The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-01-17

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clans short. Yes Godlinass is profitable for
| both worlds. Most of the great honest perma-
nent worldly successes are by those who roVer-
ence God and the Bible. But what | do say
Is that II a man have nothing but social posi-
ton and financial resources Il woman who
/ puts her happiness by marriage in his hand re
enactS the folly of Abigail when she accepted
/ disagrceahle Nahal, 'Whose possessions were
/ in Carmel; and the man was very great,
/ and he had three thousand sheep, and n thOus-
/ and goats" Ii there be coed moral character
accompanied by alduent circumstances l con
/ graduate you ii not, let tho morning lark
fly clear Of the Rocky mountain eagle
/ The sacrifice OF woman on the
altar OF social and financial oX-
/ pectauon Is cruel and stupendous' ! sketch
/ you scene You nave more imam once witness
/ ca. \ comIoriabie nome win nothing more
! man ordinary sur[oNhdi49S, bHI an atit3eliEe
/ qluGhiyf carcltdIE ana ChHStahly reared
1 rom INC OUTSIDE WQrI4 comes III man "!th
/ notiuhg put money, unless you count profanity
/ ana seIhshness and ionGheaS Ior
/ champagne ana general rccIeSsnesS as a part
| q ms pessession' lie mas ms coat collar tuih-
/ eo up Whch l9eie Is no emu IN t4e ar DHV De-
| cause IL gives hhn an an OF aodnuon' ana eye
/ glasses, NOT because ne IS near-SlShJod' put pc
cause II gFcs classical ,appearanGe' ana WIN
/ an attire somewhat loud, cane thick enough
! to be the club OF Hercules and clutehed at the
| middle, ms conversation lnlerlafdcd win
/ trehch phrases lhaccuiaielY pronounced ana
! sweep oil manner indicating tharhe was NOT
| ny arts learned 81 the uCNI ne hSluAteS h!n-
| sci INTO tue ailoctouS OF the daughter ,ol (hat
/ thuSUah nome. All the klndtcd congratulate
/ her ON the almost supernatural prospects. Ee-
! ports come IN mat the young man Is last IN
MS AaDllS; luat ne mas DIoNCh several young
hearts, and that ne is mean and selfish and
/ cruel But all TINS IS covered up with the TACT
/ 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
J n,
| and may any day drop Oil, and this IS the only
| son, and round dollar held close to ones
! eye Is large enough to shut out a
! great desert, ana how much more
Will several bushels OF dollars shut out.
The marriage day comes and goes. The
| wedding ring was costly enough and the orange
| blossoms fragrant enough and the henediCtion
solemn enough and the wedding march Stir
ring enough. And the audience shed tears of
sympathetic gladness, supposing that the craft
containing the two has sailed off ON placid
| lake. although God knows that they are
| launched on Dead Sea- Its waters DracklSh
| with tears and CHASTITY with CHASTITY faces of
! despair floating to the surface and then going
! down, There they are, the ncWymarrled
! pair in their new home. lie turns out to
| be a tyrant Her Will Is nothing, his
| will everything. Lavish OF money for
| his own pleasure, he begrudgeS her the pen
| MES he pinChCS out into her trembling palm.
| Instead OF the kind words she lett behind III
| her former home, now there are complaints
and fault findings and curses. He is the mas
/ ter and she the slave. The worst villain on
earth is the man who, having captured WO-
man from her fathers house, and after the
oath the marriage altar has been pronounced,
says, by his manner IL not in words: 81 have
/ you now in my power. Vi hat can you d01
! My arm is stronger than yours. My voice is
! louder than yours. My fortune is greater than
| yours. My name is mighter than yours. Now
crouch before me ike n dog. Now crawl away
/ from mo like q reptile Your are nothing
but woman anyhow Down, you miserable
/ WrCtCh!" Can halls OF mosaic, can long lines
| OF ctrusCan bronze, or Statuary by Palmer and
| Powers and Crawford and Chantry and CanO-
| va, can galleries rich from the pencil of Bier
stadt and Church and Kensct and Cole and
! Cropsey, could flutes played on by an Ole Bull
or pianos fingered by GottSchalI, or solos
! warbled by Sonntag, could wardrobes like
| that of a Marie Antonctte, could Jewels like
| those of Eugene make Il wife i'll such a COM
paniOnship happy?
Imprsoned in a castle her gold bracelets arc
the Chains of lifelong serVitude. There is o
| sword over her every feast. not like that of
! Damoclcs STAYING suspended, but dropping
through her lacerated heart Her wardrobe 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 roofs along tho
corridors, and weeps in the falling fountains,
and echoes in the shutting of every door, and
| grOans in every note of stringed and wind in
| strument: "Woe! Wool" The oxen and
sheep in olden times broughtto the temple of
| Jupiter to be sacrificed used to be covered
| with ribbons and flowers, ribbons on the horns
| and flowers on the neck. But the floral and
| ribboned decoration did not make the stab of
| the butchers knife less beautiful. and all the
| chandeliers YOU hang over such q woman and
all the robes with which you enwrap her and
| all horibbons with which You adorn her, and
| all the beWitching charms with which you
embank her footsteps are the ribbons and
| flowers Of horrible butchery.
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