, 1886-02-14

thing that Chopin or Bach or schooner ever
composed Her eyes, though swollen with
three weeks OF night watching over a child
in scarlet fever, ought to be to you more
attractive than a May morning. After the
last rose petal has faded from her cheek,
after the last feather has dropped from tho
ravens wing In her hair, after her face is
crossed and recrossed with rs many
wrinkles as there are graves over which she
has wept you ought to be able truthfully to
say to her, In the words OF Solomon's song:
behold. thou art fair, my Lowell behold,
thou art fairr'
And perhaps she may answer in the match
less words OF Robert Burns, the only man
who ever had tho pen, the ink, the head or
the heart that could write it;
John Anderson, my 10, John,
We clhmb tho hill thegither;
And mony a canty day, John,
We've had wi nne anither.
Now we maun totter down, John,
But hand in hhnd wen go;
And sleep thegithor at the foot.
John Anderson, my 10.
II auy one nSsail her name you will have
hard work 10 control your temper. and II
you strike him down the sin will not be I'M
p~ardonRble Nowhere else is thore so much
self-surrcndcr In the universe-except the
Son OF God for your salvation and mine
Your wife has n first mortgage on your body,
mind and soul, and the mortgage is entitled
TO bo foreclosed, and you no more certainly
own your two hands and your two eyes than
she owns you. Tho longer the journey Re-
becca makes from Badan Aram, and the
greater the risk Of tho expedition on the
back Of the camels, the more certainly IS
Isaac bound 10 be loyal and sympathetic
and true. Now, gentlemen, pay your debts
Won haltaNa In tho fnrra 81 N contract and
you are ready to meet a contract after you
have made IL Haven't you pledged ndness
and attention md faithfulness, and have you
fulfilled thoss promises and those pledges
made when inducing one into the the con-
jugal partnership II you have failed in
your promises, you deserve to have suit
brought against you for obtaining goods
under false pretences, and you deserve to be
mulcicd in a large amount OF damages
Review all the fair and beautiful and splen-
did and glorious things you promised before
marriage, and reflect to-day whether you
have kept your faith. Oh, you say, that
was all romance and sentimontalfsm and
a joke; that is tho way they all talk. My
brother, how would You like that plan tried
upon youi Suppose l am interested
in western lands, and l hn your
mind with rosy speculations; tell
you that tho farm / want TO sell you is
already laid out for "A city, and that there Is
n depot near by, so that all the crops may
be easily transported TO market; and that
eight or ten capitalists are soon going to pus
up splendid buildings near the spot; that tho
climate is so delicious and that the land IL
80 high and dry that there Is no room for
malaria; and that every dollar you plant
will grow up into n bush bearing ten or
twelve dollars; and you rush out and get an
attorney, and we have tho papers written,
and we have the cash paid down and the
whole thing finished. You bid good-by to
your friends ut the cast; you leave your
attractive home hero, and you take the rail
road train and rido many days; and
then you get out at a quiet de-
pot and buy n wagon. You go thirty
miles through the Wilderness, and you ar
rive at your now place. You see a man sit
ting on a wet log I'm a swamp, shaking with
his fifteenth attack of chflls and fever. You
ask him who no is, and he tells you no is the
real estate agent for all that region; and you
say, Where IS tho new depot and he says.
IL will be built here II the secure
their right OF "A track in next winters legis-
lation You say, Where are tho ten or
twenty capitalists who are going to build
splendid housesi where are they going to
put these housesl And he says, Thoy are
going 10 put them on that low land next to
the woods after the water is drained OIL. And
You say TO this real estate agent, Where is
the city that is laid out in this quarteri And
with chattering teeth he says, II you will
walt until this chill is Off l will show IL to
you on II map in my pocket And you lodge
that night in tho hut OF the real estate man,
aud you pray for everybody except for mo.
II you are more fortunate than most people
who go out on such an expedition, you have
got money enough to get back, and you some
up 10 mo. all out OF breath and blazing with
Indignation, and you say. You swlndled mo
out of everything; what did you moan by
1oceiving me about that western property
And | say, Oh. that is all romance; that is
ali sentimentalism; that Is all a joke; that
Is the way they all talk.
Yot / would DO far more excusable in de
ceiving you In such n matter than Is the man
who takes a woman from n comfortable
homo and surroundings and puts her among
surroundings and in a home which he has
never takon any care to make attractive.
She has given up her fathers house for a
dismal swamp OF married e1perience-dry-
less, fiowerless. fearless, comfortless. Goddess
II would not be so bad in me to cheat you
out Of a farm as it would be for you TO cheat
a woman out OF the happiness of n lifetime,
Have you fulfilled your contract Men OF
business have in their fireproof safes a pack
Of contracts, and sometimes they take this
pack Of contracts out and read over what the
party OF the first part and the party OF the
second part nave bound themselves to do.
Have you forgotten your contract You
had better buy an Episcopallan prayer book,
for, although all denominations OF Chris
tians have their forms OF marriage cere-
mony, yet ! think the marriage ceremony Of
a..
all intelligent ceremonies, whan it says. al
take thee 10 bc my welded wife. to have
and to hold from this day forward, for
better or for WORSE, for richer or for poorer,
in sickness and in health, to love and 10
cherish, until death do us part according TO
Gods holy ordinances, and thereto l
pledge thee my troth.n
Have you kept the contract Gentlemen,
fulhll your contracts, for all you promised
before marriage, and whether or not You
hnve fulhlled the promise, do not go
away, but just make n comparison in
your own minds now. Before marriage, per
haps you spent every evening with your bo-
throthed since marriage perhaps you
spend all the evenings away, except when
you have tho influenza or some other sick
nes-, and tho doctor tells you It Is not safe 10
go out Before marriage you were full Of
Intel Jrcuoh anu huuihtlou, anu hhnco mar
riAge you think II is hard to say anything In
praise OF her. although she ought to be more
attractive TO you now than ever, since the
struggle Of life ms become more severe, and
your relation is tho more sacred by the
baptism OF tears-toars over losses tears
over graves IL is well for you 10 go int1
the house with pleasant words and smiles DO
tore marriage, and II you went into the house
you we're alt a distiilation OF smiles; you
wero all pleasauincss, you were rs pleasant as
a peach orchard in blossom week Now,
you go Into tho HOUSE. aud you Put your hat
Never erve Up.
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