Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-01-23

mystery is solved.
J.ckson's Hollow, Brooklyn, was part
Of the city not built on for many years,
and every time crossed it said to my
self Or TO others, why is not this land
built oE? found out after ward that the |
title to the land was in controversy and
no one wanted to build there until that
question was decided. Afterwerd l IN
deratood the title was settled and now
buildings are going up all over it. DO
not build your happiness for this Worlo !
on & character, masculine or FEMININE, |
that mas not settled and undisputed |
title to
HONOR AND TRUTH
and sobriety and kindness and right |
eousness.
0 woman, you haye more neeo TO pause |
before making such an important prom /
Use than man, because If you make mis-
take 1t is worse for you. II man blum |
der about promise of parrisge or go on |
to an unfortunate marriage, he can spend |
his evenings away, and can go to the
club or the Republican or Democratic
headquarters, and absorb his mind in
city or state or national elections, or
smoke himself stupid or drink himself
drunk. But there is no place OF
regular retreat for you, o woman, ana
you could not take narcotics or 1ntox- |
icants and keep your responsibility. Be-
fore you promise, pray and think ana
study ard advise. There shall never
again IN your earthly history be lime
when YOU SO much need God.
1t seems to me that the world ought to
cast cut from business credits and from
good neighoorhood those who boast
| Of the number of hearts they have
won, as the Indian boasts Of the number
| of scalps he has taken. Ii man will lie
| to = woman and d woman will lie TO
man about so important matter IS that
OF lifetime's welfare, they will lie about
a bill of goods and lie about finances and
lie about anything, Society to-day Is full
of gallants and -milliners and carpet
knights and coQuettes and those most
! God -forsakep of I'll Wretches-fllrts. And
they go about drsWing-rooms and the
parlors of watering places, simperlng ana
blWlng and scraping and whispering, and
then return to the club rooms il they be
men, or to their special gatherings II they
be women, to chatter and giggle over Whist
was lsaid to them in confidence. Condlgn
punishment is apt to come upon them and
they get paid in their own coin. could
point you to score whom society has let
drop very hard in return for their base
Jraffi; in human hearts. AS to such men
thew walk around in their celibaCY, after
their hair is streaked with gray, and pre-
tending they are naturally short-sighted
when their eyes are so old in sin that they
need the spectacles Of 8 septuagenarian,
an eyeglass about No. s, and think they
are bewitching in their stride and over
powering in their chances, although they
are simply laughing stocks for all mau-
kind. And if these base dealers in human
hearts be females, they are left after
while severely alone, striving in very
desperation of sgonY OF cosmetics to get
back to the attractiveness 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, 0 woman, having
} plighted Jour troth stick to it! And
, here my idea widens and l have TO say
, nou only to those who have made mis-
, take in solemn promise OF marriage, but
, TO those who have already at the altar
been pronounced enc when they are TWO,
, or in diversity CT tastes and likes and
i
. doz n-mske the best you can OF en- swful
s mistake. And here let me answer letters
A that come from every state of the Ameri-
, can union, and from across the Sea, and
), are coming year after year from men and
!, women who are terrifcally allianced and
tied together in hard knot, very hard
4 knot. The letters run something like this
e "What ought to DO, my husband Is
/, drunkard?" "My wife is gsd-abou'
n and will not stay at home" "My com
n panion is ignorant and hates books and
\ reyel In them" 81 like music and q
piano sets my husband crazy" "I an
t fond of socisl life and my companion is
e reclusen ~ am trying to be good ane
+, my lifelong associate is very bad. Wha
|. shsll dor" My answer is, there ar
= / certain good reasons for enforcement
II The Bible recognizes them. Good socle
= ty recognizes them. But it must be TIL
p, very last resort, and only sitter all reason
"a sble attempts st reclamation and ADJUST
\ ment have proved q dead failure. Whel
r such attempts fail it is generally becaus
If of neddlesome outsiders, and women tel
"a the wronged wife how she ought to stan
On her rights, and men tell the wronge
is husband how he ought to stand on hi
a. rights. And let husband and wife in g.
e. unhappy marrisge relation stand punctll
or lousy on their rights, and there will b
no REIMBURSEMENT, and only one thing vi
be sure 10 them and that is hell
pc esrth.
10 If you ore unhsppily married, in mos
n cases l advise you, make the best you C.
- of an awfully bad bargain. Do not projet
~ YOUR peculiarities more than Is necessary
% Perhaps you may have some faults of you
=. own which the other party in ID
-, marital alliance may have to suffer. 70
- are in the same yoke. If you pull asid
az the yoke will only
- TWIST YOUR NECK.
d. Better pull ahead. The world Is full
no people who made mistakes about mar
ts things, and among other things about bs
d. trothal and marrisee, and yet have bee
III tolerably happy and very useful in II
us strength of God, and by the grace prom
ot ised in every time of need If those WI
D. seek it conquer the disadvantsgeous Gil
e. cumstances. l am acquainted with love
nd ly women married 10 contemplate me-
M and genial men yoked to termsgants IL
lift spired of the devil. And yet under the
;es disadvantages ny friends are useful al
all happy. God helps people in other kint
ge of martyrdom and to sing in the fam
he and He will help you in your i!eloi