, 1888-03-17

hang around hotels, and engine houses,
and theatre doors, and come in ana out to
bother busy clerks, and merchants, and
mechanics, doing nothing even when there
is plenty to do? They are men supported
by their wives and mothers. Ifthe Stats
tics of any of our cities could be taken on
this subject you would find that a vast
multitude of women nOtOnly support them.
selves but masculines. A great legion Of
men amount to nothing, and a woman by
marriage manacled to one of these nOuen-
titles needs coincidence. A woman stand
ing outside the marriage relation is many
thousand times better off than a woman
badly married. Many a bride, instead, Of
a wreath of orange blossoms, might more
properly wear a bunch OF nettleS and
magistrates, and instead of the Wedding
March a more appropriate tune would be
the Dead March in Saul, and instead Of q
banquet of confectionery and ices there
might be more appropriately spread Il
table covered with apples of SOdOm, which
are outside fair and inside ashes.
Many an attractive woman by good sound
sense in other things has married one of
these men to reform him. What was the
result 7 Like when a dove noticing that u
vulture was rapaciouS and cruel set about
to reform it, and said II have a mild
disposition, and | like peace, aud was
brought up in the quiet Of a dove cote and
l will bring the vulture to the same liking
by marrying him " So, one day after the
vulture had declared he would give up his
carnivOrOuS habits and cease longing for
blood OF flock and herd, at an altar OF rock
covered with moss and lichen the twain
were married, a baldheaded eagle %ot1iciat-
ing, the vulture saying, ''Fitll all my
dominion of earth and sky | thee endow,
and promise to love and cherish till death
do us part" But one day the dove in her
flight saw the vulture busy at II carcass
and cried, Stop that ! did you not pro
mise me that You would quit your carni-
v0rOuS and filthy habits ii | married you ~
eyes" said the %vulture, but if you don't
like my way You can leave and with one
angry stroke of beak and another fierce
clutch of claw the vulturr left the dove
cyeleSs and wingless and ~IileltSs. Aud il
flock of robins flying past cried to each
other aud said, See there. that comes
from II doves marrying a|vulture to reform
him.
Many a woman who has had the hand of
a Young inebrilte offered but declined it,
or who was asked to chain her lite to a
man selfish or of bad temper and refused
the shackles, will bless Col throughout
all eternity that she escaped that earthly
P~andemOnlum.
Besides all this, in our country about
one million men were sacrificed in our
civil war, and that decreed a million wO.
men to celibacy. Besides that, since rhe
war, several armies of men as large rs the
federal and confederate armies put tOgeth-
er have fallen under malt liquors and
distilled spirits SO full Of poisoned iugre-
dents that the work was done more rapid
ly, and the victims fell while yet young.
And if fifty thousand men are destroyed
every year by strong drink before mar
riage, that makes in the tWenty-three years
since the war one million one hundred and
fifty thousand men slain and DEGREES one
million one hundred and fifty thousand
women to celibacy. Take, then, the fact
that so many women are unhappy in their
marriage, and the fact hat the slaughter
of two million one hundred aud fifty thou
sand men by war and rum combined de
cideS that at least that number of women
shall be unbalanced for life, my text
in with a cheer and a potency and appro.
priateness that | never saw in it before,
when it says. every wise woman build
eth her house'-that is, let woman be her
own architect, lay out her own plans,
be her own supervisor, achieve her own
destiny.
In addressing these m who will
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