The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1889-07-19
THIS IS A PARABLE.
A Little Story Which Youths and Maid
ems Can Probably Read.

She was all his fancy painted her,
and good deal more. She was
lovlier and more divine than any
of The other daughters of man,
looked for where you would, from
Maine 10 California. He sci her
on a pedestal as goddess, and he
worshiped her as ii she had been
the thing he fancied. Madly in
love, he could neither eat nor drink,
nor vet sleep, tor The ardor OF his
longing 10 make her his and ms
only. The engagement was more
agony than bliss TO him because it
was not marriage, and the marriage
was like mirage which never
seemed TO come nearer-so slowly
did Time limp Oh his way and SO
lengthy were the intervals even
when shortening.
At last The glorious morning
broke, and the two lovers were
man and wife. For a time, here
again the sweet atlusion lasted,
and The world was seen through a
silver veil /; but not for long. Beau
ty does not include reasonableness;
youth is not necessarily good tenn
per-to be loved is not the same as
to be wise. So young Edwin found
before the orange blossoms in An
gelina's bonnet had had time TO
fade. He had married lovely
face, graceful figure, an empty
head and soul reduced to lis ele-
ments, and small al that. or prin.
cipIe, so that the right thing should
be done even at the cost OF per-
sonal inconvenience-Of domestic
qualities such as make happy
home, Il respectable condition and
a prosperous neutrality-suspicious.
had not the veriest shallow. She
was ihrlItless, idle, unthlnklng,
graceless. The servants kept the
house aud she did not keep even
the books. Edwin's salary was OF
the most restricted dimensions !;
but let The meal run out of the
sack and The ale out OF The barrel
and did not attempt 10 stop the
waste. She was always beautiful
and always daintiIy attired. In
bed for half the day, she was the
most exquisite production OF art
and nature .lr the other half.
Put her loyeliness al last became
n drug III the domestic market,
which Edwin would willingly have
bartered for humpbaok and a
linsey woolsy gown, added 10 the
working qualities CT good house
keeper, who kept the expenses
within his income, aud made the
home both honorable and home
like. With debt, squallOr, eXtrav'
agaHee and disorder, the degfada-
ton was as certain as that throne
will fall when the lion legs are rot
ten. He had been cursed with his
wish and the blight was severe
Angelina's wees grew daily worse,
uis temper followed suit: while his
finances shrunk and shrunk. Al
last The inevitable catastrophe
came TO pass and bankruptcy, fol
lowed by separation, landed him
into desolalion and The useless re-
grets of repentance. lie is now q
poorer man, sadder, and, no doubt
so far WISER O-day, than he was
on that merry bridal morn oil May
when he married his adored ano
thought he had forced the gates o.
Paradise once and forever, and had
: built him for life an enduring Ia
bernacle among its flowers anC
Towering bushes. He has learned
by terrible experience that Il MAJ
does not always know what Is bes
for him, and that even the sicknes
of love had sometimes better EN-
i dure unhealed, than be cured fO
time and eternity by the caustic o
matrimOny.
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