West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-01-26

comes in a man with nothing but money. un-
less you count profanity and selflshness and
iondneSs for champagne and general reck-
! IcsSneSs as part OF his possession. He has his
coat collar turned up when there is no chill
in the air but because IL gives him an air of
| abandon, and eyeglaSs, not because he IL near
| sighted but because IL gives n classical APP
| pearance, and with an attire somewhat loud
| a cane thick enough 90 be the club OF Hercules
and clutchet NJ the mid lie, his conversation
/ interlarded with French phrases inaccuratciy
/ pronounced, and n sweep OF manner indicat
Z ing that he was not born like most folks, but
terrestrially landed. BY arts learned OF tho
I devil he insinuates himself into the affec-
l tions Of the daughter OF that Christian home
| All the kindred congratulate her on the al
| most supernatural prospects Reports come in
/ that tho young man is fast in his habits that
/ lac has broken several young hearts, and that
| no is mean and selfish and cruel But all
! this is covered up with the fact that be has
! several houses in his own name, and has
! large deposits at the bank, and more than
all, has a father worth many hundred thou.
| sand dollars, and very feeble i'm health, and
may any day drop Off, and this is tho only
! son, and n round dollar held close TO ones
| eve IS large enough 30 shut out great desert,
ana now much more will several bushels OF
| dollars shut out
The marriage day comes and goes. Tho
/ wedding ring was costly enough, an d the
/ orange blossoms fragrant enough, anC the
! benediction solemn enough. and the we1d ing
march stirring enough. And the audel'ce
/ shed tears of symgathetic glndncss suppOsin9
| that tho craft containing the two has sailed
| of on a placid lake, although God knows
/ that they are launched on Dead Sea- its
| waters brackish with tears and CHASTITY with
/ CHASTITY faces of despair floating 10 the surface
, and then going down There they are, the
| newly married pair i'm their new home He
/ turns out TO be a tyrant. Her will is moth
/ my, 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 i'm her former home, now there are
complaints and fault findings and curse $. He
Is tho master and she the slave. Tho worst
villain on earth is the man who, I'm wing
captured woman from her fathers hone
and after the oath Of the marriage altar hb
been pronounced, says, by his manner if no.
in words: 81 have YOU now in my power.
/ What can you dot My arm is stronger than
yours. My voice is louder than yours. My
fortune is greater than yours. My name is
/ mghtier 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 wretchn Can
| halls Of mo1sic, can long lines of Etruscan
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 Colo and Crop
sey, could flutes played on by an Ole Bull
/ or pianos fingered by Gottschall, solos
/ warbled by a Sonntag, could wardrobes like
that of Marie Antoinette, could Jewels like
those of a Eugene make wife in such
coInpanonship happyl
A
are the chains of n lifelong servtude. There
is sword over her every feast, not like that
OF Damocles, staying suspended but drop
ping through her laceratcd 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
stringed and wind instrument: "Woe
Woep The oxen and sheep in Olden times
brought TO the temple of Jupiter Co be sacrf-
feed used to be covered with ribbons and
flowers, ribbons on the horns and flowers on
the neck. But the floral and ribboned decora-
tions did not make the stab of the butchers
knife less deathfu and all the chandeliers
Won Rang over such woman, and all the
robes with which you euwrap her, and all
the ribbons with which you adorn her. and
all the bewitching charms with which you
embnnk her footsteps are the ribbons and
flowers of a horrible butchery.
As to show how wretched good woman
MAJ be in splendid surroundings, we have two
cent 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 a cabinet
set with gems that cost s., sos, 600, and the
walls of it bloom with Rembrandts and
Claudes and PouSslnS and Guidos and Raph-
aels, 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 kennels nFrom 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 duCai country seats!
They on large scale Illustrate what on a
ffnrs cool.
that without moral character in a husband
all the accessories Of wealth are to a wifes
soul tantalization and mockeTy. When Adj
1 gail finds Nabal, her husband, beastly drunk
as she comes home from interceding for his
fortune and life, it was no alienation that
! / the old brute had possessions in Carmel, and
twas very great, and had three thousand
sheep, and a thousand goats and he the
worst goat among them. The animal in his
nature seized the soul in its mouth and ran
of with il.
Before things are right in this world gen
tee villains are 10 bc expurgated. Instead
Of icing welcomed into respectable society
| because Of the amount OF stars and carriers
and medals and estates they represent, they
ought 10 be fumgated two or three years be-
fore they nre allowed without peril to them
. selves TO put their hand on the door knob Of
q moral house. The time has come when q
, I masculine estray viii be as repugnant 20 good
society as feminine estray, and no coat OF
/ arms or family embia2Oury or ep9u!et can
, I pass a LothariO unChaileuged among the
sanctities OF home life. By what Law Of God
Z or common sense Us an Ab+alOm better than a
ueiilah, n Don Juan better than a Messaliuai
Tho brush that paints the one black must
( ! paint the other black. But what a spectacle
20 was when last summer much Of watering
place. society went wild with enthusiasm
over an unclean- foreign digntary, whose
name in both hemisphercs is a synonym for
prohigacy, and priuccsses Of American society
from an parts of the land had him ride i'm
their carriages and sit ot their tables, though
they knew him 10 be- portable lazaretto
Charnel house ot moral putrcfactiOn. his
breath "a typhoid his foot that OF "a Satyr,
and bis touch death. Here is an evil that
men cannot stop but women may. Keep all
such out of your p1riOrs, have no reCOgniti on
2 FOR them in the street. and no more think Of
aIyiug your Tie AMI destiny with theirs than
. gales from Araby" would consent GO pass
tns honeymoon with an Egypf4n plague
r AIl chat money or social position "a bad man
i brings 20 woman iu marriage isl splendid
: despair. o. gIllei horror. brilliant agony. r.
prolonged death. and The longer Tho marital
union lasts tho more evident win De the fact
tn1I .ha might tefter never have hoen born.
b ~ you aud have been nf brill liant weddings,
3 . whore. before Che feast was over the bride
b . groom Tongue wHs thick and h.s Dyes CLASSY,
ard Dos step riaZgfr as Doe clicked glasses
% with jolly comrades afI going with lightning
p limited eErro train iD The fatal crash over
NJ ile euhouau nt ~ ruined Ife aud "a lot