Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-08-28
BETWEEN OURSELVES.

ianized human family more than any
other.
Affection is sort of hallucination. In
some nations it lasts life time, but in a
majority of instances it is short-lived, and
is superseded by duty in the conscientious
heart which is impelled to make the
amende for vanished sentiment.
Shakespeare assures us that remorse has
oftentimes the same instincts as affection.
So has duty, and many never know the
difference;-nevers know when the ex-
Quisite impulse of attraction is merged in
the thoughtful performance of duty. It
may be arise from human respect, be-
cause society scorns the.maniwho doesn't
provide for his family-even to their fac
titious wants-but oftener tits the down.
right heroism of making the best of it. >"
In any event the outcome is merit
orious, and the result edifying in no di-
minution of comfort, albeit affection is
not the active cause.
But then the same old combinations
are forever going on, to bring about the
same occasions for the exercise of duty,
when affection is thing of the past.
Singing disagreements necessitate the
limited divorce of seasonable absence at
watering places and fashionable resorts,
while supreme apathy, wherein, as Ten
nyson says
| 'The individual withers and the world is
more and more"-
causes the marine divorce limited at last
Sunday. Months and years of an Euro
pean tour are safe remedy for constitu-
tional uncongeniality.
Back of all this many earnest theorists
will tell you that the present generation
has not been instructed in the same old
fashioned way, and that until there is a
return to those wholesome, venerable
methods, no abiding good can come to
the existing order Of society. The infu-
ence of women being considered para
mount, the education of girls
agitates the theoretic mind, and there
is no end to opinion, and its
givers, from Charles Francis Adams
down. He draws the line at Latin, and
suggests the exclusion of girls from the
Latin schools in Boston, thereby melting
the malcontents to provide one for them
selves.
The materialists of education, the
Gradgrinds, who shape everything by
hard facts, debar girls from any resource
which does not keep in view, as the excel
sior of their career, the practical art of
housekeeping.
Housekeeping, that's the cue and then
they may hope to ''marry well'' and set
tie down, in too many instances to suckle
fools and chronicle small beer Fortu-
nately the ingenuity of human enterprise
has planned and adopted shirts, which
are managed with the minimum of but
tons, mostly adjustable, and thus there
is less heard and written about that awful
impending duty and mission than there
used to be some years ago. To darn
stockings and make bread are still the
paragon virtues of the ideal helpmeet,
healing art for the one, and possibly a
change in the staff of life for
the other. It is surprising what lot of
didactic domestic ssgacity is turned out
on paper, for the edifcation of the
reading world-chiefy relating to this
housewifely sphere of woman, so repre-
hensibly deserted and inept in these
times, because forsooth girls are more
given to educating their minds than their
hands.
On the other side, the prizes offered for
accomplished housekeeping are generally
illusory, and always scarce in the matri-
monial sphere Outside of this tempting
pale tits mere mercenary accomplish
ment which has marketable price, but
really it isn't so often of the highest mar
riageable figure that it pays to invest eff
fort in so uncertain return.
When it is question of marriage
Greybeard singles out the youngest and
least capable housekeeper he can 9,
just as David Copperfeld did. and mar
ries her. If the suficing Agneses ever
have any chance, tits when the Doras are
safely sodded down, and the husband is
disenchanted and dyspeptic.
While most all the solid and solvent
| Greybeards marry the sweet, dancing and
accomplished girls, what is left for the
demure, economical trained housekeepers,
likewise young, and waiting in the mar
ket place for the eligible prizes and we'll
appointed homes?
Are they expecting the promising
young men with only 'limited means?"
They must take it out in expectation
then, for the knowing youth are casting
about for the richest and most infuen-
tial fathers law, and the ruling ambi-
ton is to board at some expensive hotel
which includes HOUSEKEEPING and all that
sort of thing in the vague background.
There is one memorable case on record
where a careful, prudent, elderly house
| wife or tentwife was chosen first and her
memory cherished most affectionately
even when the wiles of her young and
beautiful successor sought to supplant
the thought of her.