The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1886-04-07
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Il shall this morning take it for
granted that your marriage is all right,
and | shall 60 on and advise you how to
treat your wife. NV ambition is to tell
you more plain truth than You have ever
heard in any throe-qUarters of an hour
in all your life. And first of all | charge
you to realize the responsibility of hav
ing taken her away from her low
inc parents and from the homestead
in which she was sheltered. 1t is amaZ-
ing that any of Us have the sublimity of
impudence TO ask such transfer to a
home that is not yet constructed. How
ought YOU to treat her? My brother,
you ought to treat her well; YOU ought
to treat her better than any one in the
universe. excepting God Almighty. Her
name should sound sweeter than music
to you and her eyes, though swollen
with watching child sick with scarlet
fever, should be brighter to you than
May morning. She has first mortgage
on you, body, mind and soul Now.
why don't you pay your debts? You
believe in the force of a contract. If
YOU promised kindness and faithfulness
and have not fulfilled these promises.
then you have fraudulently induced one
imprisoned for obtaining goods under
false pretenses and should be mulcted
for large amount of damages. o. full
fill your contractsl Men of business
have lots of contracts and sometimes
they take them and read what the party
of the first part and the party Of the sec
ond part agreed to do. Have you for
gotten your contract? Then YOU had
better take, buy, or borrow an Episcopal
prayer-book and read the marriage con-
tract. The marriage relation is more
sacred after n baptism of tears-tears
over the lost, over the grave.
Before marriage when YOU came into
the house you were as full of smiles and
politeness as n peach orchard in bios
som week. Now YOU come in the house
and say. I've lost money to-day You
sit down at the table. criticising the
food. and snatch up the evening news
paper. The children are awed at the
domestic autocrat. Though filed with
healthful curiosity, they must ask nc
| questions; the wife has had annoyance
IN the kitchen until her nerves are all
| like spikes. My brother, you have no
appreciation of the fact that your chill
| dren will be soon grown up or in ceme-
teries and you will have no opportunity
to influence them; the house in which
you live will go into other hands and
you yourself viii be gone. Marriage is
| a bargain. In some lands people pur-
chase their wives with cattle and sheep
In our land marriage IS an aflectionate
bargain in which man promises pro
lection, support, companionship, and
love. Are you fulfilling all that bar
| gain? i will tell you what you all know
Some men show more respect to Other
wives than their own, and many a mar
there is who allows his wife to carry {
scuttle of coal upstairs who will cleal
a room with one bound to pick mp an
other ladys pockethandkerchief Flirta
ton is devilish. Why don't you put i
in the bond, you domestic Shylock
Why don't you have it understood be
fore YOU are pronounced husband anc
wife, A married man who INDUCES il
Irritation is either fraud or rake.
care not how high his or her standing
| would not give ,hree-cent piece tina
had been three times clipped for tn
virtue of masculine or feminine tlirt-