Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-05-13
GOSSIP FOR GIRLS,
with Some Readable Paragraphs
for Their Married Sisters.
WHERE MARRIAGE IS A CRIME.
Ire 8.igh;ed loys Of lanes Buchanan
A Rather Doubtful S+0ry-Wedding
0yesses-loVe's Way-hay
and January Gossip.
WHERE MARRIAGE ISA CRIME.

Ky George VI. Hepworth, in a news
;,sr,er article descriptive 0f New York
fashionable" society. says OF a certain
Iyt.p class: They have money, but that
- up!Y another way of saying that they
rs.. afford Ia do their worst and procure
rertial means of cOnCealment. Their
n.,y.isr'tir< are chiefly developed in
S,rrrt amt after dark. They dare not
i,N the half they know about their
,,rirhhur>. nor listen To half what they
know Al"ut them. Their gospel il the
,,Nepel Of o. per cent, and beyond q large
tuC1u.o and an unchecked passion lies
the terra .ncOgnitia of morality, which
they have no desire to explore. Their
time j. spent in round of pleasures,
suggested 10y painful ennui. Intrigues
IL the most compromising character are
uOL infreqUCnt, and the air is at times
made foul with scandals which point to
lie hopeless wreck of domestic happi-
utrS. Now the wonder of this whole
mStter il that pure young girls can be
ft>Cinated by mani Use the mis-
homer in the way of pOliteueSs-whO
nuSht never To throw his shadow on
.Geir path. y marriageable girl who
jrcl- herself 10 be in the market is not
IA the slightest degree shocked because
Ter lover dare not tell where he goes
when NE leaves her; on the other hand,
Ills impurity seems To be au added
Taught to set any high value on virtue,
neither does she regard il - indiSpenS;l-
AZ. IN q husband. She excuses the in
,NUllsablc and ignores the prime COndi-
Ions Of happiness. 80 he has money,
l.. -. t,tn..zNfAF, - Ef
-, perhaps, because il she were at all
r,riOus she would never marry. Old
ualdiSm is the purgatOry of social life
aud ~, rather than live in pUrgatOry,
shc moves into palatial residence in
tie namplssS region beyond. Who does
not know that in the set to which she
belongs simple honor aud fidelity are
regarded 81 "Slow," and that the appe-
tie fol- excitement is 80 guickened by
the condiments of vice that excitement
l., tsstelC>s and insipid unless il is highly
-yasOned with immortality. Nay, the
whole community, for that matter, is
wa,lowing in the pit. In dramatic rep
-C-eOtations, for example, Shakespeare
= adOred with a sham alteration, but
never listened to with even tOlerable
patience. In the rivalry between Shaks.
pvare aud a Semi-lewd play, the bard Of
AVON il voted out of the house. The
sensational drama in which the heroine
tUtterS 10 the first act on the dizzy edge
III y vicious precipice and in the last act
tails iutO the tathOmlesS depths of do
mcstiC intidelity, rOuSeS us to the high
c=t pitch of enthusiasm. Nothing pays
- we'll i'm play aS disguised indeCency
and il the disguise be very thin, we dc
not allow our scruples TO mar our en-
jOyRant. Good reading, also, has sui
tered characteristic ''Soa change" In
order TO Oe really interesting, q move
must have a sulphurous plot, one tine
heroine or hero of which has a reputa'
ton which ought To bring blush to the
cheek Of the reader but which geuer
ally fails in the accomplishment OF thai
end. We use the word French" To eX
pres, not the nationality of a book, hu
it, CharactGr-lhat j., its had character.
James ter IlOwCllS may lie found on TIT
sitting room table, sham representatives
Ofthe style of writing We must enjoy
but lola, always KEPT out Of sight, has
thumb marks which show that il is the
Source OF oft repeated pleasures. The
mUet salah,y books are made up of the
DiuuanCy of broken VOWS and the de
lights of life Of shame. This MOlOCh
worship, which demands that mammaS
-hsil turn their daughters into the open
,ieyy and consuming arms OF AN unholy
marriSge, is far more prevalent than We
lhink. Young girls are drilled into the
belief that an elegant mansion on a cor
rrr lot in a matrimonial inferno is pre-
tcrSite tO an honest SnuggeCy on \ side
street i'm the matrimonial heaven
Money must be had at any cost, and
-nCe the only merchautable article IL
her post sion il herself, the young girl
gets the largest price the market offers,
and runs the risk with the man who
DAYS il. use the word risk, but that
plies chance Of happiness, and the
chance j. 50 sInall that I may a. we'll be
little more exact, and say that she
g'A, the largest price, endures the new
relationship for awhile, and then either
-ey4.s her own pleasure In her own way
pr applies To divorce court for relief
\ blasted life with fashionable society
or sliwony as n last resort, is the history
OF scores.
VINO WAS THE LADY?