Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-10-08
7ala.agc on Flirting.

IT shall this morning take
it for granted that your mar
riage is all right, and shall go on and
advise you how to treat your wife. Ny
ambition is to tell you more plain truth
than you have ever heard in any three
quarters of an hour in all your life.
And first of all I charge you to realize
the responsibility of having taken her
away from the custody of her loving
parents and from the homestead in
which she was sheltered. 1t is amaz-
ing that any of us have the sublimity
of impotence to ask such transfer to
q home that is not yet constructed.
How ought you to treat her? My
brother, you ought to treat her we'll;
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 q May morning.
She has a first mortgage on you, body,
mind, and soul. Now, why don't you
pay your debts? You believe in the
force of contract. If you promised
kindness and faithfulness and have not
fulfilled these promises, then you have
fraudulently induced one into conjugal
partnership and should be imprisoned
for obtaining goods under false pre-
lenses, and should be mulcted for
large amount Of damages. Oh, fulfill
your contracts! 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 Episco-
pal prayer-book and read the marriage
contract. The marriage relation is
more sacred after 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 a peach-orchard IN
blossom 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 filled with
healthful curiosity, they must ask no
questions; the wife has had annoy
ance in the kitchen until her nerves are
all like spikes. My brother, you have no
appreciation of the fact that your chill
dren will lie soon grown up OF in Gene
teries and you will have no opportunity
ia influence them; the house i'll which
Won live will 90 into other hands and
YOU yourself will be gone. Marriage Is
bargain. in somo lands people pur'
chase their wives with cattle and sheep.
In our land marriage is an atfectionate
bargain in which man promises protec'
ton, support, companionship, and love.
Are YOU fulfilling all that bargain?
will tell you what you all know Some
men show more respect TO othef wives
| than than their own. and many mar
, there is who allows his wife to carry
, scuttle of coal upstairs, who will cleal
room with one bound to pick NJ
another lady's observation-disclosures
, FILTRATION is devilish. Why don't yo1
, mt it in the bond, you domestic Shy.
!; lock? Why don't you have it under
stood before you are pronounced nus
, hand and wife? A married man who IN
d,1oes in Irritation is either fraud OF
q rake. I care not how high his or he1
: standing, I would not give o'cen
:; niece that had been three times clipped
for the virtue of a masculine or feminine
4 Airt." -======