The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-10-21


ing repast-6 or 7 in the evening-can
find much time for club house. Ii
seems to me from 6 to 8 in the evening
man ought to be aOle to stand II WIN
his family, or take some OF them out Tor
recreation. / never knew man ruined
by being too domestic in his habits, and
spending his evenings at home; while l
C uId give you the roll of thousands who
lost their morals, their fortunes and
their lives, by just the opposite course.
When man likes any place more than
his home, look out for breakers How
can you tell whether he likes his home
better than other plaCetP By this RUE;
A man stays most where he likes 1t the
best. One man out of hundred has q
will so strong, and his morality 80 con
frmed, hat he can spend every night
away from home forty years, and keep
pure and honest and sober. But the W
out Of one hundred by such absenteeism
from home are depleted in moral firm
ness, and the years are a pair of stairs
to let them down to Immortality and
death. Ask the good, honest, Christian
women OF Brooklyn what they think OF
the institutions which take the husband
and father and son away, night after
night, for months and years. There are
Club houses no doubt very good, and
some No doubt very polluted. | speak
of neither the first class nor the worst,
but of the average Club house, when
say it i the worst foe of Christian life in
New York and Brooklyn.
But who build most of the Club houses
of our great cities? | answer: In many
cases, the women. A woman complains
that he same attentions are not paid her
now, since her marriage, that were paid
her when the young nan was snpDll'
eating candidate for her preferences.
Perhaps the retort might be made that
you do not take as much care to m ke
yourself as attractive now as you then
did. That wife makes unpardonab' 2
mistakes who, after marriage, resigns all
taste in appear nee and those little artE
which are indisCribabIe, but which help
to make up womanly attraCtivenese,
When you greet him at nightfBl on his
return from business, are you as careful
to meet his admiration as during the
first week of your acquaintance I e
simple fact is that many women make
their charms the net for one haul, and
then throw the net away, YOn played
the piano like Thalburg or Got sChalk
before marriage, and now you cannot
play at all. If you live sixty years to
gether, you ought never cease to be h.
same bride adorned for your husband
But perhaps you spend the evening fret
ting about the servants, or deCrying the
fact that you have it worse than your
neighbors, or picking at his faults, put
ting him into a sort of infaUt class over
which you are the supervisor, instead OF
making the house a small heaven for his
perturbed spirit. believe that unwise
and fretiu and jealous women build one
h If the Club houses, If women would
read more and gossip less and bs
able to discuss the live questions Of the
day, they would make their homes more
attractive. One intelligent oman has
more attraction than twenty intelligent
men. The lawsuit has begun. The a.
torneys on both sides are ready. The
next case on the calendar is Club house
vs. the Domestic Circle.
Another mighty foe of the family rela
tion is the prevalent doctrine of Free
Love. Newspapers are filled with this
heresy. the greatest argu ent against
it is, its advocates without exception
turn out libertines. This obscene flock
of Carrion crows cav, cav cav, on their
way to and from the moral carCasses
They are almost all Spiritua lists ano
get the people of this world and the
next 80 mixed up, they don't low who
belong to them and who belong to the
others. Free Love and Spr tuaIism are
twin sisters; their morals so corrupt they
can not pay ONE per cent of righteous
ness. / can tell the spirits of rhe nexl
world if they can not find any bette,
company than they are said to pick oui
on earth, they had better stay where
they are i, they have any regard for their
reputation. When those who are united
in holy marriage have special atfioity
for some one outside thai bond, they d
better 90 to studying the Ten Command
ments. Such persons are Oh the edge #
a fall about ten Thousand feet down. Buf
at that distance they on Iy strike on the
rocks and then bound off into the un.
fathomable.
Another enemy of the domestic rela
ton is easy divorce. People get reck-
less abou entering the marriage relation,
because they think if at any time they
desire the knot united, the law will un
tie it. France declared by law that peo.
pie might unnaFry as they pleased. In
Paris, in one year, 10000 divorces took
p ace, and in one year 48 600 children
we're sent to the fOundling hospitals Iu
the prosperous days Of Rome here was
only one divorce recorded in five huud-
red years. She changed her laws ard
then the deluge. Divorce is too easy in
this country. Divorce cases in n "
York have increased per cent. To get
rid of your obligation you have only to
absent yourself a short time in Illinois
or Indiana, If marriage be civil con
tract only, then all this is right, aud you
may part with cOnjugal co panion as
you do with store, Or farm, or horse,
II it be divine union, then let Judges
Of Courts, who have to DO with these
matters, beware that on no grounds ex
cept those announced by God himself,
this relation be unlocked "Whom Gpd
oath joined together let not man pul
asunder," When the people of The land
are taught that marriage is divine con.
ract, from which their names will not
be erased except on the marble slab OF
the sepucher, more deliberatiOn and
common sense will be exercised before
entering into it. Instead of being las
soed with a curl, or risking their near
in a phllopeDa, or marrying just for fun,
they will realize that between cradle and
grave there is no place 30 tremendous a.
the marriage altar; and while before it
the pair are joining hands in betrothal,
standing between them, all unseen, is
either the white winged angel of bless-
ing, or the horned and hoofed and fred
nostril of despair.
Again, | count corrupt literature as the
foe of the marriage relation. The fact
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