St. Landry democrat., 1886-02-20


Different ministers of religion have their
own peculiar forms Of marriage ceremony,
but if you have forgotten what you prom
Used at the altar of wedlock, you had bet
ter buy or borrow an Episcopal prayer
book, which contains the substance of all
intelligent marriage ceremonies when IL
says:
take thee to be my welded wife, to have
and to hold from this day forward, for bet
ter or for worse, for richer or for poorer, In
sickness and in health, to love and to cher
ish till death US do part, according to Gods
holy ordinance, and thereto I pledge thee
my troth.
Would it not be good idea to have that
printed in tract form and widely distrib
uted?
The fact is that many men are more kind
to everybody else's wives than to their
own wives. They will let the wife carry
heavy coal-scuttle upstairs, and will at
one bound clear the width Of parlor to
pick up some other lady's pocket handker-
chief. There is an evil which have seen
under the sun, and it is common among
men, namely, husbands in Irritation. The
attention they ought to put upon their own
smile on them coyly and askance and with
a manner that seems to say: 81 wish was
free from that old drudge at home. What
an improvement you would be on my pres
emit surroundings" And bouquets are
sent, and accidental meetings take place,
and late at night the man comes to his pro-
sale home whistling and hilarious, and
wonders that the wife is jealous. There
are thousands of men who, while not posi-
lively immoral, need radical correction of
their habits in this direction. It is mean
ness Unreasonable for a man by his be-
havior to seem to say to his wife: "Yeu
can't help yourself, and I will go where
please, and admire whom I please, and
defy your criticism"
Why did you not have that put in the
bond, Oh, domestic Shylock? Why did you
not have it understood before you were
pronounced husband and wife, that she
should have only part of the dividend OF
your affections, that when, as time rolled
on and the cares of life had erased some of
the bright lines from her face, and given
unwieldiness to her form, you would have
the reserved right to pay obesance to
more agile, and as you demanded the last
pound Of patience and endurance on
her part, you could, with the
emphasis of an Edwin Forrest or
Macready, have tapped the eccentric mar
riage document and have said: otis in
the bond !" If this modern Rebekah had
understood beforehand where she was
alighting, she would have ordered the
camel drivers to turn the caravan back
ward toward Padan- aram.
The most worthy thing for the thousands
Of married men is to go home and apollo
gize for past neglects, and brighten up
their old love. Take up, the family Bible
and read the record of the marriage day.
Open the drawer of relics in the box
inside the drawer containing the trink-
cts of your dead child. Take up the
pack Of yellow-cover letters that were
written before you became one. Rehearse
the scenes Of joy and sorrow in which you
have mingled. Put all these things as fuel
on the altar, and by coal of sacred fire
rekindle the eKtinguished light. 1t was a
blast from he'll that blew it out, and gale
from Heaven will fan it into blaze.
1t pleases me greatly to hear the
and worldly husband say
about his wife, with no idea that
it will get to her ears: .'There is the most
godly woman alive. Her goodness is per-
petual rebuke to my waywardness. Moth
ing on earth could ever induce her to do a
wrong thing. I hope the children will take
after her instead of after me. If there is
any Heaven at all, I am sure she will go
there"
Aye, my brother, do you not think it
would be wise and safe thing for you to
Join her on the road to heaven? |
You think you have a, happy home |
1ow, but what home you would |
nave if you both were religious. What a
new sacredness it would give to your mar
tai relation, and what new light it would |
throw on the forehead of your children.
Joseph H., the Emperor, was so kind
md so philanthropic that he excited the
love of most of his subjects.
he abolished serfdom, established tolera-
ion and lived in the happiness OF. his peo-
Die. One day while on his way TO Ostend
20 declare it free port, and while at the
lead of great procession, he saw wom-
IN at the door of her cottage Ii detection.
The Emperor dismounted and asked the
'ause of her grief She said that her hus-
'and had gone to Ostend to see the EN-
,eror and had declined to take her with =
linn, for, as he was an alien, he could not
Understand her loyal enthusiasm, and that
was the one great desire of her life to
ZEE the ruler for whose kindness and good
less and greatness she had an unspeak-
bile admiration; and her disappointment
n not being able to go and see him was
imply unbearable. The Emperor Joseph
ook from his pocket box decorated with
diamonds surrounding picture of himself
nd presented it to her, and when