The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1888-01-26

church
homes.
Mo,t Of
m nrnt Wpr
who reyeren i..t
what do sa. i, Il Be
ing but social, % .o' .s, 3 i.i.
sources, a woman vi ~ b tr ti.et
by marriage IN his ha 10 rac- lhe tut d.
of Abigail when she .p,'-,pt 4 ..i-J-rea.
NabAl, "Whose possessions were b. trluei
and the man wAs very great. and he hut
three thousand sheep and ,Holsaa
goats"
The marriage day comes and goes. Tue
wedding RINK was costly enough and the
grange blossoms fragrant enou h and he
benediction solemn enough and the wed
ding march stirring enough. AMI the au-
dienoe shed tears OF sympathetic gladnesS,
suppOaing that the craft containing the two
has aailed or on placid lake, although
God knows that they are launched on .
Dead sea, its waters brackish with tears
and ghassly with ghsstly faces Of despair
floating 10 tho surface and then going down.
There they are, the newly-married pair in
their new home. He turns out TO be u
tyrans. Her will is nothing, his will every
thing. Lavish Of money for his own pleas
ure, he begrudges her the pennies he
pinches out into her trembling palm. In
stead 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 viii
lain on earth is the man who, having, cap
tured n woman from her fathers house and
after the oath of the marriage altar has been
pronounced. says, by his manner if not in
words: u have you now in my power.
" hat can you do? My arm is stronger
than yours. My voice is louder than yours.
NV fortune is greater than yours. My name
is mightier than yours. Now crouch before
me like log. Now crawl away from me
like q reptile. You are nothing but We
man, anyhow. Down, you miserable
wretch" Can halls Of mosaic, can long
lines OF Etruscan bronze, or statuary by
POlmers and Powers and Crawford and
Chantry and Canova, can galleries rich
from the pencil of Bierstadt and Church
and Kenset and Cole and Cropsey, could
huEes played on by an Ole Bull or pianos
fingered by GottsChalk, or solos warbled
by Sonntag, could wardrobes like that Of
Marie Antoinette, could jewels like those
of Eugenie make a wife III such COM
panionship happy?
Imprisoned in castle! Her gold Brace
let's are the chains of lifelong servitude.
There is a sword over her every feast, ne'
like that of Damocles, staying suspended
but dropping through her lacerated heart
Her wardrobe is full of shrouds for deatht
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 cor
ridors and weeps in the falling fountains
aud echoes in the shutting of every door
and groans in every note of stlinged and
wind instrument: "Woe! Woe" The oxen
and sheep in olden times brought to the
temple Of Jupiter to be sacrificed used 10 be
covered with ribbons and fowers-Fibbons
on the horns ard flowers on the neck. But
| the floral and ribboned decorations did not
| make the stab Of the butchers knife less
deathful, and all the chandeliers yen hang
over such a woman, and all the robes with
which you enwrap her, and all the ribbons
with which YOU adorn her, and all the be-
Mitching charms with which you emhank
her footsteps are the ribbons and flowers
Of horrible butchery.
As if 10 show how wretched q good
woman may be in splendid surroundings
| we have two recent illustrations, two ducal
| palaces in Great Britain. They are The
| focus of the best things that are possible
| in art, in literature, in architecture, the
accumulation of other estates until their
, wealth is beyond calculation and theiI
J grandeur beyond description. One of the
. castles has cabinet set with gems that
cost S2,50N, 200, and the wal of ii bloom
with Rembrnndts and Claudes and Poussins
and Guides and Raphaels, and there are
! Southdown hocks in summer grazing on
its lawns. and Arab steeds prancing at the
dOorways on the first open day at the ken
nels." From the one castle the duchess
| has removed with her children because she
can no longer endure the orgies Of hel
husband, the duke, and in the other cas- lie
I the duchess remains confronted by insultG
aud abominations in the presence of which
| 10 not think God or decent society re-
quires good woman 10 remain. Alas fol-
those ducal country seats They on a
large scale illustrate what on a smaller
scale may be seen in many places-that
without moral character in husband all
the accessories of wealth are to a wife's
soul tantalzation and mOckery. When
Abigail finds Nabal, her husband, beastly
drunk, as she comes home from inter-
ceding for his fortune and life, il was nc
aIleviatioE that the old brute had possess
sions in Carmel, and "was very great
and had three Thousand sheep and thou.
sand goats" and he the worst goat among
them. I he animal in his nature seized
the soul in its mouth and ran off with il.
Before things are right in this worlJ
genteel villains are to be expurRated. IN
stead of being welcomed into respectable
society, because Of the amount of start
aud garters and medals and estates they
represent, they ought to be fumigated two
or three years before they are allowed
without peril TO themselves, TO put theil
hands on the door knob of moral house
The time must come when a masculine
estray will be as repugnant to good society
as feminine estray, and no coat of ARM
or family emblaZonry or epaulet can past
a Lothario unchallenged among the sancti.
ties of home life. BY what law of God o.
common sense is an Absalom better thar
Delilah, a Don Juan better than Mesa.
Ina? The brush that paints the one blacJ
must paint the other black. But what
spectacle it was vhen last summer much o.
watering place" society went wild with
enthusiasm over an unclean foreign digni.
tary, whose name in both hemispheres il
synonym for protiigacy, and princesset
of American society from all parts of the
land had him ride in their Carriages anC
sit at their tables, though they knew him
to be portable lazaretto, charnel house
of moral putrefaction, mis- breath ty.
phoid, his foot that Of Satyr, and his
'ouch death. Here is an evil that meI
cHunOt stop, nue women may. Keep al
such out Of Your parlors, have no recogni.
ton for them in the street, and no more
think of allying your life and destiny with
uieirs than gales from Araby" would con-
sent to pass the honeymoon with az
Egyptian plague. All that money or socit.
position bad man brings to woman "
marriage is splendid despair, e gilded
horror, brilliant agony, a prolonged
death, and the longer the marital union
lasts, the mora evident will be the fact
! thnt she MIGHT better neyer have been