Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-01-27

Use than mar, because II you make mis-
take 1t is worse for you. II man blum
der about promise Of marriage or 60 On
TO sn unfortunate msrrisge, he can spend
his evenings away, and can go 10 the
club or the Republican Or Democratic
headquarters, and absorb his mind in
city or state CT national elections, or
smoke himself stupid or drink himself
drunk. But there is 10 place Of
regular retrest for you, 0 woman. and
you could not take narcotics or intox-
icants and keep your responsibility. Be-
study and advise. There shall never
again II your earthly history De time
when you SO much need God.
1t seems TO me that the world ought to
cast out from business credits spd from
coed neighoorhood those VINO boss!
of the number Of hearts they have
won, IS the Indi,n boasts CT the number
of scalps he has taken. Ii G man will lie
to woman and a woman will lie to
man about so important matter ss that
Of s lifetime's welfare, they will lie about
bill of goods and lie about finances and
lie about anything. Society to-day is full
Of gsllants and -millinere and carpet
GutSutS GlO SOHuCtsC5 oAN slSoS LoOSt
God -forsaker OF ill wretches-firts. And
they go about drawing-rooms aud the
parlors Of watering places, simpering and
bowiDg and scraping and Whispering, and
then return to the club rooms il they be
men, or to their special gatherings il they
be women, to chatter and giggle over Whist
was Isaid to them In confidence. Condign
punishment is ep. to come upon them and
J Maid in fhpir coin n0nl6
| point you to a score whom society has let
drop very hard in return for their bsse
vreffic in human hearts. AS TO such men
they walk around in their celibacy, after
! their hair is stresked with gray, and pre-
tending they are naturally short-sighted
when their eyes are SO old in sin that they
need the spectacles of q septuagensrian.
81 eyeglass about No. s, and think they
are bewitchiDg in their stride snd over
towering in their glsnces, although they
are simply lsughing-stoc for all man
kind. And il these base dealers in human
| hearts be females, they are left after
while severely alone, striving in very
desperation of ggonY OF cosmetics TO get
! back 10 the attrsctiveness they had when
they used TO brsg how many masculine
| affections they had slaughtered. Forsaken
of God and honest men and good women,
are sure to be all such masculine and fe-
male triflers with
HUMAN AND YET IMMORTAL
affections. o man, o woman, having
pligbted your troth stick to it! And
| here my idea widens and I have 10 say
noL only to those who have made 6 mis-
take in solemn promise Of marriage, but
to those who have already at the altar
| hao yrhap fh9V two
or in diversity CT tastes and likes and
dislikes are neither one nor two, but a
| dcZan-mske the best you can OF 81 awful
mistake. And here let me answer letters
| that come from every state of the Ameri-
can union, and from across the sea, ard
are coming year after year from men and
women who are terrifcally aliiancec ano
tied together in hard knot, q very hard
The letters run something Ike this:
"What ought l to do, my husband Is 6
drunkard?" my wife is gad-about
aud will not stay at home" "My com :
panion is Ignorant aud hates books and l
revel in them" Isl like music and Il
! pi*no sets my husband crszy." 81 an
fond Of socisl life snd my compELion is 6
reCluse " az am trying to be good and
nv lifelong associate is very Dad. VIVA
shsll do?n Ny answer IS, there are
certain good reasons t0- enforcement
The Bible recoga!Z g them, GOOD socie'
, ~ recognizes them. But it must be thu
a very last resort. and only after oil reason
aOle attempts st reclamation and adjust
,, ment have proved dead failure. Whei
, such attempts fail il Is generally oecaue
+ OF meddlesome outsiders, and women tel
the wroDged wife how she ought to stant
+ en- her rights, and men tell the wronge'
. husband how he ought to stand on nj
. rights. And let husband and wife In O.
!, unhappy marriage relation stand punctli
: iously on their rights, snd there Will
II no res0iustment, and only one thing WI
= be sure 10 them and that is hell
=. earth.
a you are unhsppily married, in mos
i, cases l advise you, make the best you ca
r OF an awfully bad bargain. Do not preJet
It your peculiarities more than Is necessary
IS Perhaps you may have some faults OF you
own which the other party in III
is marital alliance may have TO suffer. 10
4, are in the same yoke. If you pull aslo
g, the yoke will only
~ TWIST YOUR NICK.
Better pull ahead. The world Is full
people who made mistakes about msr
as things, and among other things about bt
is trothai and marriage, and yet have bee
" tolerably happy and very useful In II
ID strength of God, end by the grace proG
g. ised in every time Of need II those vi
is seek it conquer the disadvantsgeous ci
NJ cumstanees. am acquainted with love
10 " women married 20 contemplate me
ID and genial men yoked to termagsnts II
er spired of the devil. And yet under the
ID disadvantages my friends are useful o!
d. happy. God helps people Ia other kin
no of martyrdom and to sing in the fam
Is and He will help you In your hielol
d misfortune.
II Remember the patience of Job. Wh
ns g wife he had! 81 q time when be "
ut one great blotch OF eruptious, and
n property WAS destroyed by tornado sn
more than all, bereavement had come s.
no the poor man needed ali wise couns
Iu she advises him to go to cursing a
~ swearing. She wanted him to poulti
rs his boils with blss2hemy. But he liv
I'll right on through his marital disEdVal
ge ages, recovered his health and his II
he tune and raised splendid family, and
e. closing paragraph of the book OF Job
of such q iubilance that wonder people
en- not oftener read 1t:
ed $50 the Lord blessed the lstter end
hiS hoUinniuG. for he h