Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1889-10-02
CHOOSING A HUSBAND.
A Tale Which Shows That All
That Glitters Is Not Gold.

That Glitters Is Not Gold.
1.-TWO offers at once You are truly fav-
ored maiden, Rose" said Annette Lewis TO
her young friend, Rose Lilton, in a gay tone.
| ut is husband or no husband with most OF
us; but you have d choice between two"
And happy shall be If have the wis
dom to choose rightly" was the reply Of
| Rose.
''If it were my case, do not think l
should have much difficulty in making a
| CHOICE"
Don't you, Suppose then you give me
the benefit Of your preference"
"Oh, no, not for the Wordp replied An
nette, laughing. 'I'm afraid you might be
| Jealous Of me afterward" p"
"Never fear | am not of II jealous dis
position"
"No, won't commit myself IL regard to
your lovers. But If they were mine would
soon let it be known where my preference
lay"
Then you won't assist me in coming to a
| decision Surely am entitled TO this act OF
friendship"
''If you put it upon that ground, Rose,
do not see how ] can refuse"
IL do put it upon that ground, Annette.
! And now, / ask you, as IA friend, to give me
your opinion of the two young men, James
| Hambeton and Marcus Gray, who have
seen such wonderful attractions in my
! humble self rs to become suitors for my
! hand at the same time
"Decidcdiy, then, Rose, should prefer
| Marcus Gray"
| ''rhere is about him, certainly, Annette,
much to attract a maiden's eye, and TO cap
| tivute her heart; but it has occurred to me
| that the most gltterng surface does not
| always Indicate the purest gold beneath. l
| remember, once, to have seen massive
chain, wrought from pure ounces, placed
| beside another that was far inferior in quail
! ity, but with surface of ten times richer
| hue. Had not been told the difference, /
should have chosen the latter as in every
way more valuable. But when 1t was ex-
planned that one bore the hue of genuine
| gold, while the other had been colored by
process known to jewellers, / was struck
with the lesson 1t taught"
"What lesson, Rosef'
"That the richest substance has not
always the most glittering exterior. That
real worth, satisfied with the consciousness
OF interior soundness of principle, assumes
few imposing exterior aspects and forms"
Sand that rule you apply to these two
young menF'
"By that rule wish to be guided, in some
degree, in my choice, Annette. l wish TO
keep my mind so balanced that 1t may not
be swayed from sound discrimination by
any thing Of imposing exterior"
"But is not the exterior-that which
meets the eye-all we can judge FRONT Is
not the exterior true expression of what
Is withinl"
"Not by any means, Annette. l grant
that it should be, but it is not. Look at the
fact have Just named respecting the gold
chain"
"But they were inanimate substances.
They were not faces, where thoughts, feel
ings and principles find expression"
"Do you suppose, Annette, that bad gold
would ever have been colored so as TO look
even more beautiful than that which is
genuine IL there had not been men who as
sumed exterior graces and virtues that
were not in their mindi No; the very fact
you adduce strengthens my position. The
time was, in the earlier and purer ages
the golden ages-of the worlds existence,
when the countenance was the true index
To the mind. Then it was a well-tuned in
strument, and the mind within a skillful
player, 10 whose touch every muscle and
chord and minute fiber gave answering
melody. That time has passed. Men now
school their faces 10 deception. 1t is an art
which nearly all practice-myse self and your
self too often. We study TO appear what
we are not. Look at some men whom we
meet every day: with faces whose calm
ness, should rather say rgidity, give no
evidence that u single emotion ever crossed
the waveess ocean of their minds. But 1t
Is not so The mind within is active with
thought and feeling But the instrument
formed for it to play upon has lost its tune,
or bears only relaxed or broken Chords
"Nou have n strange, visionary way of
talking, sometimes, Rose" replied Annette,
rs her friend ceased speaking, "All that
may do for your German transcendental- |
lists, or whatever you call them; but il |
won't do when you come down 10 the mat
ter,of-fact business OF life"
40 me IL seems emiuently a practical |
principle, Annette, We must act In all im- |
portant matters in life with just discrim- |
nation; and how can we truly discriminate /
II we are not well versed in those philo- /
sophical principles upon which, and only |
upon which, right determinations can be
mader
II must confess, Rose, ;" replied her young
friend, "that do not see much bearing that
all this has upon the matter under discus
sion or, at least, can not see the truth OF
its application Gold never assumes leaden
exterior
"welm
I'VE need not be very eminent philoso-
pliers 70 distinguish one from the other"
"No, Of course not"
Very well. Here is Marcus Gray, with
a genuine golden exterior, and James
hambleton, with a leaden ono.n
IL do not grant that position, Annette IL
Is true that Mr.. Hambleton is not SO brill.
liant aud snowy, but have found in him one
quality that have not yet discovered In
the other"
"What Is thatP
"pepth Of feeling aud high moral princi-
Pile"
"Nou certainly do not pretend TO afirm
'ha, Mr. Gray has neither feeling nor pria.