The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-08-20
Tended her against the unjust law Of

the female sex. i am happy 10 De able 10 |
state that men, have not always had such |
easy times-and all the advantages. These |
same Greek Legislators punished man who |
remained bachelor; he was obliged to walk, |
naked, through the market place in winter, |
| singing a satirical song on himself. And |
under the laws of Plato any man who did |
not marry before the age of 35, or who mar
ried above, or below his rank, was punisha-
| BILE. In 1896 it was decided by vote that |
every unmarried man in the township of |
Eastman, Massachusetts, was compelled to |
kill six blackbirds, and three crows, |
yearly, as long us he remained single; |
and should he, during the period |
| of his penalty, really wish to marry, he |
would be restricted from doing so, until he |
had killed his quantity fof birds, and any |
that q e in arrears And in 1855, the As |
| sembly of Maryland laid a tax of five shil- |
lings year upon all bachelors, above % |
years of age, who were possessed of f100, and |
of 20 shillings yearly, upon bachelors, and |
widowers without children, who were above |
that age. and worth f300. Would it not be |
well for our solons of the Legislatureto con-
slider the feasibility of passing law, taxing
our bachelors and childless widowers?
1t is said that in Venezuela, where lover
asks for the hand of his inamorata, her father
gives him very hard stone to pierce. This
task takes long time, and it is only when
it has been accomplished, that the suitor's
request is granted. Were such an undertake
ing to be given to the young men of this
country, labor-saving machine would
doubtless soon be invented to expedite the
operation. Marriages in France and Eng
land are sort of royal gambling-an exalt-
ed species of lottery. They should more
properly be called alliances they are so
nicely calculated, a sort of a give-and-take
arrangement, with no bond, no union, no
, sacrament. And yet wherein lies the nobler
incentive in such a marriage de CONVEYANCE
: as this, or in human, congenial, and loving
6 union as that of G. H. Lewes and George
| Eliot. Must we shut our eyes to right and
wrong, in order not to see the right? That there
is a strange fascination in noble passion,
there is no contesting; and when one hears of
a truly sympathetic union, such as the one
4 just quoted, we have all sufficiently loved, to
be ready to excuse, if not to palliate. They did
as Lucy Stone suggested; they appealed to
!. arbitrators, mutually chosen, who decided
= their fate for them.
The life of the English girl is more like
a our own, only without the same freedom, or,
. as our conventional cousin will have it
| loose manners of the Americans. Young
English ladies, however, do walk out in the
!, daytime alone, but never in the evening do
= they attend places of amusement or parties
u with gentlemen, not even with their betrothed
: husbands. 1 am told, however, that an en-
/
= together, but this is an innovation. And then
: when the young lady is married, she is not
. overburdened with freedom, so that it is
:, rather difficult to determine which is the
happier period of her existence the married
> or single state. Were she permitted to follow
y the dictates of her heart, she might not miss
= her freedom, but, considering all things, one
y can not assume that our fair English cousins
g have a pleasant time of it. The French
, woman, on the contrary, while she may lead
- a secluded life girl, is comparatively a
y free agent as married woman. She loses
. none of the thousand marks of difference Law
ished upon American women, but gains much
y in the advantage of complete guardianship
u and when the inevitable and proverbial rainy
- day comes, she is equal to the
lo emergency, and without any appearance
- of false pride falls to, and helps the husband
aS She may make bonnets or robes, keep &C
=, counts or sell goods, give lessons in music Oh
:" painting, or utilize, in some way or another
:, one of the many resources she has within her
~ self Philosophers, from time to time, have
: decided that marriage was death to love, anC
the many cases proving this doctriue, have
~ strengthened the foundations of the heresy
y. io There have been and are, intellectual being
- who are not adapted for happy matrimony
NC There may be too much love, on the one side
"a and too much mind on the other. Thel
y comes lack of comprehension from the Low
ne ing one, and lack of love from the intel
=. lectual, and thus the little wedge of division
- commences its work. Alasl for the dura
!. bility of such union. / wonder how tn
= much-honored custom, once extant in Zurich
- would affect the disposition of such couple
- When an application made in Zuric
- for divorce based on incompatibility of TEN
~ per the magistrate, according to the custom
4; of the country, had the parties applying shu
- up in an isolated tower on the lake. Their
az they remained for Is days, obliged to in
habit the same room, having only one bee
art one chair, one knife one fork; so that the
er- were entirely dependent upon each other 70
es their mutual comfort. If after this tria
a they still persisted in their demand, then tn
ms ordinary procedure commenced and tn
In legal tribunals decided. Very frequently tn
application for divorce, at first so warml
IN solicited, was entirely abandoned, upon tn
up release from the tower.
Ter There are no marriages more ill-assorteo
let than those of Americans with foreigners; a
eu rule they prove mistake. l remembe
II once listening to dissertation upon thi
les very subject from one of our foreign consul
tie He referred, principally, to the bargaining
ne for titles, INDUCED in by ambitious America
I'LL mothers, and the actual selling of rich an
IN. beautiful daughters, for a titled name, to tn
IN cruel treatment they invariably received, t
ZEN the mutual differences in opinions-thei
icy diverse religions, customs and friends. An
ed it was enough to make ones heart ache, t
ne hear of the cases that had actually came III
he der his personal observation. One fact b
Ill. remarked as being particularly noticeable
'p- namely, that foreign ladies are rarely sougf
Sc in marriage by American gentlemen. Thel
ere may be two reasons for this; first, that th
nd ladies in question have no desire to entom
lie: high-sounding cognomeD by becomin
OF plain Mrs. John Jones' or even Mrs. L. j.
OF Mortimer. But let us hope for the credit
nts our own dear girls that the second reaso
Sc NAV be- the. s,1perior attraction of hon
an. material.
nj
to Keep the Body Erect.
the An erect bodily attidue is of vastly mo-