Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-02-08
TT e GAZETTE. FORT We KTH TEXAS MoNTAY, FEBRUARY 81

NOW some Oh YOU SVliio - a 49,.
hat or the rack aud scoWl, auu say
aLoss money to-dayN' and you 81. nov
at the table and critlcise inc way ln' ~,
others are done eating, and >clore the
o'.oning naper and reaf .datch up ihe
what has been going X ~ Soi't ho ri ~
day. The children. suas nyl.. ~, H.
uomeslle aV .,cFat. Bubbllng over with
run, ye' sney mast be quiet, and with
heal'p al Curiosity, yet they must ask no
u.destions. The wife has had enough
annoyance IN the nursery and parlor and
kitchs n to all her nerves with uettles and
spikes. AS you have provided the money
for food and wardrobe, you feel you have
done adj required Of you. Toward the
good cheer and the intelligent improve
ment and the moral entertainment OF that
horne, which at the longest can last buta
few years, you are doing nothing You
seem TO have no realization of
the fact that soon these children
will be grown up, or in their sepulchres,
and will be far removed from your in1u-
ence, and that the wife will soon end her
earthly mission, and that house will be
occupied by others, and you yourself will
be gone.
Gentlemen, fulGll your contracts
Christian marriage is an affectional bar
gain. In heather lands man wins his
wife by achievements. In some countries
wives are bought by the payment OF so
many dollars, as so many cattle or sheep.
In one country man gets on horse and
rides down where group OF women are
standing and seizes one OF them by the
hair and lifts her struggling and resisting
on his horse, and II her brothers and
friends do not overtake her before she
gets 20 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 bride. II
he cries out under the pounding he is re-
leeted. II he receives the blows nncom-
plainingly she is his by right. Endurance
and bravery and skill decide the marriage
in barbarous lands, but Christian mar
riage Is voluntary bargain in which YOU
promise protection, support, companion
ship and love.
Business men have in their fre-proof
safes file Of papers containing their
contracts, and sometimes they take them
out and read them over to see what the
party Of the first part and the party Of the
second part really bound themselves to
do. Different ministers of religion have
their own peculiar forms of marriage
ceremony, but II you have forgotten what
you promised at the altar OF wedlock you
had better buy or borrow an Episcopal
which contains the substance
OF I'LL intelligent marriage ceremonies,
when II says; al take thee TO be my
welded wife, to have and to hold from
this day forward, for better or for worse.
Tor richer or for poorer, in sickness and
IN health, to love and to cherish till
death US do part according to Gods holy |
ordinance, and thereto pledge thee nv
troth." Would II not be good idea to !
have that printed in tract form and wide |
ly distributedy
The fact is that many men are more
kind to everybody clse's wives than TO
their own wives, They win let the wife |
carry heavy coal-scuttle upstairs, aud |
viii Mt one bound clear the width of a
parlor to pick up some other lady's |
pocket-handkerchief. There Is an evil |
which have seen under the sun, and il |
Is common among men, namely, hus-
bands In ilirtations. The attention they /
ought to put upon their own wives, they |
oestow upon others They smile on |
them coyly and askance and with man !
ner that seems to say, 81 wish was free !
from that old drugde at home. What an /
Improvement you would be on my pres 1
ent surroundings And bouquets are
sent, and accidental meetings take place.
and late ut night the man comes 10 his |
prosaic home whlstling and hilarious,
ana wonders that the wife is Jealous.
rhere are thousands Of men who, while
not positively immoral, need radical cor
rectlon of their habits in this direction.
II ~ meanness unreasonable for man
~ us behavior to seem TO say to his
we you can't help yourself, and
WI go where please, and admire whom
please, and defy your criticism.n
why did you not have that put in the
'ond, o domestic Shylock? why did
'ou not have 1t understood before you
we're pronounced husband and wife, that
ne should have only a part of the divi-
enu OF your affections, and when, as
llhe rolled on and the cares OF life had
rased some OF the bright lines from her
ace, ana gwen unwieldiness TO her form,
GU would have the reserved right to
ny ooelsance to cheeks more rubi-
una and figure lither and more
que, anu as you demanded the
Ist pound of patience and endurance on
n Edwin Forrest or Macready, have /,
lpped the eccentric marriage document !
nj have said "Its In the bondnn IL this !
lodern Rebekah had understood before |
cad where she was alighting, she would
ave ordered the camel-drivcrs to turn |
ne caravan backward towards padan- |
ram. Filtration has its origin either in =.
lshonesty orlicentlousness The married 9
IAN who INDUCES in it is either fraud /
a rake. However high up in society !
lch a one may be, and however sought 7
ter, | would not give a 8-cent piece. y
Tough II had been three times clipped, =
II the virtue OF either the masculine or !
minnie fiirt.
The most worthy thing for the thou -
nds OF married men to do is to 20 home a
I'd apologize for past negleets, and :
tighten up their old love. Take up the :,
mily bible and read the record of the 4
arriage day. Open the drawer of relies y
the box inside the drawer, containing q
G trinkets OF your dead child. Take up .,
e pack Of yellow-covered letters that .,
ere written before you became one. Re. ~
arse the scenes of Joy and sorrow ia y
lich you have mingled. Put all these y,
lngs as fuel on the altar, and by Il coal H.
sacred Dire rekindle the extingulshed -,
lht liz NvNS a hIaet from, ha1t go, - "