Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-01-11

pany, leaving her with the one dozen dogs
whom she entertained as petss by the
fate Of John Milton, who married terma-
giant after be was blind, and when some
one called her 4 rose the poet said 81 am
40 Judge Of coiors, but IL may be so, for
feel the thOrns daily" by the fate Of an
Englishman, whose wife was so deter
mined 20 dance on his grave, that he was
buried IN the sea; by the fate OF village
minister whom knew, whose wife threw
a cup OF hot tea across the table because
they differed in sentiment-by all these
scenes Of disquietude and domestic
calsmity--we implore you to be cautious
and prayeriul before you enter upon the
connubial state, which decides whether q
man shall have two heavens or two hells,
a heaven here aud a heaven forever, or
/ hcffpow and hell hereafter
/ By hue bliss OF Pliny, whose wife, when
/ her husband was pleading IN court, had
messengers coming and going TO inform
/ her what impression he was making; by
I the joy OF GrOtius, whose wife delivered
/ him from prison under the pretense Of
I having books carried out lest they be in
I furious 70 his health, she sending out her
I husband unobserved IN one Of the book
cases. by the good fortune of Roland, in
/ Louis time, whose wife translated and
composed for her husband while secrGe
I t0ry OF the interior talented heroic, won.
derlul Madame Roland; by the happiness
Of many man who has made intelligent
choice Of one capable OF being prime coun-
selOr and companion in brightness and in
grief, pray 10 Almighty God, morning,
noon and night, that at the right time and
IN the right wgy, He will send you good,
honest, loving, sympathetic wife; or IL
she is not sent to you, that you may be
sent 10 her.
at this point let me warn you not to
let question Of this importance be set
tied by the celebrated matchmakers, in al
most every community. Depend upon
your own judgment diyinely illu mated.
These brokers in matrimOny are ever
planning how they can unite impecuuious
Innocence to an heiress, or celibate
woman to millionaire or marquis, and
that in many cases makes life an unhap.
plness. How can any human being who
knows neither of the two parties as God
knows them, and who is ignorant Of the
future, give such direction as you require
at such a crisis1 Take the advice Of the
earthly matchmaker instead of the divine
guidance, and you may some day be led
To c the words of Solomon, whose ex-
as 1t was multitudinous.
One day his palace, with its great wide
rooms and great wide doors aud great
wide hall, was too small for him and the
loud tongue of woman belabOring him
about some OF his negects, and he re-
treated to the hOusetop TO get relief from
tho lingual bombardment. And while
there he saw poor man on one corner of
the roof with mattress for his only fur
niture and the open sky his only covering.
And Solomon envies him and cries out:
cit is better to dwell in the corner of the
housttop than with Il brawling woman In
u wide house,
Ana one day during the rainy season
the water leaked through the roof OF the
palace and began TO drop in pail or pan
set there to catch 1t. Aud at one side Of
him all day long the water went drop!
drop! drop! while on the other side
female companion quarreling about this
ana quarrellng about that tile acrimoni.
GUS and petulant words falling on his ear
in ceaselpss pelting--dropi dropl drop!
and he seized his pen and wrote: "a con
tlnual dropping in very rainy day and a
contentious woman are allke.h
II solomon had been as ptayerful at the
beginning OF his life as he was at the
close, how much domestic infelicity he
would have avoided. Bus prayer about
this Will amount to nothing unless you
pray soon enough. Walt until. you are
fascinated and the equilibrium of your
soul is disturbed by magnetic and ex-
qui~ite presence, and then you will answer
your own pray ers, and you will mistake
your own iniatuation for the voice of
/ God.
II you have this prayerful spirit you will
surely avoid all female scoffers Mt the.
| Christian religion; and there are quite a
number Of them in all communities. 1t
must be told that, though the only n1u-
ence that keeps woman from being esti-
mated and treated as slave--aye, as Il
| brute and a beast of burden-is Christian
| ity, since where it is not dominant she Is
so treated, yet there are women who will
80 far forget themselves and forget their
| God, that they will 90 and hear lecturers
! Inalign Christianity and scoff ut the most
sacred things of the soul. A good woman
over-porsuaded by her husband, may 20
once to hear such TRADE against the
| Christian religion, not fully knowing what
she is going to hear; but she will not go
twice A woman, not a Christian but a
resprcter OF religion, said TO me. 81 was
| persuaded by my husband to 90 aud hear
/ an lnndel lecturer once, but going nome,
| said to him:. My dear husband, would
not goagaiu though my declnature should
result in our enforcement forevern' Aud
the wolaan was right. Ii after all that
Christ and Christianity have done for
woman she can go again and again TO
hear such assaults, she is an awful crea-
ture aud you had better not come near
such reeSing lepress. She needs to he
washed and for three weeks TO he soaked
| IN carhoic acid, and for whole year
fumigated, before she Is DIT for decent
society While It Is not demanded that a
woman be a Christian before marriage
abe must have regard for the Christian re-
! ligion or she is bad woman and un-
worthy of being your companion in lie
charged with such stupendous solemnity
and vlclssitudes.
! What you want, oh man, in wife, is
not butterfly of the sunshine, not a zig
CLING nonenity, not painted doll, not Il
gosSiping gad-about, not mixture of
artillclalties v Itch leave you In doubt as
To where the humbug ends and the woman
begins, but an earnest soul, one that can
not only laurh when Won lonuh hut wear