The Brookhaven leader., 1886-01-28

hsartless and Overbearlng, ana nanny
pamby and unreasonable women, vet
/ married: married perhaps to good men.
! These are the women who build the low
! club houses, where the husband and sons
| go because they can't stand it at home. On
| this sea of matrmony, where so many have
wrecked, am not right in advising Divins
! pilotage:
Especially is devout supplication needed
because of the fact that society is SO full of
nrtifcialities that men are deceived as to
whom they are marrying, and no one but
the Lord knows. After the dresSmaker,
and the milliner, and the jeweler, and the
hair -ad iuster, and the dancing master, and
the cosmetic art, have completed their
work, how is an unsophSticated MAN to
decipher the physiological roElyphics,
and to make accurate judgment of who it
is to whom he offers hand and heart. That
is what makes so many recreant husbands.
They make an honorable marriage con-
tract, but the goods delivered are so differ
ent from the sample by which they bar
gained. They were simply swindled, and
they backed out. They mistook Jezehel
for Longfellow's Evangelne, and Lucretia
Borgia for Martha Washington.
Aye; as the Indian chief boasts Of the
scalps he has taken, so there are in society
! o-day manWcoquettes who boast of the
masculine hearts they have captured.
And these women, though they may
/ live amid richest upholstery, are not
/ so honorable as the cyprians of
the street, for these advertise their in
! fanny, while the former profess heaven
while they mean hell. There is SO much
counterfeit womanhood abroad it is no
wonder that some can not tell tn genuine
coin from the base. Do YOU not realize
you need Divine guidance when | remind
you that mistake is possible in this i'm
portant affair, and, if made, is ire
vocable.
There is in all the world some one who
was made for you, as certainly rs Eve was
made for Adam. All sorts of mistakes oc
cur because Eve was made out of rib
from Adams side, Nobody knows which
Of his ribs was taken for the nucleus. If
you depend entirely upon yourself in the
selection of wife. there are twentythree
! possibilities to one that you will select the
wrong rib. BY the fate OF Ahab, whose
wife induced him TO steal; by the fate of
! Macbeth, whose wife pushed him into
massacre; by the Il of James Ferguson,
the philosopher, whose wife entered the
room while he was lecturing and willfuily
upset his astronomical apparatus, so that
he turned to the audience anu said: La
dies and gentlemen, | have the misfortune
to be married to this woman" by the
fate of Bulwer, the novelist, whose wife'S
temper was so Incompatible that he fur
nished her a beautiful house near London
and withdrew from her company, leaving
her with the one dozen dogs whom she en-
tertained as pets; by the fate Of john Mil
ton, who married termagant after he was
/ blind, and when some one called her IL rose
the poet said: II am no judge OF colOrS,
but it may be so, for l feel the thorns
daily;n by the fate of an Englishman,
whose wife was so determined to dance
on his grave that he was buried in the sea
by the fate of q village minister VIII rom
l knew, whose wife threw a
cup of hot tea across the table because they
differed in ssntiment-by all these scenes
of disquietude and domestic calamity, we
implore you to be cautious and yerful
before you enter upon the connubial state
which decides whether man shall have
two heavens or two hells, a heaven here
!
hell hereafter.
BY the bliss of Pliny. whose wife, when
ner husband was pleading in court, had
messengers coming and going to inform
her what impression he was making; by
the joy of GroUius, whose wife delivered
him from prison under the pretense of hav.
ing BOOKS carried out lest they be injurious
to his health, she sending out her husband
unobserved i'll one of the bookcases; by the
good fortune of Roland, in Louis time
whose wife translated ami composed for
her husband, while Secretary of the Int
riOr-talented, heroic, wonderful Nine. Ro-
land; by the happiness of many man
who has made intelligent choice of one ca
pable of being prime counselor and COM
panon in brightness and in grief-pray to
Almighty God, morning, noon and night
that at the right time and in the right way
he will send you a good, honest, loving,
sympathetic wife; or if she Is not sent &c
you, that you may be sent to her
At this point let me warn you not to lei
a question of this Importance be settled by
the celebrated matchmakers in almost ev-
cry community. Depend upon your owl
iud gment divinely illumined. These
brok ers in matrimony are ever planning
how they can unite impecunious innocence
to an heiress, or cclibate woman to million
aire or marquis, and that in many case:
makes life an unhappiness. How can any
human being, who knows neither of thu
two parties as God knows them, and wh(
is ignorant of the future, give such direc-
ton as you require at such a crisis Take
the advice of the earthly matchmaker in
stead of the Divine guidance, and you may
some day be led to use the words of Solo
mon, whose experience in home life wa
as melancholy as it was multitudinous.
One day his palace, with its great wid'
rooms and great wide doors and grea
wide hall, was too small for him and tn
loud tongue of woman belabOring hin
about some of his neglects, and he retreat
ed to the housetop TO get relief from th'
lingual bombardment. And while there h
saw a poor man on one corner of the roo
with mattress for his only furniture, anC
the open SKY his only covering. And Sol
ONION envies him and cries out: at is bet
ter to dwell in the corner of the hOusetOI
than with brawlng woman in Il wid'
house"
And one day duriaG the rainy season
the water leaked through the roof of tn
palace and began to drop III Il pail o.
pan set there to catch it. AT one sid
of him all day long the water wen
drop, drop, drop, while on the other Sid
a female companion quareling about thi
and quaITeling about that, the acrimon
! ions and petulant words falling on his ea