The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-10-14


while yet the man was a supplicat
ing candidate for her preferences
Perhaps the retort might be made
that you do not take as much pains
to make yourself attractive now rs
you did then. That wife makes an
awful and eternal mistake who, af-
ter marriage, resigns tastefulness
of attire and all those little arts
which are indescribable, but which
help to make up womanly attrac-
tiveness. When you greet him at
nightfall on his return from store
or banking house or office, are you
rs careful to --o.t his admiration s5
during the first week of your ac-
quaintance. The simple fact is that
many women make their charms q
net for one haul and then they
throw the net away. You played
the piano like Thalberg or Colts
ci $ * before marie GA and eav vr.-
can not play at all. If you live six,
ty years together you ought never
to cease to be the bride adorned
for your husband. But perhaps
you spend the evening fretting
about the servants or decrying the
fact that you have it worse than
your neighbors, or picking at his
faults, putting him into sort of
infant class over which you are the
supervisor, instead of making the
house a small heaven for his per
turbed spirit. l believe that un
wise and frettul and jealous women
build one-half the club houses. IT
women would read newspapers and
books, though but ten minutes, and
become intelligent enough to hold
stout political argument, as between
Hancock and Garfield, and be awake
TO all the stirring questions Of the
day, they would make their homes
club house, to which outsiders
would flock. One intelligent wo-
man has more attractiveness than
twenty intelligent men. The law
suit has begun. The attorneys on
both sides are ready. The witnesses
are in the courtroom. The next
case on the calendar is the club
house versus the domestic circle.
Another mighty foe of the family
relation is the prevalent doctrine of
free love. Newspapers in advocacy
of these doctrines fill the land. The
greatest argument against it is that
the advocates of it, without any ex-
ception, turn out libertines. Hav
ing broken up their own home, they
go about to destroy the homes of
others. This obscene flock of car
rion crows cav, cav, cav, on their
way to and from the moral car
casses. They are almost all spirit.
ualists, and they get the people of
this world and the neXt so mixed
up that they do not know who be-
long to them and who belong TO the
others. Free love and spiritualism
are twin sisters, and their morals
are so bankrupt that they cannot
pay one per cent. of righteousness.
l can tell the spirits of the next
world that if they can not find any
better company than they are said
to pick out on earth, they had bet
ter stay where they are if they have
any regard for their reputation,
When those who are united in holy
marriage have special afilnity for
some one outside the bond, they
had better go to studying the ten
commandments. Such persons are
on the edge of fall about 10000
feet down. But at that distance
they only strike once on the rocks
and then bound off into the unfath-
omable.
Another enemy of the domestic
relation is easy divorce. People
get reckless about entering this re-
lation because they think that, if at
any time they desire the knot un-
tied, the law will unite it. France
declared by law that people might
unmarry as they please. In Paris
in one year 10000 divorces took
place, and in one year $4,000 chill
dren were sent to the foundling
hospitals. When the law lets down
the bars, all the cattle of moral
beastliness break into the gardens
of home. In the prosperous days
of Rome, there was only one divorce
recorded in 500 years. She changed
her laws, and then the deluge. Di-
vorce is too easy in this country.
The town of Lacrosse, Wisconsin,
had seventy-four cases of divorce
suits in one year. Philadelphia had
2S2 suits for divorce in one year.
Divorce cases in New York have
increased five per cent. To get rid
of your obligation you have only
to absent yourself a short time in
Illinois and Indiana. If marriage
be civil contract merely, then all
this is right, and you may part with
q conjugal companion as you do
with a store, or a farm, or a horse.
If it he a divine union, then let
those legislators or judges of courts
who have TO do with these matters
beware that on no grounds except
those announced by the God of
Heaven this relation be unlocked.
"Whom God hath joined together,
let no man put asunder." When
the people of this land are taught
that marriage is a divine contract
from which their names will not be
erased except on the marble slab of
the sepulchre, more deliberation
ard common sense and prayer will
be exercised before this stupendous
task is taken. Instead of being
lassoed with a curl, or risking their
hearts in philopena. or marrying
Just for fun, they will realize that
between cradle and grave there is no
place so tremendous IS the mar