with all the pride of a captor
and conqueror. Nobody disputes his
victory. Mother and sisters become his
wife's allies and endorse tho proceeding
with all their. hearts. He is monarch Of
all he surveys. There are no more con-
tentions, for everybody has indolsed the
arrangement,as if everybody had heartily
approved and promoted it .1om the first
He might rest on his laurels-but
laurels will not always keep green, and
the dry leaves metaphor ically choke him.
He looks for new conqucsts, and selects
his wife for an antagonist 1t is not that
he does not love her. He loved his mo-
ther. 1t is not that he would not do any
and everything for her that does not in
terfere with his own wllims and caprices.
He did all that for his sisters. But he re-
bclled under their control; and having,
boy like, annoyed them, man like, he
annoys his wife. Evenings at home be-
come wearsisome, and evenings abroad,
it his wife must be with him, are hardly
less so. As he declined to be tied to his
mothers "apron strings he is frettcd by
his marriage tie: He has pressing bust
ness which keeps him from the tea table,
and which encroaches on his evening
hours. His wife's looks of remonstrance
are considered "fussy," and her claims
upon hin, put in words, are met by pro-
tests. Ana so the honeymoon frequently
passes its last quarter, with, unfortunately
no promise OF a new moon of the same
happy description in the matrimonial
calendar.
Then other affairs come in to engross
the gloom's attention-boat clubs, bill
lizards: base bali, holses, "the LODGE" sup
per with some of the "old fellows" "po;-
itics," hotels saloons: and all the rest
And he just drops i'll at the theatre, you
know, quite accidentally, because Smith
told him of very particular attraction.
IT he had only thought of it at dinner
time, he would have asked Sarah to get
ready. And so on. Mind these are thir gs
that the women find out, though they may
he very cautious in speaking about them.
These are the general heaGs under the
fears they have that their husbands like
to escape the company which, as suitors,
they priced above every o.her. The men
must answer to their own consc;ences how
far the suspicious are we'll founded, and
in many cases husbands, even of some
years. standing, would perhaps do we'll to
live their " attentive" days over again, and
spark their wives afiesh. The change
from the wan ana weary or the slightly
martyr aspec: which many wives wear
would be thing as wei! worth seeing as
any advertised attraction and the voice
of cheerful vie as wei! worth hearing as
any drama, opera or lecturc.-Phizadez-
p1tia Ledger.