Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1881-05-31


who lost their morals and their fortune
and their souls by just the opposit
course. When a man likes any plac
more than his home, look out for brcal,
, ers, How can you tell whether he like
his home better than other places? b
: this rule-a man stays the most wher
he likes it the best. One man out of
hundred has will so strong and hi
mortality so confirmed that he can Spen,
every night away from home for fort,
years and keep pure aud honest and so
Der, But the 80 out of the 100 by sucl
abscnteeism from home and depleted il
moral strength and the years are pai
of stairs to let them down to immortali
ty and death. ASK the good, honest
christian women of Brooklyn, what the,
think of the institutions which take the
husband and father and son away nigh
after night and for months and for years
There are club houses no doubt verl
good, and club houses no doubt very pol
luted. speak of neither the frst-ratt
nor the worst, but Of the average clul
house, when | say it is the worst foe OF
Christian life in New York and Brook.
lyn.
But who built most Of the club house,
of our great cities? | answer; in many
cases the women. A woman complain,
that the same attentions are not paid hen
now, since the marriage day, that were
paid her while yet the man was Il sup
plicating candidate for her preferences
Perhaps the retort might be made that
you do not take as much pains to make
Yourself attractive now as you did then.
That wife makes an awful and eternal
mistake who, after marriage, resigns
tastefulness of attire and all those little
arts which are indescribable, but which
help to make up womanly attractive
ness. When You greet him at nightfall
| on his return from store or banking
house or office, are you as careful 10
meet his admiration as during the first
week Of your acquaintance, The ample
fact Is that many women make their
charms net for one haul and then
throw the net away. You played the
piano like rhalberg or Gottschalk before
marriage and now you cannot play at
all. If you live sixty years together
you ought never TO cease TO be the bride
adorned for your husband. But perhaps
you spend the evening frctting about
the servants or dccrying the fact that
you have it worse than your neighhOrs,
or picking Mt his faults, putting him into
Il sort Of infant class over which You are
the supervisor, instead of making the
house a small heaven for his pcrturbed
spirit. ! believe that unwise and fret
fitl I,l A
the club houses. II women would read
newspapers and books, though but ten
minutes, and become intelligent enough
to hold stout political argument, as be-
tween Hancock and Garfield, and be
awake to all the stirring questions Of the
day, they would make their homes Il
club house to- which outsiders would
flock. One intelligent woman has more
nltractivencss than twenty intelligent
men. The law suit has begun. The
attorneys on both sides are ready. The
witnesses are in the court room. The
next case on the calendar is club house
versus the domestic circle.
EASY DIVORCE.
People get reckless about entering this
relation because they think that, If at
any time they desire the knot united,
the law will unite It. France declared
by law that people might unmarry as
they please. In Paris in one year 90
600 divorces took place, and IN one year
$4,000 children were sent to the found
ing hospitals. When the law lets down
the bars, all the cattle Of moral beastli-
ness break into the garden Of home. I'm
the prosperous days Of Rome, there was
only one divorce recorded In 500 years.
She changed her laws, and then the del
uge. Divorce is too easy IN this country.
The town of Lacrosse, Wisconsin, had
scyenty-C0ur cases of divorce suit In one
year. Philadelphia had 2S2 suits for di-
vorce in one year. Divorce cases in
New York have increased five per cent.
10 get rid Of your obligation you have
only to absent yourself II short time In
Illinois or Indiana. II marriage be Il
civil contract merely, then all this IL
right and You may part with conIugal
companion as you do with store, or 4
farm, or horse. If IL be II divine un-
ion, then let those legislators or Judges
of courts who have TO do with these
matters beware that on no grounds, cN-
cept 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 n
divine contract from which their names
will not be erased except on the marble
slab of the scpulcrc, more dclibcrNlion
and common sense and prayer will bc
exercised before this stupendous step Is
taken. Instead Of being lassocd with n
curl, or risltiHg their hearts In phllo-
pena, or marrying just for fun, they will
realize that between cradle and grave
there Is no place 40 tremendous as the
marriage altar. And while before II the
pair are joining hands I'm betrothal,
standing between them all unseen *
either the white winged angel of bless
ing or the horned and hoolcd and fired
mostril of despair.
Again, count corrupt literature ~
the foe OF the marriage relation--the
slushy books and pamphlets that tell
how impossible men were married to
impossible women and got into impossi-
bic difficulties with impossible Conse-
quenccs. The fact Is that some Of our
young married people, through such
literature get 80 filled with sentimental
and false ldeus about this plain, serious
aud old-fashloncd institution ofmarrlaIc, |
that they are untitled for the humble |
duties of every day life. Better, when
YOU 20 home to-day, gather up all the
French and internal stun aud hing It IN
to the Kitchen CRATE, otherwise II will !
corrupt you and your children after you.
Now want TO make you enemies Of cy-
crythlng that antagonlacs the marriage |
relation. The most Of you born Of hon
ornble parcntagc, | want TO swear you |
by the cradle IN which you were rocked |
and the family altar ut which In child
hood YOU knclt aud the grave Of your
Chrstlan tnihcr and mother, IL thcy Have |
laid down beside cnch other IN the last
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