The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1884-10-25

OUR LETTER FROM BRoADBRlM.

OUR LETTER FROM BROADBRIM
Continued Prevalence Of the Elopemen
Epidemic - A Dissertation on uI-As
sorted Marriages--Jay GouIl's Bouncel
in Troubte-Dr. Halls Sensible ChurcI
Regulation - Weddings and Politics a1
the Rage.
New YORK, Oct. II, 1884.
EDITOR CHIEF:
The papers are ablaze with excitemen
at the continuance Of the elopemen
epidemic, and while we are not morally
certain thet we can prove it contagious OF
the sporadic theory, 1t is nevertheless trut
that the man who has money and pretty
| daughters had better look out for them
for while it may be possible to take care o.
one of these treasures in the bank vault OF
in the strong box of the Safe Deposit, the
other treasure is an uncertain domestic fac
tor that hangs within the reach of every
butcher boy, grocery clerk, or coaebman
| and like the riches spoken Of in the good
book, it takes wings to itself and flies away
| It not only flies away, but the butcher, the
grocery clerk or the coaehman contrives to
| fly about the same time, and there lieth the
milk in the cocoanut.
It is we'll enough to look this thing
squarely in the face, and although Broad
! brim is not vain enough to suppose tha
anything he can say will prevent any
foolish girl from making ninny of her
SELF yet there are many services in this
world for which we neither expect nor
receive any reward, and this is one Of
them.
When the world was very young Love was
blind, and now that he has grown old in
addition the original calamity of his birth
he is deaf. No logic moves him, no reason
swerves him from his wayward fancies;
ruin might be right in front of him, but
being blind he does not see it. The most
logical reasons might be presented to turn
being deaf he does not hear it.
Strong minded females may say what
they please, but there is a very wide
diversity between menand women, and 1t
is nowhere seen in such glaring colors as
in the matter of marriage. An intellectual,
cultivated man may possibly marry and
love an ignorant uncultivated woman, one
who Notwithstanding her ignorance has
gentle and affectionate nature; one who
does her best to soothe him in his hours of
sorrow; who thinks of his comforts and
provides for them. Men are grateful for
these things, for small as they may appear
to the unthinkine, they are the weights
that turn the golden balance of life: DIR.
Johnson, the intellectual Colossus of his
age, though coarse brute in his ordinary
associations, found in Mrs. Thrale Tan
ignorant old dowdy) an angel OF light,
who was JOY and consolation to him
up to the day Ct her death. Rosseau
adored his house-keeper, and ignorant as
she was, he delighted in reading to her the
choicest productions of his genius, and it
is equally certain that he entertained a
most profound reverence for her opinions.
Henreich Helm, when he was eleetrifying
Germany with his writings, was the devoted
slave of a woman who could scarcely read
one of his manuscripts, and was not only
ignorant, but vulgar and ugly. Men may
do this, but doubt if the woman was ever
born who could long love man who was
Intellectually her inferior. Miss Morisini
is not the first young woman who ran away
with her fathers coachman and she will not
be the last, but have yet to see single
instance where the match was a happy one,
and where the woman did not repent her
hasty choice in sackcloth and ashes. Now
there is no very good reason why coach
man or stable boy may not be q very
good sort of person, but the atmosphere of
stable is not conducive to the highest
intellectual culture, and if it were, the
young gentlemen who amuse themselves
| currying the horses and performing the
usual chores required in first-class stable
| would soon find themselves in college
studying Latin and Greek. But the
graduates of the stable usually chew to-
| bacco; they smoke also and generally swear,
and contracting the habit of kicking the
| horses, are very apt in moments of excite
ment to try the experiment On their wives,
and right here is the point that materially
affects the romantic boarding school miss.
| Love in vine clad cottage with John and
! bread and cheese and kisses is paradise, or
| at least as near as one can reasonably hope
to get to it on this sublunary sphere, but
| when John comes home drunk, smelling of
| whiskey and onions, and on Maria James
| demonstrating with him gives her a black
| eye, paradise vanishes. Yet this is what
John will do every time; hence I say for
an educated young lady, whose life sur
roundings have been gentle and polite, John
is bad investment. Some where in the vici-
nifty of the kitchen John will find his affini-
ty. Susan has been in the habit of ruling
the house with rod of iron which was
fortunate enough to secure her services
she will stand no nonsense from any one
if John comes home drunk to her during
| the honeymoon or after, he wakes up next
morning with pair of of black eyes; his
head is all covered with plaster; he feels as
if he had been run over by train of cars
and then drawn through knot hole after
wards; he wonders what has happened, bu1
Susan walks about the house singing, 81
want to be angel" just as clipper as il
every day was Fourth of July or Thanks
giving. Now that's just the kind of ange
that John appreciates, and in fact just tht
kind of angel he needs; the chances ART
with such an angel as that to go through