Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1877-05-19

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IN life, bat 10 unable tn Prri.'rm them 10y
reason of that weakness of the ns~h
which no physician eau cure.
Old age: u not that hall ever in
creasing in weigh, and power, till at last
the prisoner of time has To yield and
confess his master.
Uncongenial companions and ipharmo-
NOUS circumstances, the prejudices that
We cherish, and We may add those that
We excite, our ignorance and our in
ability, our pride and our poverty, are
chains and balls impeding the progress
of the wayfarer in ''life's dark way
punishments laid on him by fate and for
tune, which he has to bear with the
greatest amount of equanimity, and drag
with as little expenditure Of vital force
in useless fretting as is possible. q
But Of all forms. the matrimonial
chain and ball is perhaps the most Listing
and hard to he borne. You are an &rtist
in soul; never II ind your executionz.that
is a matter Of mere practice, Will the
spirit is the GOd-gift which, if you 9pos-
sess it, is torture to you not to use. But
your prosaic husband, who should have
married German hdus.frau, whom1 then
he would have treated as a squaw rather
than Christian lady-he bids you put
away your paint box and 60 watch the
simmering of the Irish stew. The Irish
stew will simmer to toothsome perfectness
of condition without your standing over
the kitchen fire, burning your face and
irritating your general servant" who
thinks herself capable Of such mild care
as seething stewpan demandss but the
lights and shadows on that hill opposite
will pass, and you can never recover them.
The wife who pouts over the time that
you take from her to give to those dry hi,-
torical researches whereby you hope IT,
make not only your own name and fame,
but a work that shall have an enduring
value for all future time-a history that
shall be a text book t. all later scholars
and the ne plus ultra to which critical
research can go-she also is chain and
ball in your way. She is doll whom in
a weak moment you married, thinking
that her sweet face and caressing nran-
ner meant nature to match. You find
out when too late that her soul was left
out Of the list when she was made; and
that the brightest eyes and rosiest cheeks,
the fairest flesh and blood that ever lived,
arc only the features Of lovely mask
with nothing behind. Her whole life
lie. in dress and pleasure; and husband
with her means only the chief of her
admirers. Your grave pursuits then are
her enemies, which she wishes to destroy;
but to you what is she2 what her frivOii-
ties. her i"capacity to think9 A chain
and n ball, none the less heavy to bear
becau,e fhged into so pretty pattern,
and bound by the law Of church and
state a out your neck.
The lover Of humanity and believer iu
the p.ogre.s of the great family, and
the cynic to whom dogs are worthier
than men and cats, more interesting than
women; the adorer Of Garibaldi, who in
old days used to weep over his wrong.
and those IF Ttalv tooethpr and the end
critic who declares patriotism u sham,
and the ''liberstor" neither more nor less
than comedian and . charlatan; the
wershippers Of the pre- Rsphaelite school,
and the delighter in Rubens and Guido;
the passionate enthusiast for classic art,
and the soul given mp tn modern trinkets
and the extreme of to-dsy's fashions; ell
the-e and otier diverse sentiments
ccaPled tgefher-are they no, mutually
chains and halls Ia eseh other. ~tic, are
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the nature i.i-Hesss y~arasi