Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-04-21


the pre- emi6eDt idiocy Of making marriage
lawful at twelve and fourteen years Of age.
Let Congress, through committee made
| up not Of single gentlemen but of men of
families, who have their households with
them in Washington, after the requisite
change In the Constitution, prepare one
good, common sense, stringent law on the
subject Of marriage and divorce which will
cover everything from Sandy Hook to
Golden Horn. Then the brokerage in mar
risge will cease and the divorce lawyers
win 60 into respectable practice, and those
who are planning how they can escape
from the marital oath will 60 to work
planning how they may adjust themselves
to the more OF less unfayorable circum-
stances.
Marrying Men 60 Reform Them.
Rigidlty of the divorce law will keep
hundreds Of women from the failure of at
tempting to refrom men by marrying
them. She knew he drank, although he
tried to hide it by che wing cloves. Parents
and friends warned her. No! She will at
tempt his reform by marriage, and II she
fail the law will emancipate her; for hab'
itual drunkenness is aQause OF divorce IN
Indiana, Connecticut, Florida, Arkansas,
California and Kentucky, and almost all
altar of sacrifice.S Show me where the poy.
erty struck streets OF any city are and
will show you whole lines of houses where
all the women married men to reform
them. The reformatory attempt may be
successful in one case ont of ten thousand,
but have never seen one successful eX
pertinent. Rigidity Of divorce law will
lead rsmRn 10 say: ."If am aifianeed
to thsRRn it is probably forever, and If
= a IL. l1.-. aYnh
am the prize to be won he will not give up
his cups, after he has won his prize he will
surely not give them up. No, sir; you are
married to your club room and married to
your evil habits, and you are bigamist
already, Go"
Hasty and Foolish Marriages.
Rigidity of divorce law will put an
estoppel on hasty and inconsiderate mar
riages. Under the impression that for
frivolous cause one can be released by the
divorce law here or elsewhere, the solemn
relation is entered into without reflection
or inquiry. Romance and impulse have
too much sway. The ground for the COM
pact is that she likes his looks and he ad
mires the graceful way she passes around
the ice cream at picnic. Men incapable
of paying their own board bill take the
nbuu NJ WIN oii my
worldly gooGs / thee endow." Women who
could not make good loaf OF bread TO save
their lives promise to cherish and obey"
A Christian wall marry an atheist, and that
il always coDjoined wretchedness. Hearing
about love in a cottage, some one brought
up in ease goes down to starvation in
novel. Plenty Of runaway matches and
p}opements, nine hundred and ninety
nipe ont of a thousand of which
are death and hell Ministers OF
the gospel in these regions having no de-
fente as in other regions by public banns
or by marriage license signed by State
officials, are left TO blunder by marrying
people that ought never to be married be
cause they are too young or already under
solemn domestic contract. By the wreck
of l0. 600 family altars by the holocaust OF
10000 sacrificed men and women, by the
memory of despoiled hoMesteads, by the
hearthstone Of the family which is the
cornerstone of the State, and in the pane
of that GOD who has set up the family in.
stitution and made the breaking OF the
martial oath the most appalling Of all per
juries, ] implore the Congress OF the
United States first for a change in the
National Constitution and then for an all.
comprehensive, Just and stringent law OF
marriage and divorce.
Advice 90 Single People.
And let me say to the hundreds OF Young
people here assembled, before you join
heart and hand in solemn pledge, use all
caution, make all outsidei inquiry as to hab-
its, explore the disposition, question as TO
the ancestry, scrutinize the tastes and find
out the ambitions. Don't take the heroes
and the heroines of cheap novels for your
model. Don't entrust your time and eter-
in hl nj a
reputation of being little loose, or
women who dresses fast. Remember that
good looks are a gift from God, but that
.:S wrinkles may spoil them nj, ap erup;
tive dlseaH~ 5aface them. Lord byrons
beauty was only eq lied by his dePrayity.
A Absolom's hair was not moIo srlendid than
his behavior was despicable. Hear 1t.
Hear itl The foundation Of happy mar.
riage has been and always will be good
character. Ask fathers and mothers coun
sci in this the most important step oil your
life. They are more interested in your
welfare than any being on earth, have al.
ready made more sacrifices for you ana
will do more for your happiness Above
all, ask God.
To the Happily Mated.
Let lie say to those who are happily
mated: Avoid first quarrels. Have no un-
explained correspondence with former ad
mirers. Don't cultivate suspicious. Don't
in moment OF temper rush out and tell
YOUR neghbors about your wrongs. Don't
let the CAD. abouts OF society unload In your
house their baggage of CAB and tittle.tattle.
Don't stand too much on your rights.
I.e.r m how to apologize. Don't be too stub
born or 100 proud, or too deviiish to make
up" Almost all the great matrimonial
disasters started with little infelicities. The
whole pile of ten railroad cars, teleScoped
and smas he'd at the foo, of an embsnkment
A hundred feet down, came to that oatas'
tropl by getting only two inches OIL the
track. The most scandalOus and wide re:
sounding divorce cases have grown out OF
little misunderstanding that were slloWed
to 60 on till home and respsctability, and
religion and immortal soul went down in
the crash.
And, fellow citizens as well as fellow
Christmas, let us ali have q divine rage.
srsinst srvthiug that would despoil the
marriage state. Blessed institution! In
stead OF two arms 20 tight the battle OF lie
-four, Iustead of two eyes to see the
rugged path-foW. Instead OF two shout
deTs to lift the burders-fonr! Twice the
energy. Twice the courage. Twice the
holy ambition. TEIce the Prooaolhty OF
worldly success Twice the prospect OF
heaven, Into that marriage bower God
fetches two souls Room outside for al
chickering's, and all controversies and all
contention. Room inside only for one
guest, and that the Angel of Love. May
that angel guard the floral door OF this
Edenic bower and with keen blade cut
down at the rescued door-sill its worst ca
emy-easy divorce. For every "Iara1iSe
Lost" may there be PARADISE Reg iined,
and when we leave our homes on earth may
there be for us brighter home in heaven
at the windows of which there are familiar
faces at this moment watching and waiting
TO see our arrival, and wondering Why 30
long we tarry.
Buying MOllIe Pitcher's Picture.
TRENTON, n. J., April 20.-Aollie Pitch
er's performance on the flaming day in