News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-02-02
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All the kindred congratulate her on the al
most suspeTnatursl prospects. Reports come IN
that the young man is fast in his habits; That
he has broken several young hearts, and that
he is mean and selfish and cruel But all
this is covered up with the fat that he has
several houses IN his own name, and has
large deposits at the bank; and more than
all has father worth many hundred thou
sand dollars, and very feeble in health, and
may any day drop off, and this is the only
son and a round dollar held close to ones
eve is large enough to shut out great DESERT
and how much more will several bushels OF
dollars shut out. ~
The marriage day comes and gees. The
wedding ring was costly enough, ana thS
orange blossoms fragrant enough, ana the
benediction solemn enough; and the weddHS
march stirring enough. And the audience
shed tears of sym- -athetic gladness, Supposing
that the craft containing the two has sailed
off on a placid lake, although God knows
that they are launched on Dead Sea, us
waters brackish with tears and CHASTITY with
CHASTITY faces of despair floating to the surface
and then going down. There they are, the
newly married pair in their new h6nte: He
turns out to be a tyrant. Her will IS noth-
ing, his will everything. Lavish OF money
for his own pleasure, he begrudges her the
pennies he pinches out into her trembling
pclm. Instead of the kind words she left
behind in her former home, now there are
complaints and fault findings and curses. He
is the master and she the slave. The worst
villain on earth is the man who, having
captured a woman from her fathers home
and after the oath of the marriage altar has
been pronounced, says, by his manner If not
in words: 81 have YOU now in my power
What can you do? Ny arm is stronger than
yours. My voice is louder than yours. My
fortune is greater than yours. My name is
might;er than YOURS Now crouch efore me
Ike dog Now crawl away from me like
reptile. You are nothing Lut a woman, any
how. Down, you miserable wretch" Can
halls of mo lsic, can long lines of Etruscan
bronze or statuary by Palmer and Powers
and Crawford and Chantry and Canova, can
galleries rich from the pencil of Blerstadt
and Church and Kenset and Cole and Crop
sey, could flutes played on by an Ole Bull
or pianos fingered by Gottschalk, or solos
warbIed by Sonntag, could wardrobes like
that of a Marie Antoinette, could jewels like
those of q Eugenie make wife III such
companonship happy?
Iniprisoned In CASTLE Her gold bracelets
are the chains of q lifelong servitude. There
is a sword over her every feast, not like that
of DaI1Oc.ES, staying suspended, but drop
ming through her Iacerated heart. Her ward
robe is full of shrouds for deaths Which she
dies daily, and she is buried alive, though
buried under gorgeous upholstery. There Is
one word that sounds under the arches and
rolls along the corridors, and weeps IN the
falling fountains, and echoes IN the shutting
of every door, and groans in every note CT
stringe1 and wind instrument; Woe!
Woen' The oxen and sheep in oldeE simes
brought to the temple of Jupiter to be sacri-
feed usel to be covered with ribbons and
flowers ribbons on the horns and flowers on
the neck But the floral and ri5boned decora-
tions did not make the stab of the butcher S
knife less deathfu, and all the chandeliers
Won ang over such woman, and all the
robes with which you enwrap her, and all
the ribbons with which you adorn her, am
all the bewitching charms with which you
NH
flowers of horrible butcheIy
As to show how wretched a good woman
NAV be In splendid surroundings, we nave Two
recent Illustrations two ducal palaces III
hest Things that are possible i'll art, in lltera.
tufa in architt cturG-the accumulation OF
other estates. until their wealth is beyond
calculation and their grandeur beyond oe-
scriptiCu. One Of the castles mas S5piIeC
set with gems that cost 81, 5OlGO), and phe
walls 5f il bloom with Rembrandts ana
ClTlides ahd Potissin and Guidos and Raph-
neIs, and there are SouthdoWn hocks IN
summer grazing on its lawns and Arab steeds
Drancing at the dOorways on the first open
| DIV at tba kennels nFrom the one castle the
! du hess has removed with her children be-
cause She can no longer endure the orgies
| of her husband, the duke, and IN the
| other castle the duchess remains con
| limited by insults and atominations in the
! presence of which | do not think God or de-
cent society requires good woman TO re-
main. Alas for those ducal country seats
! They on a large sca!e illustrate what on q
| smaller scale may be seen in many places,
that without moral character III husoan1
| soul tantalizatiln and mOckeTy. w hen ADJ
! gaiI finds Nabal her husband, beastly drunk,
| as she comes home from lntercedlng Tor MS
! fortune and lie, it was no alienation that
/ the old brute had possessions in Carmel, anu
| "yas very great, and had three thousand
sheep aud thousand goats, and ne the
worst goat among them. The animal III ms
nature seized the soul in its mouth and ran
off with it.
Before things are right in this world gen,
tcel villains are to be eXpurgated; IhsC5au hl
| of beng welcomed into respectable society
| be,ause of the amount of stars and carriers
| and medals and estates they represent, tney
| ought to BE- funIigatcd two or three years De
fore they are allowed without peril 10 tllehl.
| selves to put their hand on the door KNOB OF
| a moral house. The time has come When a
| mascu!ine sstray will be as repugnant 10 goo9
| society az a feminine estray, and no coat OF
| arms OF family embaZonry or epaueI can
| pass q Lothario unchallenged among the
sanctities OF home life. BY what law oi 80 uou
| Or common sense is an AbSalOm better than q
| nehlahi Don Juan better than Messallna: :
The brush that paints the one black must
paint the other black. But what spectacle
it was when last SUMMER mich OF watering
Dlacen society went wild with enthusiasm
name in both henlisphereS is synonym LOT
Drohigacy; and princeSSes of American society
from all parts of the land had him ride Ill
their carriages and sit at their tables, though
they knew him to be a portable laZaretto, a
charnel house of moral putretactlon, his
breath a typhoid, his foot that of Satyr,
and his touch death. Here Is an eYh IudC
men cannot stop but women may. Keep an an
such out of your pariOrS, nave no fecOgnlIi VI
fo1. them in the street, and no more thlnk OF
aIlying your life AMI destiny with theirs than
gales from Araby' would consent to pass
the HONEYMOON with an Egyptian plague
| All that money or social position bad man
brings to woman in marriage Is a splehdl'i
despair a gilded horror, brilliant agony,
prolonged death, and the longer the marital
union lasts the more evident will be the IacO
that she might better never nave beell I! Doln'
Vet Won and have been at brilliant Weddings,
where. before the feast was over. the prlde-
grooms tongue was thick, and his eyes CLASSY,
ard his step a stagger as he cllcked SiasseS
with Jolly comrades, all going with lghuhlhg
limited express train to the fatal crash over
tie enbankment of a ruined life and lost
eternity. -, ;.L
Woman. Join not your right hand with
such a right hand, Accept from such one
no level for finger or ear lest the sparkle OF
precious stone turn out to be the eve OF
basilisk, and let not the ring come on the
finger of your right hand lest that ring turn
out to be one link of chain that shah Olhu
you i'll never ending captivity. In the name
Of God and heaven and home, i'll the name OF
all time and all eternity | forbid the bans
| Consent not to Join one of the many reSl-
ments of women who have married for
! worldly success without regard TO moral
! character.
If YOU are ambitious oh woman, for noble
| affiancing, why not marry King: And TO
that honor YOU are invited by the monarch
of heaven and earth, and this day voice
| from the skies sounds forth: "As the bride
! Groom re :oiceth over the bride so shall thy
| God rejoice over thee Let Him put upon
! thee the ring of his royal marriage. Here Is
| an honor worth reaching after. BY repent
! auCe and faith you may come into a marriage
! with the emperor of universal DOMINION, anu
YOU may be an empress unto iod forever,
! and reign with him in palaces that the cen
turies cannot crumole nor canhohaues ue-
Hiph worldly marriage is not necessary for
woman or marriage of any kind In orier 10
vour happiness Cclibacy has been honored
bv the best being that over lived ana ms
! greatest apostle, Christ and PauL w NAT
higher honor could single life on earth nave
But what you need, oh woman, Is to be aul,
anced forever and forever, and the Dahus .,
that marriage | am this moment here ano
nov ready TO publish Let the angels oi
heaven bend from their galleries OF hght to
| witness while pronounce you one-a loVlng
| God and a forgiven soul. One OF the mos'
! stirring passages in history with which an
anIuainted tells us how Cleopatra, the eXlleo
queen of Egypt won the sYmLathles OF JuliuS
iNp5t'. tn co lIl 1r1t, UNI ne y 'Sa'h' ulio @
! Eri1erroCm and she the bride Driven iron
her throne, she sailed away on the Medlter
raneau sea in storm, and when the larg'
shin anchored sha put out with one womanlN
friend in sm9ll boat until she arrived a
Alexandria. where was Caesar, the great gen