Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-01-14
THIS Is A PARABLE.
A Little Story which Youths and Maad-
ems Can Probably Read.

From the London Queen
She was all his fancy painted her and q good
deal more. She was lovelier and more divine
than any Of the other daughters Of men.
looked for where you would from Maine 20
California. He set her on pedestal e. god
dess, and be worshiped her as IL she had been
the thing he fancied. Madly in love, he could
neither eat nor drink, nor yet sleep, for the
ardor OF his longing 10 make her his and HIS
only. The engagement was more agony than
bliss TO him, because il was not marriage and
the marriage was like mirage which never
seemed 70 come nearer-so slowly did time
imp on his way and 50 lengthy were the inter-
walls even when shortening.
Az last the glorious morning broke. and the
TWO lovers were man and wife. For a time,
here again the sweet illusion lasted. and the
world was seen through a silver veil; but NOT
Tor long. Beauty does not include reasonable
ness-youth 10 not necessarily good temper
TO be loved Is not the same as TO be wise. So
young Edwin found before the orange blos-
SONS IN Aneelinas bonnet had time 10 fade
He had married lovely face, a graceful figure,
an empty head and a soul reduced 20 its ele-
ments. and small at that. OF principle, 80 that
the right thing should be done even ut cost u
personal ACKNOWLEDGEMENT domestic qualities
such as make happy home, a respectable con-
dition and prosperous marriage had
not the yeriest shadow. She was thriftless.
idle, unthinking. grsceless. The servants kept
the house and she did not keep even the books.
EDWIN salary was OF the most rigid character
and the most restricted dimensions. but she let
the meal run out OF the sack and the ale out OF
the barrel and did not attempt TO stop the
waste. She was always beautiful and always
daintily attired. In bed for half the day she
was the most exquisite production of art and
nature for the other halt
But her loneliness at last became a drug in
the domestic market which Edwin would
willingly have bartered for a humpback and a
hnsey woolsey gown. added to the working
qualities Of a good housekeeper. who kept the
expenses within his income and made the home
both honorable and homelike With debt,
squalor, extravaganza and disorder the degra-
dation was rs certain as that throne will fall
when the lion-legs are rotten. He had been
cursed with his wish and the blight was severe.
Angelina's vices grew daily worse, and his
temper followed suit; while his finances shrunk
and shrunk. At last the inevitable catastrophe
came to pass and bankruptcy. followed by
separation, landed him into desolation and the
useless regrets OF repentance. He is now
poorer man, a sadder and no doubt so far a
wiser. to-day than he was on that merry bridal
morn OF May, when he married his adored and
thought he had forced the gates Of Paradise
once and forever and had built him for life an
enduring tabernacle among its flowers and
Towering bushes. He has learnt by terrible
experience that man does not always know
what Is best for him, and that even the sickness
of love had. sometimes better endure unhealed
than be cured for time and eternity by the
caustic Of matrimony.