Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-01-18

friendship, after while 70 Join hearts.
The delegate from the one cradle comes
up the east side OF the church with her
father. The delegate from the other
cradle comes up the the west aisle of the
church. The two long journeys end at
the snowdrift Of the bridal veil. The
two chains made out Of many years are
forged together by the goLlen link which
the groom pats upon the third finger of
the left hand. One on earth, may they
be one In heaven!
But there are 80 many exceptions to
the general rule of natural affinity, that
only those are safe who pray for heay-
emily hand TO lead them. Because they
depended on themselves ard not on God,
there are thousands of women every year
going 10 the slaughter. H. India women
leap on the funeral pyre q u dead hus-
band. We have worse spectacle than
that in America--women innumerable,
leaping on the funeral pJre Of living
husband.
Avoid all proposed alliances through
newspaper advertisements. Many women,
just for fun, have answered such adver-
tisements, and have been led on from
step 10 step to catastrophe infinite. All
NhR nun WIN mIiNt SUCH EMBELLISHMENTS
are villains and lepers-all, without a
single exception All All, DO you
answer them Just for fun? | viii tell
you safer and healthier fun. Thrust
your hand through the cage at me
nagerie, and stroke the back Of cobra
from the East Indies. Put your head in
the mouth of Nnmidau lion TO see II
he viii bite. Take glassful
of Paris green mixed with some
delightful hcnbane. These are safer and
healthier fun than answering newspaper
advertisements for wife.
My advice is: Marry d man who is q
fortune in himself Houses, lands and
large Inheritance are wen enough but the
wheel Of fortune turns so rapidly that
through some investment all these in
few years may be gone. There are some
things, however, that are perpetual for
tune-good manners, geniality of soul,
Kindness, intelligence, sympathy, courage,
perseverance, industry and whole-heart-
edness. Marry such one and you have
married fortune, whether he have an in
come of $4,000 a year or an income OF
5000. A bank Is secure according to its
capital stock and not to be judged by the
deposits for 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 resources to-day and
Withdraw them tomorrow. II man Is
worth nothing but money he is poor in
deed. II man have upright character he
is rich. Property may come and go, heis
Independent of the markets. Nothing can
buy him out, nothing can sell 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
III you find one without any faults, inca
pable of mistakes, never having guessed
wrongly, his patience never having been
immaculate in speech, in tenn
per, In habits, do not marry him. Why?
because you would enact swlndle. What
would you do with perfect man, who
are not perfect yourselfp And how dare
you hitch your imperfection fast on such
supernatural excellence? What a COM
panion you would make for an angel! In
other words there are no perfect men.
There never was but one perfect pair an
they slipped down the banks of
paradise together. We occasionally find
a man who says he never sins. We know
he lies when he says 1t. We have had
financial dealings with two or three per-
feet men, and they cheated us wofuly,
Do, not, therefore, look for an immacu-
late husband, for you will not find him.
But do not become cynical on this sub
ject. Society has great multitude OF
grand men, who know how to make home
happy. When they come to be husbands
they evince a nobility of nature and
self-sacrifcing spirit that surprise even
the wife. These are the men who cheer
fully sit in dark and dirty business offices,
ten feet by twelve, in summer time hard
at work, while the wives and daughters
are off Mt Saratoga, Mount Desert or the
White Sulphur. These are the men who
never having had much education them
selves, have their sons ut Yale and Har-
ward and Virginia university. These are
the men who work themselves to death
by flity years of age, and go out to Green
wood leaving large estate aud generous
life insurance provision for their families.
There are husbands and fathers here by
the hundreds who would die for their
households. II outlawry should ever be-
come dominant in our cties, they would
stand In their doorway, and with their one
arm would cleave down, one by one, fifty
invaders, face to face, loot TO foot, and
every stroke demolition This is what
makes an army in defense of q country
fight more desperately than an army OF
1t is not so much the abstract
sentiment Of n flag as it is wife and chill
dren and home, that turns enthusiasm
into fury. The world has such men by
the million and the homunculi that infest
all our communities must not hinder
women from approaching the glory Of
true manhood.
was reading of Q bridal reception.
The young man had brought home tho
choice OF his heart, in her elaborate
and exquisite apparel. As she stood
in the gay drawing-room, and amid the
gay group, the young mans eyes tilled
with tears of JOY az he thought that she
was his Years passed by, and they
stood at the same parlor on another festal
She wore the same dress, for
business had not opened as brightly to the
young husband as he expected, and he
had never been able TO purchase for her
another dress. Her face was not as
bright and smooth as IL had been years
before, aud care-worn look had made
It's signature on her countenance. AS the
husband looked at her he saw the differ