, 1889-06-27
THE RAMBLER.


| "Sust Iu bllC 5DlutIOli Oh cat EOCld
problem, the propOsers of which, man,
of them, know sbOut as much of rs the'
do OF Sanscrit, it has remained for tbi
city, after diguified silence, TO come t.
the 'front.' with its monitor, like the chair
man of the electoral committee, hand il
its decision to the suffering public, and
cousign the testimony fIom plaintiff
aud defendant to that oblivion where
chestnut chimes are unknown.
Port ToInse I'd is cumberel with
many cares, the victim of misplaced
confidence and unrsquitted affection
Its waterworks are 4 snare aud de
lusioD, it's lights are under a bushel, its
aldermen are weary with we'll doing, It's
citizens are compelled to partake of the
peck of earth in the dust boom; and yet
it assumes the burden OF furnishing the
key to the above problem, lis marriage
a failure?"
The tariff, free trade, protection, civil
service, Canadian fisheries, the eclipse,
"Robert Elsmere," and the "Quick or
the Dead" are all calming down, and
the public pulse is becoming normal.
Relentless time has retired the "Man of
Destiny" to private life. Our prophetic
vision fortells more states in the union
and more union in the states-more
marriages than failures,
Port Townsend has an old lady, one
of the communicates Of the old settlers
picnics, Mrs. Standish, by nume-a
descendant OF "MIles who did not marry
Priscilla" seventh daughter of a sew
eDth SOD, a native of Boston who lived
and fought, suffered and died at the
time of the great tempest in the teapot
in Boston Harbor Well, Mrs. S. has a
grand daughter, who, for reasons OF her
own, asked the G. NJ, trusting to her
yahrs and experience, the question,
(which are tho bappiest, those who
marry, or those who do not?" G. Ms
reply was, There's just as many that is,
that amt, as amt that isr' which settles
the matter of matrimopy, St. Paul to
the contrary, who probably bad b5en
Tilted by his best girl, and was little
soured. King Solomon was married @
good dcal-the wisest man the world
ever saw-and his family record did not
prove a failure.
! There are many mistakes and misfits
in the divine arrangemeDt-married but
not mated. Our poets, as class, have
not been noted for happy marriages.
Byron, Shelly, Dryden. Shakespeare,
Milton, CoIeredge and even old Dante,
it is said. composed his Inferno" in the
middle of his family.
Some OF these husbands, perhaps.
were addressing love dities to gain
other wonen's eyes, soaring to the
skies in ecstatic sentiment, while the
wife of his poetic bosom was splitting
kindling wood or rocking the baby.
While there are but few instances
where the husband and wife work to-
gether in literary career. il remains
fact that but few married wcmen are a
success in anything outside OF the
sphere they have chosen as an orna.
mental or useful appendage TO their
elected lord and master.
1t is said that the nearest way to q
mans heart is through his stomach
The duties pertaining to that route are
detrimental to literary life.
A well balanced woman can care snc-
cessfuIIy for a whole orphan asylum,
and yet have spare time for nore
worlds TO conquer; but the turnpike
which leads to a mans heart, who eau
solve? A few noted exceptions are
worthy OF mention, mated il mind and
heart, working in sympathy: Gen. and
Mrs. Lew Wallace, Mr.. and Mrs.
Barret Browning, Gen. and Mrs Custer,
who endured bardships which weaker
women would have shrunk from, tales
of woe which are as household words at
nearly every fireside. written on these
wanderings, until separated by death.
Women especially should lie proved
that one Of their number should be able
to move the world with such a work Rs
HRobsrt Elsmere." Think of n hun
dred thousand clereymeD trying to de-
fend their orthodoxy @: fourteen hun
dred years against the words of ono
woman! We hear little of her husband;
but perhaps he snuffed the candles for
her, or sbarpened her pencil. which, by
the way, is something woman could
| do.
Old bachelorss are seldom natura lists,
don't amount to much anyway. They
are absorbed in themselves, and grateful
| to the woman Vho did not marry them
and go down to their graves unla-
msnted.
But how many noble minded women
have blessed the world, who have lived
and died unsbackled with matrimonial
harness, whose works will live while the
world stands-Hariet Martineau, Han
nah Moore, Charlotte CusbmaD, Louise
Alcott, Miss Emma Willard, Kate Field,
the Cary sisters, Mary Hewitt, besides
our own gentle Hamlet nee Anna Dicken-
son, and Rose Elizabeth, the new
meteor, not forgetting Florence Night
ingale, the phiIantbropist, who deserves
statue erected 10 her memory as i'm
sosing as John Wentwortbs, who only
grew tall and filled their own pockets.
But finally, brethren anu sisters, re of
good cheer. There are just as many is
happy that amt married, as amt happy
that is"
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