Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1886-02-04

them Because they depended on themselves
and not on God there are thousands of women
every year going to the slaughter. In India
women leap on the funeral pyre of a dead hus-
band We have worse spectacle than that in
America-women innumerable leaping on the
funeral pyre of living husband.
Avoid all proposed alliances through news
paper advertisements. Many women, just for
fun, have answered such advertisements, and
have been led on from step to step to catas-
trophe infinite. All the men who write such
Advertisements are villains and lepers-all,
without single exception All! ALI! Do you
answer them just for fun? Twill tell you q
safer and healthier fun. Thrust your hand
through the cage at a menagerie and stroke the
back of cobra from the East Indies. Put
your head in the mouth of Numdian lion to
see if he will bite. Take glassfuI of paris
green mixed with some delightful henbane
These are safer and healthier fun than an
swering newspaper advertisements for a wife,
My advice is: Marry man who is a fortune
in himself. Houses, lands, an large inherit
ance are well enough, but the wheel of fortune
turns 80 rapidly that through some investment
all these in few years may be gone. There
are some things, however, that are a perpetual
fortune-good manners, geniality of SOUL kind
ness, intelligence, sympathy, courage, perse-
verance, industry, and whole -heartedness
Marry such one and you have married for
tune, whether he have an income now of $780,
000 q year or an income of $500 A bank is
secured according to its capital stock, and not
to be judged by the deposits for day or o
week. man is rich according to his sterling
qualities. and not according to the vacllation
of circumstances, which may leave with him q
large amount of resources to-day and withdraw
them tomorrow If man is worth nothing
but money, he is poor indeed If man have
upright character, he is rich Property may
come and go; he is independent of the markets.
Nothing can buy him out; nothing can sell him
out He may have more money one year
than another, but his better fortunes never
vacillate
Yet, do not expect to find perfect man. II
you find one without any faults, incapable Of
mistakes, never having guessed wrongly, his
patience never having been perturbed, immac-
ulate in speech, in temper, in habits, do not
marry him Why? Because you would enact
o swindle. What would you do with perfect
man who are not perfect yourself? And how
dare you hitch your imperfection fast on such
supernatural excellence? What a companion
you would make for an angel! In other
words, there are no perfect men There never
was but one perfect pair, and they slipped
down the banks of Paradise together. We oc-
casionally find man who says he never SINS.
We know he lies when he says it We have
had financial dealings with two or three per-
| tect men, and they cheated us wofully. Do
not, therefore, look for an immaculate hus-
band, for you will not find him. h5 6a
was reading of bridal reception. The
young man had brought home the choice Of
his heart, in her elaborate and exquisite ap.
parel As she stood in the gay drawing-room
and amid the gay group, the young mans eyes
filed with tears of Joy as he thought that she
was his Years passed by, and they stood in
the same parlor on another festal occasion
She wore the same dress, for business had moi
oa IN kha hrrch and he
expected, and he had never been able to pur.
chase for her another dress. Her face was not Of
bright and smooth as it had been years before
and careworn look had made it's signature or
her countenance. As the husband looked at
her he saw the difference between this occasion
sat AMI said: @YOu remember the time wher
we were here before You have the same dress
on. Circumstances have somewhat changed
but you look to me far more beautiful than YOU
did then" There is such a thing as conjugal
fidelity, and many Of you know it in your owr
homes. :as g5 Els J.-pt
But after al t1e good advice we may give
you, we come back to the golden pillar from
which VIC starSed-the tremendous truth thai
no one but God can guido you in safety abou
this matter, that may decide your happiness
for two worlds, this and the next So my
sister, put your case where Naomi put tha
Of Ruth and Orpah when she said: s1he LORD
grant you that ye may find rest each Of you il
the house of her husband" pug
imagine the hour for which you pledged
your tr0th has arrived. There is much merry.
making among your young friends; but there
is an undertone Of sadness in all the house
Your choice may have been the gladdest an6
the best, and the joy of the whole round of rela
tives, but when young eaglet is about to leave
the old nest and is preparing to put out into
sunshine and storm for itself it feels it's wings
tremble somewhat So she has good cry be.
fore leaving home, and at tho marriage father
and mother always cry, or feel like it If you
riage, though il be with brightest prospects
you will think differently when the day comes
To have all along watched her from infancy te
sirlhood, and from girlhood to womanhood.