Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-01-29

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ness John wesley, one Of the best men
ever lived, united to one of the most
and %scandalous of women. who
sat in City Road Chapel making mouths
at him while he preached. Witness tba
once connubial wretchedness of John Rus.
kin, the great art essayist, and frederick
w. Robertson, the great preacher. wit.
ness a thousand bells on earth kindled nv
unworthy wives, termagants tibet scold
like a March northeastern; female spend.
thrifts, that put their husbands into fr.u.
dulent schemes to get money enough to
meet the lavishment of domestic expendi.
ture; opium-eating women-about 400 600
of them in the United States-who will
have the drug though it should cause the
eternal damnation of the whole household:
heartless and overbearing, and namby-
PANTY and unreasonable women. vet
married: married perhaps to good men.
These are the women who build the low
.club-houses, where the husbands and sons
go because they can't stand it at home. On
this sea of matrimony, where so many have
wrecked, am l not right in advising Divine
pilotage?
Especially is devout supplication needed
because of the fact that society is so full of
artiicialities that men are deceived az to
whom they are marrying, and no one but
the Lord knows. After the dressmaker,
and the milliner, n the jeweler, and the
~hair-adjuster, and the dancing-master, and
the cosmetic art, have completed their
work, how is an unsophisticated man to
decipher the physiological hieroglyphics,
and to make accurate Judgment of who it
is to whom he offers hand and heart. That
is what makes so many recreant husbands.
They make an honorable marriage con-
tract, but the goods delivered are so differ.
emit from the sample by which they bar
gained. They were simply swindled, and
they backed out. They mistook Jezebel
for Longfellow's Evangeline, and Lucretia
Borgia for Martha Washington.
Aye; as the Indian chief boasts of the
scalps he has taken, SO there are in society
to-day many coquettes who boast of the
masculine hearts they have captured.
And these women, though they may
live amid richest upholstery, are not
so honorable as the cyprians of
the street, for these advertise their in
fanny, while the former profess heaven
while they mean hell. There is so much
counterfeit ~womanhood abroad it is no
wonder that some can not tell the genuine
coin from the base. Do you not realize
you need Divine guidance when l remind
you that mistake is possible in this inn
portant affair, and, if made, is ire
vocable.
was made for you, as certainly as Eve was
made for Adam. Ali sorts of mistakes &C.
cur because Eve was made out of a rib
from Adams side, Nobody knows which
of his ribs was taken for the nucleus. If
you depend entirely upon yourself in the
selection of a wife. there are twenty-three
possibilities to one that you will select the
wrong rib. By the fate of Ahab, whose
wife induced him to steal: by the fate of
Macbeth, whose wife pushed him into
massacre; by the fate of James Ferguson,
the philosopher, whose wife entered the
room while he was lecturfng and willfully
upset his astronomical apparatus, SO that
he turned to the audience and said: "La-
dies and gentlemen, 1 AVE the misfortune
to be married to this woman;" by the
fate of Bulwer, the novelist, whose wife's
temper was so incompatible that he fur
UlSlCu HUI u OcluutLul uOuSS ueuI AOAuOIl
and withdrew from her company, leaving
her with the one dozen dogs whom she en-
tertained as pets; by the fate of John Mil
ton, who married a termagant after he was
blind, and when some one called her a rose
the poet said: 81 am no judge of colors
but it may be so, for I feel the thorns
daily" by the fate of an Englishman
whose wife was so determined to dance
on his grave that he was buriedi in the sea
by the fate of a village minister whom
I knew, whose wife threw q
cup of hot tea across the table because they
differed in sentiment-by all these scenes
OF disquietude and domestic calamity, we
implore you to be cautious n prayerfu
before you enter upon the connubial state
which decides whether a man shall have
two heavens or two bells, a heaven here
and a heaven forever, or a hell now and
hell hereafter.
By the bliss of Pliny, whose wife, when
her husband was pleading in court, hac
messengers coming and going to inform
her what impression he was making; by
the Joy of G%rotius, whose wife delivered
him from prison under the pretense of hav'
ing books carried out lest they be injuriou'
to his health, she sending out her husband
unobserved in one of the bookcases; by th'
good fortune of Roland, in Louis time
whose wife translated and composed TO-
her husband, while Secretary Of the Int
rior-talented, heroic, wonderful Nine. Ro
land; by the happiness of many a ma
who has made intelligent choice of one ca
pable of being prime counselor and com
panion in brightness and in g%rief-pray t.
Almighty God, morning, noon and night
that at the right time and in the right way
he will send you a good, honest, loving
sympathetic wife; or if she is not sent tt
YOU, that you may be sent to her.
If you have this prayful spirit you vii
surely avoid all female s%coffers at tn
Christian religion; aud there are quite
number of them in all communities
1t must be told that, though tn
only influence that keeps woman
from being estimated and treatet
as a slave - aye, as brut'
and q beast of BURDENS Christianity
since where it is not dominant she is 81
treated. vet there are women who will So