Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1880-04-17
Some New Thoughts ON
Marriage.

Ire. lie quits all the companions
and associations of his youth, aud
becomes the chief attraction Of
new home. Every former tie is
loosened, the spring Of every hope
and action is to be changed, and
yet.he fees with joy 10 the un-
untrodden paths before him.
Then woe to the woman who car
blight such joyful antIcipations,
and wreck the bright hopes of the
trusting, faithful, fragrant mascu-
line blossom, and bang his head
against the sink, and throw him
under the cooking range, and
kick him into three-cornered
mass, and then Sit down on him.
Little do women realize that all
man needs under the broad ceru-
lean dome Of heaven is love-and
board ana clothes. Love is life.
If some woman or other don't
love him, and love him like a
hired man, he pines away and
eventually climbs the golden stair.
Man is born with strong yearn-
ings for the unyearnable, and he
does not care so much for wealth
as he does for some one who will
love him under ell circumstances
and In all conditions.
If women would spend their
evenings at home with their hus-
bands, they would see marked
change in the brightness of their
homes Too many sad-eyed men
are wearing away their lives at
home sewing buttons on. But
enough Of this. We would that
we had pen of fire to wife in let
tiers of living light the ignominy,
and continuity and-some more
things like that, the names of
which have escaped our memory,
that are to-day being visited upon
our sex.
Remember that your husband
has the most delicate sensibiIities,
and keenly feels your GOODNESS and
neglect. The former may be REM
edied by toasting the feet over
brisk fire before going to bed, but
the latter can only be remedied by
total reform on your part. Think
what you promised his parents
when you sued for his hand.
Think how his friends, and sew
eral girls to whom he had at diff
ferent times been engaged, came
to you with tears in their eyes and
hesought you to be kind to him.
Do these things ever occur to YOU
as you throw him over the card
table and mop the floor with his
remains /? Do you never feel the
twinges of remorse after you have
put an octagon head on him for
not wiping the dishes drier :?
Think what luxurious home YOU
took him from and how his moth.
er used to polish his boots and
take care of him, and think what
drudgery you subject him to now.
Think of what pain it must cause
him when you growl and swear at
him. Perhaps when you went
away to your work you did not
leave him coal and wood and wa
ter; does he ever repine at your
neglect?
All, if wives knew the wealth
Of warm and true affection lock ed
up in the bosoms of their hus-
bands, and would draw it out, in
stead of allowing the pert and
unprincipled hired girl to get all
the benefit, what a change there
would be in this world of ours
But they never do until the com.
panion CT their joys and serrows
has winged his way to the ever
green shore and takes charge of
the heavenly orchestra, and then
for about two weeks you will see
a violently red proboscis glim-
mering and sparkling under a
costly black veil, after which the
good qualities of the deceased will
be preserved in alcohol, to be
thrown up to No. 2 in the bright
days to come.
Then, in conclusion, wives in
Israel and other railroad towns,
love your husbands while yet it is
time. Give him your confidence.
If your active corn manifests a
wish to leave the reservation.
go to your husband with it,
Lean on him. He will get wood
rasp and make that corn look
sick. He is only waiting for your
confidence and your trust. Tell
him your business affairs, and he
will help you out. He will, no
doubt, offer to go without help in
the house in order to economiZe.
and he will think of numberless
other little ways in which to save
money. DO as we have told you
and your lives will be one great
combination of rare and beauti-
fully dissolvlng views. You will
journey down the pathway OF
your earthly existence with the
easy poetical glide of the fat man
who stems on the OranOn mol