Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-03-05

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as many wrinkles as there are graves oner
when sne mas wept, you will be able truth
i"lly 70 say, IN the words of Solomon,s
song:
behola, thou art fair, my love! Behold.
thou art fair! '
And perhaps she may respond apnro.
pflately, In the words that no one bnt tho
hlatchless Robert Burns could ever have
round pen or ink or hearto or brain tn wr;to.
John Anderson, my 10 John
We clamb the hill thegither:
And mony a canty day. John,
We've had VII ane anither.
NOW we maun totter down, John.
But hand and hand We'll 90.
And sleep thegither at the foot,
John Anderson, my 10.
II any one assail her good name YOU VIII,
nave hard work to control YOUR temnor.
and If you should strike him down the Gin
will not be objectionable. By as complete
a surrender as the universe ever saw. ex-
cept that OF the Son Of God for your saliva
ton n mine, she has a first mortgage on
your body, mind, and soul, and the mort
gage is foreclosed, and you do not more
thoroughly own your two eyes or your
two hands than she owns you. The longer
the journey Rebekah makes, and the great
er the risks of her expedition on the backs
OF the camels, the more thoroughly is
Isaac bound to be kind and indulgent and
worthy.
Now, be honest and pay your debts. You
promised to make her happy. Are you
making her happy? You are an honest
man in other things, and feel the import
ance of keeping a contract. If you have
induced her into a conjugal partnership
under certain pledges of kindness and val
liable attention, and then have failed to
fulfill your word, you deserve to have a
suit brought against you for getting goods
under false pretense, and then you ought
to be mulcted in a large amount of dam
ages. Review now all the fine, beautiful,
complimentary, gracious and glorious
things you promised her before marriage,
and reflect whether you have kept your
faith. Do you say: ooh, that was all sem
timentalism and romance and a joke" and
that "they all talk that way"
My brother. do not get mad at what I
but honestly compare the promises YOU
made and see whether you have kept
them. Some of you spent every evening
of the week with your betrothed before
marriage, and since then you spend every
evening away, unless you have influenza
or some sickness on account Of which the
doctor says you must not go out. You
used to fill your conversation with inter
j%ections of adulation, and now you think
it sounds silly to praise the one who ought
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go by and life grows in severity of strug-
gle and becomes more sacred by the bap-
tism of tears-tears over losses, tears over
graves. Compare the way some of you
used to come in the house in the evening.
when you were attempting the capture OF
her affections, and the way some of you
come into the house in the evening now.
Then what politeness, what distillation of
smiles, what graciousness, sweet as the
peach orchard in blossom week!
Now some of you come in and put your
hat on the rack and scowl, and say: "Lost
money to-day" and you sit down at the
table and c~riticise the way the food is
cooked. You shove back before the Others
are lone eating, and snatch up the even.
ing paper and read, oblivious of what
AAS OCC1 SOlES Ol III UA1U uOlllo I'LL udy
The children are in awe before the do.
nestle antocrat. Bubbling over with
fun, yet they must be quiet, and with
healthful curiosity, yet they must ask
no questions. TIL wife has had enough
annoyance in the nursery and parlor
and kitchen to fill her nerves with net.
ties and spikes. AS you have provided
the money for food and wardrobe, yor
feel you have lone all required of you
Toward the good cheer and the intelli
gent improvement and the moral enter
tainment of that home, which at the
longest can last but a few years, yor
are doing nothing. You seem to have
no realization of the fact that soon these
children will be grown up or in their sep,
ulchers, and will be far removed from YOU
influence, and that the wife will soon enc
her earthly mission, and that house will b.
occupied by others, and you yourself will
be gone.
Gentlemen, fulfill your contracts. Chris
tian marriage is an affectional bargain
In heather lands a man wins his wife by
achievements. In some countries wives
are bought by the payment of so many
dollars, as so many cattle OF sheep
In one country the man gets on {
horse and rides down where E
group of women are standing, AND
seizes one of them by the hair, and lift.
her struggling and resisting on his horse
and if her brothers and friends do no
overtake her before she gets to the jungle
she is his lawful wife. In another LAND
the masculine candidate for marriage is
beaten by the club of the one whom he
would make his bridge. If he cries OF
under the pounding, he is rejected. If he
receives the blows uncomplaingly, she is
his by right. Endurance and bravery and
skill decide the marriage in barbarous
lands, but Christian marriage is a volun'
tary bargain in which o promise pro-
lection, support, companionship and love
business men have in their ~fireproot
safes a fle 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 and the party of the sec.
end part really bound themselves to do
Different ministers of religion have their
own peculiar forms of marriage ceremony,
but if you have forgotten what you prom
Used ae the altar of wedlock, you had bet
ter buy or borrow an Episcopal prayer
book, which contains the substance of all
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