Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1884-03-26
turbed even though dyspepsia grumble at the

turbed even though dyspepsia grumbe at the
pudding. She views everything from the I'M
married standpoint, and trities are to her
what they would have been to the parties
concerned when they were new-tledged lovers
and had not attained the deep abiding faith
which comes of long loving.
Says Gail: 1.-THE unmarried woman is
dangerous because she has no Blue Boards
skeleton in her own closet to make her hide
his from sheer sympathy" Here again she
utters more truth than she wishes. She has
not the sympathy, that clearest of all visions,
the sympathy of experience, which would
show the Blue Boards skeleton to be mere
sheet-around-a- broomstick ghost, easily laid.
OF course Carlyle was often selfish ana
even Surly. Genius is wondrous apt in that
line JEANNE Welsh had genius too; less
surly truly, but not less keen and caustic
If ever man could blast another utterly
with single word, it was Carlyle, and prob
ably he sometimes said scattering things to
"his weak little darling" as she could and did
to "her beloved Good" as she called him; but
that he was an unloving, brutal husband
is abundantly disproved by the very letters
from which Miss Dodge draws her conclu-
SionS.
We need read nothing which Carlyle HIM
SSAASNN>AAS
messages to her when away, of his tender
anxiety after the death of Mrs. Welsh that
she should miss no little attention to which
she was accustomed from her mother, of her
own pride and gratitude that her husband
had won such place in the hearts of men;
and, in writing to him, she pours out her
most extravaganza tancies, her widest en-
thusiasmS, and her most girlish exploits with
a freedom and confidence which show that
she feared no such cold annihilation as Gail
would have us expect.
What if he did growl savagely? Some OF
us prefer strong mastitfs to poodle dogs, or
even to the sleek spaniels which Miss Dodge's
correct taste tells her are better suited in
drawing-rooms Some women admire strength
and roughnesS more than mediocrlty and
gentleness. They stand up bravely and
Loyalty against blasts that would shock and
shatter feebler natures, and there Is nothing
of the starts-at- the-distant-footstep, reels
underline brutal-blow, and woman-hke-loves-
on" nonsense about it either, but simply this:
that saints in broadcloth and starched linen,
not being yet invented, they prefer that par
ticular kind of unsaintlness as better suited
| to their own unsaintliness
They say, as the wise old lady said: THE
first time Caleb did something that | knew
was wrong, was real glad of it. had been
afraid he was so perfect he couldn't love such
a faulty creature as was"
The keen intellect, the critical yet emo
tional nature of Mrs. Carlyle must have
! CARLYLE to cope with. And if she sometimes
complained of him. woman more subject
than Miss Dodge to the morbid sensitiveness
of nervous ailments like hers would say in
reading the letters:
Here, and here she was i'll,
| Here she was herself again.
They had their trials as what couple has
NOT. with the world and with each other. But
| in life, through fortune and misfortune,
through joy and grief, they loved each other
devoutly and sincerely.