National Republican., 1877-11-07


and Short Sie'ches appropriate 10 hb depart-
mont Please address such Communications b
he Rspub'ieaa Office care Editor Of ne Corner.
Give him Warm wcicoms.
oh mother and sister. aud vito.
while You 81 eve or the Ills that you hest
Aud charge all the woes q your .orrpwhIl liz
Think l. he only To blame.
The husband. the brother. the snn,-
For the poverty, misery sorrow or shame
That have followed you. one by onet
Did you always greet with delight
Ilis coming from la-ir to ,est-
D'd you Welcome hIm home at noon or Of n'sht
Aud when he came hrmc with sigh.
BrCRu' Q there was nothing to do,
And srOke uf the season 0f idlcnrSs nigh
u d his heart receive comfort from youf
Did You meet him with coi IncsS md scornt
pa You answer his Ptint with a snee-t
Though you knew that hIS soul was with agony
At the prospect .n gloomy and dreart
How sah when Mt close Of The day
The home. ward bound hu,ricdIy Res.
To hear the poor dCstlate lnltUrer Ny
There's nobody waiting for meI'
OH tlIiuk NJ the pcrIlS that wait
Alwnys wait in adyer'ty's court,
Pur the husband, the sIn. OF the brother. whom
Has marked for her p'tIle.. sporti
Be kind b. him. then IN the hour
WIEN nSis 1 80" Of RI i@ %Sd mFoy Ior
Make home his sweet haven OF rost
Advica to Bacheiors.
EVERY dog has his day." and 40 has the
bachelor. In all this weary old world there il
no creature more hopelessly foriOrn than the
unmarried man who has outlived the pleas
ures of his youth and finds himself jogging
alone-with ever-increasing speed, despite gout
and rhcumatism-down the sunset slope Of
life. While the bloom Of youth was on him
he was gay gallant, whom maneuvering
mammas and marriageable daughten "foi-
| lowed fattered, sought and sued !" but whea
he enters the season of the and yellow
| leaf, and people find out that he Is q confirmed
old bachelor who positively will not marry.
then female nattcrers drop away, mater fa-
miiias become devoted to more younger and
| more eligible besux, and the girls turn up
| their dainty noses at him. SO the social tics
| of "auld lang syne" are one by one severed,
| aud no new ones come 10 take their places;
| then he flies to his club for companonship, but
| even there he must stand aside and play second
fiddle to younger rivals. In short, he finds him.
self at fifty complete social failure and II does
not help the matter any when he realizes too
late that II Is all his own fault. Having been
rendered doubly vain and selfish by over-adu-
lation in his Lalcyon days, he still hanken
| restlessly after admiration, and were ho lea
| conceited he could discover with half an eye
| that his fancied friends" do not care straw
| for him; that they use him only as suits their
| own pleasures and that behind his back thsv
hold his foibes up to ridicule. And ii
SERVES HIN RIGHT,
too; for he has neglected his heaven appointed
| mission in life-that of making some woman
happy, and of building up solace for his own
and her old age in the shape of home and iam-
| lily ties, and children TO rise upi his sdocining
years and call him blessed" If Longfellow'S
idea Is correct, that
"No one Is 30 accurscd by fate-
No one so utterly desolate,
| But some heart, though unknown,
Responds unto his own
| then there Is somewhere o desolate aud dried
up old maid, stranded upon the rugged sands
of time, whose life is as barren and bleak -
his own-all because he neglected to find and
| marry herl Oh, you grabbed old customer:
you selfish and sinful bachelor, we call upon yos
to repent and turn from the error of your ways
ere 1t is everlsstinRly too late, and you become
so chronically sour and snappish and altogether
| disagreeable that no woman in the world will
have you. Besides, you are loosing all the
| real sweetness of life, and are pursuing an
ig,is fdtur of fancied pleasure which will in
levitably leave you at last TO founder hope-
less and alone through the morass Of q regret
ful old age. Matrimony may not at all timcs
present paths of peace" but In the main "its
ways are ways Of pleasantness," and Of two
evils 1t Is always wise 10 choose the least"
Single blessedness" Is myth when . man o.
woman has passed the golden rubicon of middle
life, and since misery loves company" evoA
occasional double wretchedness" Is prefersble
TO continual solitary WOO.
Think Of the
JOYS OF HOME,
sweet home" In the true sense Of the worda
not merely place to stay, shelter TO eat and
sleep in but that dearest spot in all the world,
be 1t ever so humble; that one oasis in the
desert of life; that haven Of rest toward which
all hearts turn with q longing DESIRE Some
writer has said home Is not 4 name, q form, .
routine; 1t Is aspirit, presence, a principleg
material and method will not make Il. II musteo&
most Of its light and sweetness from the loving
and sympathizing hearts of those who inhabiS
it," No member Of such home will care b
linger outside Its sacred precincts longer thaa
the duties of the day demand. Under IL
sacred influences all annoyances are forgottea.
stormy tempers hushed and sorrows healed,
Within 1t "life's trite things are set to music"
and each inmate daily casts upon the commoa
altar separate offering, be 1t great or small,
of pleasantness aud peace. Love Is the great.
est Of all powers, when inwrought by thaS
true sympathy that "seeketh not its own," .
greater motor than any Kelley or Watt o
enough, perhaps, improbable as 1t may Soon,
! to render fussy, fudgy, cross grained anA
cynical old bachelor fit to live with.
Social Gossip.
On da, that Miss Addio Lutz and Mr. Csa
Howard are to be married early next week.
Also, the approaching marriage Of Miss Col,
gate and Lieutenant Mosher, of the United
States Signal Service, Is announced.
Miss Antoinetts Polk, now q resident a
Rome, Is about to marry Baron de CharotsA
late commander Of the PontiAcal ZousvoI
Miss Polk is direct descendant Of Williaa
Penn, Of Pennsylvania fame, and Of Gen. Az
thony Wayne, onco commandsr-in chief Of the
American army; also relative Of the lats
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