The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-10-15
MemOries Of the Hast.
TFree Press Household.1

| MemOries Of the FRsf. ,
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! "Memory-how fondly the soul loves to linges
Through thv dur <f>aew-land wandering
away
How many sweet recolIeetons come to
everyone when the past is brought up
to the review of faithful memory.
Although our life may be darkened
by deep care and trouble, still all,
without exception, have once lived in
sunshine, if only for short time. How
we love to dwell on those happy times,
gone never to return.
In our trials and hardships is yit pleas
anter to remember the joys of the past,
or is "a sorrows crown Of sorrow remem-
bering happier thingsw
Who is there that would wish all the
past blotted out3 Ask the wretch if he
would have the water of oblivion efface
all the past, the joys as well as sorrows.
His countenance brightend at the thought
of forgetting his wicked life and once
more be free. He cries:
"Fill with forgetfulnessl
Fill high the oblivous oowll'
| Give him one moments time to cast a
glance backward. There will come to
him visions of dear faces. He hears
again soft, gentle voice long stilled in
death. Was it mothers; a sisters, or
one who was dearer than all else on earth ?
Once in the current of the past he
forgets the present and is carried back to
his innocent childhood's days. Weary
and tired his mother folds him to her bo-
som, showering kisses of fondest affection
upon his pure, innocent brow. He is
kneeling again at his mothers knee, lisp
ing with childish accent the prayer she
taught him. When he grew to manhood
and went out in the world to struggle
with the tide, how she clung to him,
praying heaven to bless and guide her
boy. All these and more rush over his
mind. With start he awakes to the
dread reality-the present. He heaves a
deep sigh. The tears trickle down his
pale and sunken cheeks and he sobs like
child.
"For their sake, for the dead whose image naught
May dim within my heart
| For their sake l ask not to forget"
Time cannet blot out the past. Who
would wish it? Some recollections we
might wish to erase, if possible; but when
the pleasant and unpleasant reminis-
cences are weighed, we will find in most
instances that the pleasant will out-bal-
ance the unpleasant.
| Heartlessness OF the American Father-in-
Law.
New York Tmes.l
The American father, with very rare
exceptions expects his son-in-law to un-
dertake entire maintenance, and, as a
young man graphically expressed it, "the
utmost the old man does is to offer you
backroom of the house."
When this country was young, and
peoples ideas of what was necessary for
living were on most moderate scale,
this might have done very we'll, but now
a-days it is often passing hard on the
young. 1t is absurd to say that man is
marrying for money because he says that
he cannot marry without it. A young
man with $S, 200 year makes rash ven
ture if he should marry a girl reared in
great luxury with nothing but trous-
seau; but if her father would settle$2, 600
year on her the case is materially al
tered. A mere allowance, revocable at
will, or certain to terminate in the event
of financial catastrophe, is very small
| satisfaction to young man.
A principal reason why in Europe
some, however small, substantial settle
ment il insisted on is with view not
merely to the interests Of the married
pair and their children, but to those of
the families on either side, for when
young Brown marries Miss Robinson, old
Brown and old Robinson clearly recog
nize the certainty of young Mrs. Brown
and their children coming down upon
their respective families in the event OF
trouble, unless such contingency is duly
provided against by ante-nuptial provi-
sion. In the case of persons of small
means, such provision is, of course, but
slender, yet, except in the case of the
very poor, it is usually sufficient to give
a roof-tree, with food, clothes, and fire
There is not a shadow of doubt that the
refusal of fathers to make settlement
on daughters prevents many women
from making highly desirable marriages,
and tends more than aught else to swell
the rapidly atgmenting ranks Of mature
spinsterhood.
Low Physical Sensibility.