The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-01-26

pan cd by aiiluent circumstances, congrutu-
late you. If not, let the morning lark fly
,lear OF the Rocky Mountain eigle The sac,
rfice Of wofdah oh tile altar Of social and
| financial expectation is cruel and stupendous.
sketch You scene vou -, ,,,,,- .,,,,; ~.
once witne'sH@, -. "A comfortable home with
I norhing nero than ordinary surroundings,
but an lttractivn da,tghtef eArefi!,ly aid
Christianly reared. From the outside world
comes in a man with nothing but money ,un-
less you count profanity and selllshnes and
| fondness for champagne and general reck-
lessness as part of his po session. He has his
] coat collar turned up when thera is no chill
| IN the ar but tecau,e u gives him dH air Of
l abandon, and eyeglass, not because he is near
sighted but because it gives a classical ap-
| Deararce, and with nm attire som,wh7t load,
| cane thick enough to be the cub OF Hercules
and clutchei at the mid lie, his conversation
4 inter,arded with French phrases inaccurately
| pronounced and sweep Of manner indicat-
ing that he was not born like most folks but
| terrestrially landed BY arts learned OF the
devil he insinuatcs himself in'o, tie affec.
tions Of the daughtet of That hllstian h6md
All the kindred congratulate her OH the al
most supernatural prospects Repor:s come in
that the young man is fast in h 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 fact that he has
| several houses in his own name, and has
large deposits at the bank, and moro than
| all, has a fat.er worth many hundred thou
sand dollars and very feeble in health, and
may any day drop off, and this is the only
son, and n round dollar held close to ones
eye is large enough to shut out great DESERT
and how much more will several bushels Of
dollars shut pitt 49,
The marriage day comes AMI goes. The
wedding ring was costly enough, and the
0rarge blossoms fragrant enough, and the
bsnediction solemn enough and the wedding
march stirring enough And the audience
shed tears of .sympathetic gladness, supposing
that the craft containing the two has sailed
Off on a placid lake, although God knows
that they are launched on a Dead Sea, its
| waters brackish with tears and CHASTITY with
ghastly faces of despair floating to the surface
and then going down. There they are, the
| newly mdffled pair in their new home. He
| turns out to be tyrant. Her will is moth
Ing, his will everything. Lavish of money
for his own pleasure, he begrudges her the
| pennies he pinches out into her trembling
palm. Instead Of the kind words she left
behind iii 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 woman from her fathers home
and after the oath of the marriage altar has
IN wufds: "l have YOU fiow in my power
What can you do! My arm is stronger than
yours. NY voice is louder than yours My
fortune is greater than yours. My name is
mightier than yours Now crouch before me
| like dog. Now crawl away from me like
reptile. You are nothing but woman, any
how. Down, you miserable wretch" Can
halls Of rnoasic, can long lines OF Etflscan
bronze, or statuary by Palmer and Powers
and Crawford and Chantry and Canova, can
| galleries rich from the pencil of Bierstadt
and Church and Kenset and Cole and Crop
sey, could flutes played on by an Ole Bull
or pianos fingered by a Gottschalk, or solos
warbled by a Sonntas, could wardrobes like
that OF Marie Antoinette, could jewels like
those Of a Eugenie make wife in such
eempahionship happyl
Imprisoned in castle! Her gold bracelets
are the chains Of a lifelong servitude. There
is a sword over her every feast, not like that
of Damoc!es staying suspended, but drop
| ping through her lacerated 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 Of
Woe!" The oxen and sheep in olden times
brought to the temple of Jupiter to be sacri-
feed use1 to be covered with ribbons and
flowers, ribbons on the horns and flowers on
the neck. But the floral and riaboned decora-
! tions did not make the stab of the butchers
knife less deathful, and all the chandeliers
| you lang over such woman, and all the
robes with which you enwrap her, and all
the ribbons with which you adorn her, and
| oil the bewitching charms with which you
embank her footsteps are the ribbons and
flowers of horrible butchery.
| As to show how wretched a 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 litera-
| ture, in architecture-the accumulation of
other estates, until their wealth is beyond
calculation and their grandeur beyond de.
| scription. One of the castles has cabinet
| set with gems that cost 81, 500, ,G0o, and the
! walls of it bloom with Rembrandts and
Claudes and Poussins and Gudos and Raph.
aes, and there are Southdown focks in
summer grazing on its lawns and Arab steeds
prancing at the doorways on the first open
day at the kennels "From the one castle the
duchess 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-
| fronted by insults and denominations in the
presence of which do not think God or de-
cent society requires a good woman to re-
main. Alas for those ducal country seats!
They on largo 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 wifes
soul tantalization and mockery. When Abb
gail finds Nabal, her husband, beastly drunk,
| as she comes home from intcrceding for his
fortune and life, it was no alienation that
tho old brute had possessions in Carmel, and
| twas very great, and had three thousand
sheep, and thousand goats" and he the
worst goat among them. The animal in his
nature seized the soul i'll its mouth and ran
off with it.
Before things are right in this world gen
teel villains are to be expurgated: Instead
of being welcomed into respectable society
because of the amount of stars and garters
and medals and estates they represent they
ought to be fumigated two or three years be-
fore they are allowed without peril to them
selves to put their hand on the door knob of
moral house. he time has come when
masculine estray will be as repugnant to good
society as feminine estray, and no coat OF
arms or family embazonry or epaulet can
pass a Lothario unchallenged among the
sanctities of home life. BY what law of God
or common sense is an Absalom better than
Delah Don Juan better than q Messalina!
The brush that paints the one black must
paint the other black. But what spectacle
it was when last summer much of watering
place. society went wild with enthusiasm
over an unclean foreign digntars whose
name in both hemispheres is synonym for
| prOnlgacy, ana prlnceSSeS OF American Soclets
from all parts of the land had him ride in
their carriages and sit at their tables, though
they knew him to be portable lazaretto, a
charnel house of moral putrefaction, his
breath typhoid, his foot that of Satyr,
and his touch death. Here is an evil that
men cannot stop but women may. Keep all
such out of your parlors, have no recogniti on
for them in the street. and no more think Of
allying your life and destiny with theirs than
gales from Arabyn 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 splendid
despair, gilied horror, brilliant agony, a
prolonged DEATH and the longer the marital
union last, tho more evident will be the fact
that she might better never have heen born.
Yet you and II have been at brilliant weddings,
where, before the feast was over ths bride
groom's tongue was thick, and his eyes CLASSY
and his step a stagger as he clicked glasses
with jolly comrades. ail going with lightning
limited express train to the fatal crash over
the embankment of ruined life and lost
eternity.
Woman, join 10. your right hani with
such right hand, Accept from such one
| no Jewel for finger or ear lest the sDlrkie of