Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-02-08

but few years, you are doing nothing.
You seem to have no realization Of the
fact that soon these children
will be grown up, or in their sepulchres,
and will be far removed from your in.
auence, and that the wife will soon end her
earthly mission, and that house will be oc.
cupied BY others, and you yourself will be
gone.
GENTLEMEN, FULFILL YOUR CONTRACTS.
Christian marriage is an sffectional bar
gain. In heather lands man wins his
wife by achievements. 10 some countries
wives are bought by the payment of so
many dollars, as 30 many cattle or sheep.
In one country the man gets on horse
and rides down where group of women
are standing. and seizes one of them by
the hair, and lifts her struggling and re-
sisting on his horse, and if her brothers
and friends do not overtake her before she
gets to the jungle, she is his lawful wife.
In another land the msscaline candidate
for marriage is beaten by the club Of the
one whom he would make his bride. If
he cries out under the pounding,
he is rejected. If he receives the
blows uncomplainingly, she is
his by right. Endurance and bravery and
skill decide the marriage in barbarous
lands, but Christian marriage is o volun-
tary bargain in which you promise pro-
lection, support, companionship and love
Business men have in their fre-proof
safes file of papers containing their con-
tracts, and sometimes they take them out
and read them over to see what the party
of the first part aud the party Of the Sec
ond part really bound themselves to do
Different ministers of religion have their
own peculiar forms oi marriage ceremony,
but if you have forgotten what you prom
ised at the altar of vedlock, you had better
buy or borrow an Episcopal Prayer Book,
which contains the substance OF all intelli.
gent marriage ceremonies, when it says:
II take thee 10 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 cherish till death
US do part, according to Gods holy orii-
nance, and thereto pledge thee my
ttoth" Would it not be good idea to
have that printed in tract form and wide
ly distributed
The fact is that many men are
MORE KIND TO EVERYBODY ELSE WIVES
than TO their own wives. They will let
the wife carry heavy coal scuttle up
stairs, and at one bound clear the width OF
a parlor to pick up some other ladys
pooket handkerchief. There is an evil
which have seen under the sun, aud it
is common among men, namely, husbands
in Irritation. The attention they ought TO
put on their own wives, they bestow upon
others. They smile on them coyly and
askance and with a manner that seem 10
say, IL wish. | was tree from that old
drudge at home. What an improve
ment you would be on my present
surroundings And bouquets are sent,
and accidental meetings take place, and
late at night the man comes TO his prosaic
home whistling and hilarious, and wonders
that the wife is jealous. There are thou
sands OF men who, while not positively i'm
moral, need radical correction OF their hab-
its in this direction. 1t Is mesnress im
measurable for q man by mis- behavior 10
aeem to say to his wife: You can't help
yourself, and | will 90 where please, and
defy your criticism.
WHY did you not have that put in the
bond, O domestic Shylock2 Why did you
not have it understood before you were
pronounced husband and wife, that she
should have only part OF the dividend oi
your affections, that when, as time rolled
on and the cares of lite had erased some
OF the bright lines from her face, and gwen
unwieldlness to her form, you would have
the reserved right to pay obeisance TO cheeks
more rubicund and figures hther ana
more agile, and as you demanded the
last round Of patience and endurance on
her part, you could, with the emphasis OF
an Edwin Forrest or a Macready, have
tanned the eccentric marriage document
and have said: "lt's in the eond II
this modeTn kebekah had understood be-
forehand where she was slighting, abe
would have ordered the camel drivers to
turn the caravan backward towards
Padau-aram. Filtration has &c origin
either in dishonesty OF licentiousness. The
married man who INDUCES in it Is either
a traud or rake However high up IN
aociety such a one may be, and however
sourbt afer, would not give three-cent
piece, though it had been three times clip
ped, for the virtue Of either the masculine
or feminine art.
I The most worthy thing Tor the thous'
ands OF married men 10 do isto
IN ,r,vP ISD APOLOGIZE
70, past neelects, and brighten up their old
love. Take up the family Bills and read
tshe record ai the marriage day. Opon the
drawer OF relics in the box inside the
drawer. containing the trinkets OF
your dead child. Take up the pack CT yel-
covered letters thai were written be-
,oye vor became one. Rehesrse the scene
OF ioy and sorrow in which you have min
gled. Put all these things a. fuel On the
altar, and BY G. coal Of sacred IRE rekin
dle the exti6glished light. 1t was blast
from hell that blew II out, and gale IRON
heaven will fan il into blaze.
Ye who have broken marriage VOWS,
sneak out! take your wife into your plans
your successes, your defeats, Jour Anbl'
.. Iions Tel! Ter everything. Walk arm
in arm with her into places OF Amusement,
and on the piazza Of summer watering:
places, and up the rugged way o: lie, and
; down through dsrk ravire, and when one
embles on the way, let the other De REIN
forcement In no case pass yourteIt OF al
: a single man prscticipg ssllantsies. po
, not, otter you are City year' OF age, in Ia
: dies society try to look young-msn'sh.
INTERFERE NOT WITH YOUR WIFEs RELIC
IoUs NATURE.
q Pat her not 10 that awful dilemma in Whiet
I so many Christian wlgel .se paced b
2 ,hoir husbands, who ssk them TO go otC
e places or 90 things which compel them e
, decide between loyalty to God aud loyait!
a TO the husband. Rather than asz her 10
e comp1omise her Christian character, en-
q courage her 10 be more and more 2 Cars
: tiau. for there will 20 dmes 40 your hf
/ vher YOU viii want tie help Of ali he
It Christian resources, and certainly, whel
g vou remember how much influence yo1
2 mother had over you, you DO Dot vsHt th
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