Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-01-18

hundreds Of thousands. Why this is, VI
leave Others to surmise. 1t would seem
that woman is fRvorite with the Lord
and that therefore he has made more o
that kind. From the order of the creation
in Paradise, it is evident that womsn is al
improved addition of man. But whatever
be the reason for it, the fact is certain
that she who selects q husband has small
er number of people to select from than he
who selects q wife Therefore q woman
ought 10 be specially careful in her choice
OF lifetime companionship. She cannot
afford to make a mistake
If man erin his selection, he can spend
his evenings at the club, and dull bis
sensibilities by tobacco smoke, but woman
has no club room for refuge, and would
find it difficult to habituate herself to ci-
gars. II woman make bad Job OF
marital selection, the probability is that
nothing but funeral can relieve it. Di-
vorce cases in court may interest the pub
lie, but the love letters OF married couple
are poor reading except for those who
write them. Pray God that you be deliv-
cred from irrevocable mistake
AVOID AFFIANCE WITH 4 DEsPIsER
of the Christian religion, whatever else he
may have nr may not have ! do not say
he must needs be religious man, for
Paul sayF the unbelieving husband is
sanctiEed ny the wife bat marriage with
a man who ha,eI the Christian religion will
insure you life Of wretchedness. He
will csricature your habit OF kueel.
ing in prayer. He will speak
depreciatirtIy Of Christ. He will wound
all the mo-. sacred feelings Of your soul.
He will pu, ycur home under the ana,hemN
Of the Lord God Almighty. In addition to
the anguish with which he will fill your
life, there j. great danger thai he will de
apol your ope OF heaven, and make your
marriage relation an infinite and eternal
/ disaster. Ii you have made such engage
ment, your first duty is TO break it. Ny
word may come just in time to save your
soul
Further DO not unite in marriage with
a man of bad hsbta. in the idea OF reform
! ing him. II now, under the restraint Of
your present acquaintance, be will not
/ give up his bad habits, after he has won
/ the prize you cannot expect him to do 60
/ You might as well plant q violet in the
| face OF northeast storm, with the idea OF
sppeasing it. You might as well run q
| schooner al1ugside OF a burning ship, with
the idea of saving the ship. The conse
quence will be, schooner md chip will be
DESTROYED together. The almshouse could
tell the story OF hundred women who
married men to reform them, II by
, twenty-five years Of age man has been
grappled by intox'canrs, he i7 under such
headwaV tbs. your aitemp. to stop him
would be very much like running up the
track with a wheelbarrow to stop q Hud-
son River express train. What you call an
/ iuc5ria'e noS.a days i3 not a victim 10
/ wine or wh.skeg, but 10 logwood and
/ s.rychn're and nuX voInica. All these
poisons ave kindlad their fires in his ton
que and oraiu, and all the tears Of a wife
wecpir- cannot exUcgujsh the ttames.
| Instead of m ,rrying e man to reform him,
/ let him reform first and then give him
tine 10 see whether the reform is TO he
permanent. Let him undara,and that il
he cannot dc without his bal habits tor
two years, he must do without You for
ever. EFS1
AVOID UNION WITH ONE SrPEEMELY SELFISH
or so wound up in his occupation, that he
has no room for another. Gou OCCASION
ally fnd q IAN who spreads himself 50
widely over iae path Of life that there ia no
room for gu ,,r 10 walk beside him. He
is no. tSs o.. .,aio Of sai45Ois iucom-
rle'e without the other biSde, but ne is a
, chisel made to Gu. his way through lite
alonesor file full Of roughness, made to
be drawn across oociety without any affinity
for other fles. His disposition is lite.
lorg protest against marriage. Others are
81 married to their occupation or protes'
sion that the taking OF auy other bride is 6
/ cage O, bigamy. There are men G9 severe
ly tied TO thei. literary work. as was Chat
terton, whose essay was not printed be-
cause Of the death OF the Lord Mayor.
Chatterton made out the following ac.
count: Lost by the Lord Mayor death
in this essay, one pound, eleven shiilngs
end sixpeuce Gained in elegies and
essays, five pounds and FIVE shilIlDgs ,
Then be puts what be gained
.lv the Lord Mayors death
opposite to what he had lost, 0od wrote
under it: "And glad he is dead BY three
pounds, thirteen shillingg aud slxpence.
When q man is so hopelessly literary 90
that he ought to be perpetual ccilbate;
h,s library. his laboratory, his books are all
the compauonship needed, Indeed some
of the mightiest mea this world ever saw
have not pGtroni ed mstrimonY. Cowner,
Poua. Nexton, Swift, Locke, NRlpole Uit'
Ion. Hume, ArbutLnGt were single Some
Of these marriage would have helpei. The
r;pht kind of wife would have cured
Cowper's gloom, and give to NeTton more
practicability and been q relief TO Lock-
oyertasked brain. A Christian wife might
have converted Hume and Gibbon to a
bohef in Christianity. But Dean Swift did
not deserve wire, trols the way in wnicl
, he broke the heart of Jane Waring first
, trd Esther johnson afterwards, and last
nr all "Vanesaa. The great wit Of his
day, he was outw.tted By his own cruel
ties.
. Am:d So NAM
.JssImLlTIEs or tATAL. M..TAhE,
: am not right in urging you to seek the
:, unerring wisdom Of Cod, Gpd before. yo'
, are infatuated Because most marriage!
are fit to be made convinces US that they
, sre Diviuely arranged. Almost every
! cradle has an affinity towards some othel
. cradle. They may be on the opposite side
: Oft earth, but one child gets ont OF thu
crsie and another child gets out OF tha
a cradle ana w.th tneir nast steps tney ataf
= tor each Other. They may diyerge iron
. he s.raight path, gong towards the No''n
! cr South or East, or Wesr. They may taI
= down. bat the two rise facing each other
= The are approaching Gil th'cafn ."ia.acy
/. The one ali through the years rt boyhoo,
. il poipg TO meet the one who Il com'rI
|, through all the years Of girlhooj, - NEE
y him. The decision Of parents as 10 wha
. "a ba.t ~anrerrin~ therl cna tie cSenGc
g Of lor,ane, may iot iine O9eui TO s!rc'
- the two iourneys; but on they 60. The
= NAV never have seen each other. Ihe
i m,y nsver have heard OF each other. B-
-, the l.o pilgrims who started Ht ihe t~
+ cradles, ore nearing. after eighteen, ,went
- or thirty years. the two core " hin s:I.
A,,La i,rsr riGrGe tneY may igel disllk