The river press. [volume] (Fort Benton, Mont.) 1880-current, 1881-07-13
q SWEET SEX.
0pposites in harriage-The Mysterious
Bench Woman.-How Hindoo Women
are made Straight, etc.

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Theodore Parker wrote: aYoung people
marry their opposises in temperament and
general character, and such marriages are
generally good ones. They dot instinct
lively. The young man does not say, MY
black eyes require to be wed with blue, and
nv oyer-yehemence requires to be 9 little
modified with somewhat OF dullness and re-
serve When these opposites come together
to be wed they do not know it, but each one
thinks the other just like himself. Old poo
pie never marry their opposites; they marry
their similars, and from calculation. Each
of these two arrangements is very proper.
Id their long journey these opposites will fall
out by the way . great many times, ana
charm the other back again, and by and by
they will be agreed as to the place they Will
20 to, and the road they will go by, and both
become resonciled. The man will be nobler
and larger for being associated with SO much
humanity unlike herself, and she will be a
noblar woman for having manhood BESIDE
her that seeks to correct her Deficiencies and
Buddy III "lth vAat GAS AcsShA9
real generosity and love In their hearts 20 pc
Gin with. The old bridegroom, haVlng 9
much shorter journey to make, must assocl-
ate himself with one like himself. A perfect
and complete marriage is, perhaps, IS rare as
perfect personal beauty. Men and women
are married fractionally now q small frac-
ton, then a large fraction. Very few are
married totally, and they only, ! think, after
some forty or fifty years Of gradual approach
and experiment. Such a large and sweet
fruit is complete marriage that it needs q very
long summer to ripen ia, and then . very
long winter to mellow and season. But a
real, happy marriage of love and judgment
between q noble man and oma is one Of
the things 90 very handsome that il the sun
were, as the Greek poets tabled, a god, he
might stop the world in order to feast his
eyes with such o spectacle"
A WoMAN's AGE.
A case has just been decided before the
Appeal Court at Metz which shows how a
lady's age is q matter entirely within her own
control. Fraulein Catherine Mahl was en-
gagged TO 8 desirable partner, to whom she
had imprudently declared her age at six years
less than it really was. AS soon as the mo-
ment arrived for producing the certificate Of
birth, she was aware that her little deception
would be discovered, and she feared that the
would be broken off. She, therefore,
took the liberty Of altering the official docu-
ment SO as to make it correspond with the
statement already made. The ceremony took
place, and the husband was duly united to a
lady whom be believed to be quite a GENE
Unfortunately the certificate, il
throagh some office, happened to be
The bride was charged with the ofHense of
classifying q public document, and condemned
to spend, if not her honeymoon, at least
three of the first months of her married life
in prison. She had the courage to appeal
from the sentence, and cause the case to be
before the court of Metz, which re-
versed the decision Of the inferior tribunal, I
and acquitted the lady On the ground that she
did not intend to commit an illegal act, but
had been actuated only By female vanity
HOW GIRLS ARE MADE STRAIGHT.
The Hindo girls are graceful and exquis-
formed. From their earliest childhood
they are accustomed to carry burdens upon
their heads. The water for family use is al
ways brought by the girls in earthen jars,
carefully poised in this way. The exercise
Is said to strengthen the muscles of the back,
while the chest is thrown forward. No
backs are seen III Hindostan. DR.. EEL.
Spray says this exercise of carrying small
of water on the head might be adyan-
tageously introduced into boarding schools
and private families, and that it might en-
tirely supersede the present machinery Of
dumb-bells, blackboard, skipping ropes, etc.
The young ladies ought to be taught to carry
the jar as the Hindoo women do. The same
Of carrying water leads to precisely
The same results In the south Of Italy as il
India. A Neapolitan female peasant will
carry on her head a vessel full of water to
the very brlm, over Q rough road, and not
spill q drop of il, and the acquisition Of this
art or knack gives her the same erect and
gait.
THE MYSTERIOUS BENCH WOMAN.
I'll the Avenue Gabriel, Paris, under the
spreading trees, there are q few benches.
Every fine morning at eleven, and every ev-
at five o'clock, a neatly-dressed, mid
dle-aged, Well-to-do-looking woman takes q
seat on one Of these benches, and there eats
her breakfast and her dinner, which d garcon
from 8 restaurant brings her. This is 1.-THE
lady who lives on the benches For the
past seven years, during the fine season, she
ID daily OF her post. When her repast is fin
she takes out q pile Of blank paper and
9 collection of finely sharpened pencils, and
by the hour. The .tdane gst
les baacs, as the gossips Of the quarter
call her, continues her mysterious Compost
ion until the shades OF night drive her home.
APERsIAN APOLOGIZE.
Ne1aE fhn Sultan tirad and urap