The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1880-08-13
VI arriage.
Miss Hnrlnker contributed tho follow

Miss Hardaker contributed the follow
ing to the North american Review:
Happy unions IRE always voluntary,
not only at the beginning, but as long rs
life lasts. Love cannot be made free by
a change of statutes. IL cannot be
bound or lOosed under any circumstances.
of those who ask that sex relations be
exempted from control, the experience
of quarter of century would convince
the world that the old, long-tried, mono
gamic solution of the sex question il the
wise one. There IL an evident reason
why such result would come. In all
the past emotional experience of the race
1t has been found impossible to create
an intense idealization of more than one
object ut one time; it has been found,
too, that when such idealizati0n has
been tested by knowledge and time, it
does not diminish, but deepen; and the
effect of this long-continued idealization
is to create the best conditions of de-
velopment, both for those who exercise
il, and for those toward whom it is
directed.
Now, il tho best conditions of happi-
ness are once secured, they should he
maintained. It is not possible to bring
out all the results of this mutual sex
idealizntion in any short period of asso-
citation. The very fact that the assOcia-
ton il permanent one gives il earnest
ness and dignity. 1t would not be posi-
BILE to extract from half dozen assOcia-
tons, extending over twenty-five years,
the same amount of fine character de-
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fortunate association lasting for the same
time. When we are once sure of the
wisdom, integrity and affection of some
friend through long experience, we spend
no more brain activity in learning his
peculiarities of character, and in adapt
ing ourselves to him. The association of
husband and wife is rather moral and
atiectional than intellectual. 1t is rest,
certainty, IA point of departure for all
other activities. Once settled, and safe
ly settled, We waste no power in read
| justing these relations, but take the fruit
as it ripens, without the need Of uproot-
ing the old and planting new trees.
~ WOrth's.
If were u writer OH political economy
l would indite treatise after treatise in
the effort to show our countrywOmen
how wrong they are, in every way, to do
their shopping in Paris. 1t is unwise;
in the long run it il costly; it is thor
oughly unpatriotic. The English women,
with the great mart of Paris Mt nine and
quarter hours distance from their
doors, do far less shopping on the boule-
wards and the Rue de In Paix than the
10 yh1 t,,
ocean in order to bite this Dead sea fruit.
The ambition of the majority of Ameri-
can women being to have u Worth cos
tune, let lis follow an American woman
who has arrived in his rooms in the Rue
dc In Paix in her search for Worth cos
tune. In the first place she will be
astonished to find in this temple of
draperies, which she thought dedicated
to the scant few of wealth, a surging
throng of humanity-men, women, COM
mon, vulgar, some much Overdressed,
others shabby--a crowd in all respects
similar to that which makes existence
mere struggle for room to breathe in
those vast halls of traffic, the Bon
Marche and the Grands Magasins du
Louvre. The only creature / ever saw
who thoroughly corresponded to the de-
scription Hawthorne gives of the "bull
woman "A repulsivc object with com.
plexiOn as coarse and almost as
dark ~ an elephants hide; great,
pendant lip dropping over the ami
malistic chin; black mailed, pud-
ding hands wandering foatingly over
rich garment she was inspecting--I came
upon the instant l entered Worth's
rooms the other day. After her l could
take no count of any one, the throng
was 30 great. Worth himself never sees
these people, nor are any late styles ever
shown this shifting throng. But say
that IN American lady wants a certain
dress, is prepared to pay a round price
for it. Very well; she gives her order,
and the dress is made for her by en-
ployes of exactly the same class who,
when in business for themselves, charge
from $l5 to $40 for making q costume.
Here, price for making is something
never heard of. The dress complete
costs from $3.50 to 800. A lady friend
of mine has just paid 5000. Quite half
clear profit in all these cases is probably
Worth's proportion. Meantime the
anxiety attendant upon the fitting, the
completion, the Thousand and one de-
tails, is something absolutely unpainta-
BILE, as endured by Mrs. Nobody, from
America, who may require another dress
in five years time, and may not, and
whether she is pleased or vexed is trif-
ling matter in an establishment of such
worldwide renown. Mind you, do
not underate the talent of Worth him.
self. He is man who would undenia-
bly, made his mark in painting if he had
been taught to hold the pallet instead of
the shears. His eye for color is wonder
full, and he has almost Phidean grace
with drapery. But those women for
whom he exercises his genius must con-
tent themselves with that favor and put
every other consideration aside.-Oiire
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