The Brookhaven leader., 1886-02-04

| are some things, however, that are per-
petua fortune-good manners, geniality
OF soul, kindness, intelligence, sympathy,
courage, perseverance, industry and whole.
| heartedness. Marry such a one and you
have married fortune, whether he have
an income now of $4,000 a year or an
income OF $50. A bank is secure accord
/ ing TO its capital stock, aud not to be
| judged by the depo its for a day or
week. a man is rich according to his
sterling qualities, and not according to the
vacillation OF circumstances, which may
| leave with him large amount of re-
| Sources to-day, and withdraw them to-
morrow. II man is worth nothing but
| money he is poor indeed. IL man have
| upright character he is rich. Property
may come aud go; he is Independent If
the markets. Nothing can buy him out.
| He may have more money one year than
| another, but his better fortunes never
vacillate.
! Yet, do not expect to find a perfect man.
| If you find one without any faults, in
| capable of mistakes, never hsr!n.
I guessed wrongly, his patience never
having been disturbed, immac v'ntc
/ in speech, in temper, in habits, do
not marry him. Why; Because you
| would enact svindle. What would you
! do with perfect man who are not perfect
| yourself: And how dare YOU hitch your
| imperfection fast on such supernatural OK
| ceilrnce? What a companion you would
make for an angel, In other words there
are no perfect men. There never was hut
| one perfect pair, and they slipped down
/ the banks of Paradise together. We occa-
| sionally inl man who says le never
| sins. We know he lies when he says it
| We have had financial dealings with two
! or three perfect men. and they cheated Us
wofully. Do not, therefore, look for an
/ immaculate husband, for you will not find
him.
But do not become cynical on this sub
ject. Society has d great multitude If
grand men. who know how to make home
I happy. When they rpGS 70 be husban Is
they evince nobility of nature AMI
q selr-sacrifcing spirit that surpri -
even the wife. These are tn
men who cheerfully sit in dark and dry
business Offices, ten feet by twelve, in sum
lnar time. hard at work, while the wiv's
and daughters are of at Saratoga, Mouat
Desert, or at the White Sulphur. These
az. the men VINO, never having had mn il
education Themselves. have their sons al
YAH and Harvard and Virginia Uniyer.
sity. Th.se are tn men who work then
selves to death by hfty years Of age, and
20 out to Greenwood. leaving large estate
and generous life i'll 'urancc provision for
tGcir families. There are husbands aui
fathers here by the hundreds VINO would
die for their households. II odtle WY
should ever become dominant in Our cites
they would stand in their doorway, aud
with their one arm would Clcave down. on
by one, their invaders, face to face, foot to
foot, and every stroke demolition. THIS
is " hat make; an army in defense OF Il
country light more desperately than
an army of conquest. 1t 10 not 80 much
thu abstract So ttiman. OF ia, as it is tbs
vile AMI children AT hone that turns en-
thuSiusm INTO a fury. The world has sucn
men by tbs million. AMI the homln"uli
that inf as all 0ur communities mus no.
hinder women from approaching the glory
of true manhood.
was reading CT n bridal reception. The
young man had brought homo tina choi p
of his heart, in her elaborate ana oxquisitt
apparel. As she stood in the ga DRAWN
room and amid TIL gay group, ,ha young
mans eyes filled with tears of 10Y as h.
thought that she was his Years passed.
by, and they stood at the same parlor Oh
another festal oc.asion. She woro Ia
same dress, for business had not ~ eHed
brightly to the yoang husband as he haH
expected, and he had never been able TO
purchase for her another dress. Her fac
was not as bri ght and smooth as it had been
years before, aud carswOrn ioo! bad male
its signature on her cOlntenance. A.
the husband looked at her he saw the die
erence between this occasion and the for
mcr, and he went over where she lat and
said: "You remember the time when
were here before. You have the sam.
dress on. Circumstances have so,uexhai
changed, but yol look to me far NOR
beautiful than you did then" There is
sl"h u thing as c0njuZal fidelity, AM
many Vi you know it in your own homes
Dul. after all the Twice we may Civ
you, we come back to the golden pillG
from which we started, the treW ondous
truth that no one but God can gu de YOU
IL safety about this matter, that may Ge
eide your happiness for two worl Is, th
and the next. So, my sister, | ut you
case where Naomi put that of Ruth an
Orpah when she said: Tho Lor gra.
that We may find rest, each of you III tn
/ house Of her husband"
imagine the hour for which you pledg
ed your troth has arrived. There is muc
merrymaEing among your young Friends
but there is an undertone OF sadness In d
! the house. Your choice may hare beeI
! the gladdest and the best, and the joy
| the ole round OF relatives, but when
! young eaglet is about to leave the cid pes
and is preparing to put out into sNnshin
! and storm for itself, it feels its win
| tremblo somewhat. She has a good or
! before leaving home, and at the maria
! father aud mother always cry, or feel Ii
! it. If you think it is easy to give Vi
! daughter in marriage, though it pc wi.
/ brightest prospects, you will think diff
| emily when the day comes. TO have
! along watched her from infancy o gin
| hood, and from girlhood to womanhoo
| studious of her welfare, hor slightest Il!
ness an anxiety, and her presence in yIn
home an ever increasing joy, al
then have her go away TO some ctn
| home-aye, all the rcdoleuce OF oran
| blossoms, and all TIE chime of IN lrril
bells, and all the rolling of weddin. MAJ
| in full diapason, and all the hilarious cnn
| CALCULATIONS of your friends, can not max
you forget that you are suffering a loss If
reparable. But you know it is all Hgh
and you have remembrance of az en-
barkation just like IL twenty five or thirs
| years ago, i'll which you were one of IL
| parties, and, Suppressng as far as possihl