The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-03-19
Talmage on Flirting.

49, ~ tlAkKs Sf
II shall this morning tale !.
granted that your marriage il III r;.hs
and shallgo on and advise Won M
tc treat your wife. My ambition |.
to tell you more plain truth than w.
have ever heard in any three-ouarte.s
OF an hour in oil your life. Ard s,s.
OF all charge you to realize tho
sponslbllity OF having taken her awav
from the custody OF her loving pars.'ts
n from the homestead in which ne
was sheltered. 1t is amazing chat anx
OF us have the sublimity OF imnudsnca
to ask such a trasfer to a home thst
is not yet constructed. How ousLs
you to treat her? NV brother 49,
ought to treat her better thar
n in the universe, excepting God ~
mighty. Her name should sound
sweeter than music to you and her eyes
though swollen, with watching 4 cb;ls
sick with scarlet fever. should
be brighter to you than q Ma
morning. She has a first NOR.
gage on. you, body, mind and SOM
Now, why don't you pay your debtsi
You believe in the force Of a confract
1850 promised kindness andfaithfnI
ness and have not fulfilled thess
promises, then yoG have traudulently
induced n into conjugal paftHership
and should he imprisonedforobta
goods undertake. pretenses and sbo1fd
be mulcted for a large amount Of dam.
ages. o, fulfill yourcontractsl Men az
business have lots of contracts and
sometimes they take them and read
what the party of the first part and
and the party of the second part
agreed to do. Have you forgotten
your contract? Then you had better
take, buy, or borrow an E~pisconaI
prayer-book and read the MARRIAGE
contract. The marriage relation Il
more sacred after a baptism Of tears
tears over the lost, over the rave.
"Before marriage when you camein.
to the house you were as full OF smiles
and politeness as a peach orchard in
blossom week. Now you come into
the house and say, I've lost money
to-day You sit down at the table,
criticising the food and snatch up the
evening newspaper. The children are
awed at the domestic autocrat.
Though filled with healthful curiosity,
they must ask no questions; the wife
has had annoyance in the kitchen I'M
til her nerve are all like spikes. Ny
brother, you have nc appreciation Of
the fact that your children win be
soon grown up or in cemeteries and
you Will have no opportunity to In
fuence them; the house in which you
live will 90 into other hands and you
yourself will be gone. Marriage
is a bargain. In some lands
people purchase their wives with
cattle and sheep. In our land
marriage is an affectionate bargain
in which a man promises protection,
support, companionshipa and love. Are
you fulfilling all that bargain? Twill
tell you what you all know. Some
men show more respect to other wives
than their own, and many p man
there is who allows his wife to carry q
scuttle of coal upstairs who will clear
a room with one bound to pick up an
other lady $ pocket handkerchief, Fir
tation is deviiish. Why don't you
put it in the bond, you domestic Shy
lock?. Why don't you have it under
stood before you are pronounced bus
band and wife? A married man who
INDUCES in a firtationi is either afraud
or a rake. Icare not how high his or
her standing, would not give a three
cent piece that had been three times
clipped for the virtueo of ANA sculineor
feminine firt."