Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-01-11

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multitudes who never will marry, ana
still greater multitudes who are not ht to
marry. In Great Britain to-day there are
9iS.000 more women than men, and that,
understand is about the ratio in Amer
ica. BY mathematical and ineXorabie
law, NOu see, millions Of women Will
never marry. The supply for matrimOny
greater than the demand, the FIRST lesson
OF which is that every woman ought 70
prepare to take care of herself II need be,
Then there are thousands OF men Nhn
have no right to marry, because they
nave become SO corrupt of character that
their offer OF marriage is an insult to any
good woman. Society Will have 80 be
toned up and corrected on this subject,
so that it shall realize that If woman
who has sacrificed her honor is united
for marriage, so is any man who has ever
sacrificed his purity. WHAT right have
YOU, o, masculine beast! whose life has
been loose, to take under your care the
7pOtiessness Of virgin reared IN the
sauctity Of respectable homey VIII a
buzzard dare to court dove:
But the majority Of YOU will marry, and
have a right to marry, and RS your re-
llgious teacher | wish 10 say to these men,
in the choice Of a wife first OF all seek Di-
vine direction. About thirsy-hyo years
ago when Martin Farquar Tupper, the
English poet, urged men to prayer before
they decided upon matrimonial associa-
tion, people laughed. And some Of them
have lived TO laugh ON the other side OF
their mouth. The need ofDiyine direction
| argue from the fact that SO many men,
and some OF them sJrOng ard wise, have
wrecked their lives at this iunCture. Wit
ness Samson and this woman of IImnatn.
Witness Socrates pecked OF the hl5tOrlcbi
&antippe Witness job, whose wife mad
nothing to prescribe FOR his carbuuces
but allOpathic doses OF profanity. Witness
Ananias, a liar, who might perhaps have
been cured by a truthful spouse, yet mar
rying as great liar as himself-Sapphir
Witness John Wesley, one Of the best men
that ever lived, united 90 one OF the most
outrageous and scanGalous Of women,
who sat in City Road Chapel making
mouths at him while he preached. Witness
the once cOnnubial wretchel,Eess Of John
Buakiu, the great art essayist, and Fred
erick W. Robertson, the great preacher.
Witness thousand bells ON earth kindied
by unworthy wives, termagante that
scOld like March u0rthcaster; female
spendthritts, that put their husbands into
fraudulent schemes TO get money enough
20 meet the lavishment Of domestic ex-
penditure; Opium-eatng wOmen-abOut
400, ,000 of them ia The United States--whO
will nave the drug though it should cause
the eternal damnatiOn Of the whole house
mold; heartless and OVerbearing, and
nam0yspamby and unreasonable women,
yet married married perhaps to good me6.
These &re the women who build the low
Club-bouses, where the husbands and
SONS 20 because they can't stand it at
home. On this sea Of matrimOny where
so many have wrecked, am ! not right IN
advising Divine pilotageg
Especially is deyout supplication need
ed because OF the fact that society is so
full Of artticialities that men are deceived
as to whom they are marrying, and no one
but the Lord knows. After the dress
maker, and the mllilner, and the jeweler,
and the hair-adj and the dancing
master, and the cosmetic art have COM
pleted their work. how is an unsOphjsti.
Gated man % decipher the physiological
hieroglyphies aud make accurate judg-
nent OF who 10 is to whom he offers hand
ard heart. That Is what makes 50 many
recreant husbands. They make an hon
Orable marriage contract, but the goods
delivered are so different from the sample
bv which they bargeined. They were
simply sWndled, ana they backed out.
They mist0ok Jezebel for LOngfellow's
EYangeline, aud Lucretia BOrgia for
Martha Washington.
Ave: as the Indian chief boasts of the
scalps he has taken, so there are in socie-
ty today many cOquettes who boast of the
masculine hearts they have captured.
Aud these women, though they may live
amid richest upholstery, are not so non
Orable as the cyprians OF the street. for
these advertise their lnfamy, while the
former profess heaven while they mean
hell. There is 50 much counterfeit wo-
manhood abroad 1t is no wonder that
some cannot tell the genuine coin from
the base. DO YOU not realize YOU need
Divine guidance when remind you that
mistake Is possible in this important af-
fair, and, il made, is irrevOcablog
The worst prediCament possible is 10 he
uuhaopily yOked together. You see il is
impossible to break tue yoke. The more
you pull apart the more calling the yoke.
The min ster might bring you up again,
and in your presence read the marriage
ceremony backward, might put you on
the opposite sides OF the altar from where
you were when y0u were united might
take the ring of 0i the finger, might rand
the wedding vel asunder, might tear ont
the marriage Leaf from the family Bible
record; but all that would fail 10 unm8rry
yOu. H. is better NOT TO mako the mistake
than TO attempt its correction. But mea
and women do not reveal uli their charuc-
teristics till after marriage, and how are
YOU tO avoid committing tle fatal blum
derY There ie only ono Being u tho uni
verse vino can tell you whom 10 chOoso,
and that is the Lord of Paradise. Ho
made Eve for Adam, aud Adam fOr Eve,
and b0tu for each oincr. adam hadnot a
large grOup OF women from whom 90 sp-
lect bis wife, but 10 3D. f1rtuEale, Judging
from some mistakes which she afterWards
made, that II was Eve OF nothing.
There is in all the world some one who
was made for you. as certainly ag Eve
Was made for Adam. All SORTS of mis-
ta es occur because Eve was made out OF
a rio from Adams side. Nobody knows
which Of his - ribs was taken for she nu.
cleus. II YOU depend entirely upon your
self .n the selection Of q wife, there are 20
possibilities To one that you will select The
wrong rib. by tie fate ~ Ahab, whose
wife induced him 20 steal: by the tate OF
Macbeth. whose wife pushed him into
massacre; by the fate Of James Ferguson,
the philosopher, whose wife entered the
room while he was lectur.ng AMI Wilfully
upset his astronomical apparatus, so that
be- turned 10 the audience and said,
"Ladies and gentlemen, ! have tho mis-
fortune 20 be married tl TINS woman 80
by the fate ~ BulWcr. th4 novelist.
whose wife's temper WAS 40 incompatible
that he furnished her q beautiful house
uear London and Withdrew from her com.
pHuy, leaving her with the one dozen DOGS
whom she enter rIhinrd as pefs by tho fatc
of John n Hilton, who married a iermhgant
after be- WAS blind, and when some one
called her q ross Che poet HAldi d" Hm no
iudan nf rulOFa. buf III mas nn Hu. for / 10