The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-07-29
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race. and infant marriage Ii very shock
ing and the consequences are sometimes
peculiar, but, nevertheless, the Hindu no
tion-which Is the continental notion,
which In the aboriginal notion-of arrang-
ing marriages irrespective of the personal
i~uclinations of the married, In sound.
Think for q minute, and you will see that
Il must be SO; unless, of course, O be-
lieve In "aflnities." In which case you
had better not read this tale. How can a
man who has never married.; who cannot
be trusted to pick up at sight a
moderately sound horse; whose head Is
hot and upset with visions of domestic
felicity, go about the choosing Of a wife?
He cannot see straight or think straight II
he tries; and the same disadvantages ex-
list in the case of n girls fancies. But
when mature, ma rried and discreet peo-
pie rrange q match between a boy and
q girl, they do IL sensibly, with
u view to the future, and the young couple
live happily ever afterwards. As every
body knows
Properly speaking, government should
establish a matrimonial department. elIi-
GENTLY differed, with a jury of Matrons.
a Judge and the chief court, "a senior chap
lain, and an awful warning, in the shape
Of a love-match that has gone wrong,
chained to the trees in the court yard.
All marriages should be made through
the department, which might he subordi-
nate to the educational department, under
the same penalty as that attaching to the
transfer of land without n stamped docu-
ment. Blu government won't TAX sug-
gestions. II pretends that II Is too busy.
However, l will put my notion on record,
and explain the example that illustrates
the theory.
Once upon a time there was a good
young mana flrst-class officer IN his
own departmental man with a career be-
fore him and, possible, q X. {. l. T.. at the
end of il. All his superiors spoke well of
him, because he knew nov to hold his
tongue and his pen ut the proper times.
There are to-day only eleven men in India
who possess this s%ecret; n they have
all, with one exception, attained great
honor n enormous incomes.
This good young man was quiet and
self COMMUNICATION old for his years by
far. Which always carries its own pun
,shment. Had n Subaltern, or n tea
planters assistant, or anybody who enjoys
life and has no care for Tomorrow, done
what he tried to do not a soul would have
cared, but when Peythroppe-the es-
Unable, virtuous, economical, quiet,
Woodworking, young Peythroppe-fell,
there was a ilutter through five depart
ments.
The manner of his fall was in this way.
He met a Miss Observation-Disclosures il was
originally, but the family dropped the az
for administrative reasons-and he fell in
love with her even more enegetically
thar he worked. Understand clearly
that there was not a breath OF a word to
be said against Miss Castries-not q
shadow of a breath. She was good and
very lovely-possessed what innocent
people at home call a spanish" con-
plexion, with thick blue-black hair grow
ing low down on the forehead, into a
widows peak" and big violet eyes under
eyebrows black and as straight as the
big man dies. But-but-but-. Well,
she was a very sweet girl and very pious,
but for many reasons h was 'impossi-
ble." Quite SO. All good know
what 'impossible" means. 1t was obvi-
ously absurd that Peythroppe should
marry her. The little o~pal-tinted onyx at
the base of her f~ingcr-nails said this as
plainly as print. Further, marriage with
Miss Castrles meant marriage with sew
eral other Castries-Honoraiy Lieutenant
sCastries her papa, Mrs. Eulalia Castries
her mamma, and all the qualifications OF
the Castries family, on Incomes ranging
from RS. 115 To RS. 40O a month, and their
wives and connections again.
IL would have been cheaper for Pey-
throppe to have assaulted a commissioner
with n dog whip. or to have burned the
records OF a deputy commissioners Office,
tnal 10 nave cDlltItttttu All alllatlct WIFI
the Castries. IL would have weighted his
after career less seven n a govern
ment which never forgets or forRives.
Everybody saw this but Peythroppe. He
was going to marry Miss Castries, he was
being Of age and drawing a good Income
and woe betide the house that would not
afterwards receive Mrs. Virginie Saulez
Peythroppe with the Difference due TO her
husbands rank. That was Peythroppe's
ultimatum, and any remonstrance drove
him frantic.
These sudden madncsses most afiiict
the sanest men. There was a case once
but 1 will tell you of that later on. You
cannot account for the mania, except un-
der n theory directly contradicting theo n
about the Place wherein marriages are
made. Pe%ythroppe was burningly anxi-
Gus to put n milestone round his neck at
had not the least effect on him. He was
going 10 marry Miss Castries, and the
business was his own business. He
would thank you to keep your advice to
yourself. With n man in this ron
dition, mere words only fix him I'm his
purpose or course he cannot sec that
marriage out here does not concern the
individual, but the Government be serves.
DO you remember Mrs. Hauksbee-the
most wonderful in India? h
saved Plufies from Mrs. Reivcr. won
Tarrion his appointment in the Foreign
Ouice. anu N0s ueieatet III opeu menu Wy
Mrs. Cusack- Bremmil. She heard of the
lamentable condition OF Peythroppe, aud
her brain struck out the plan that saved
him. She had the wisdom Of the Serpent.
the logical conference Of The Man, the
fearlessness of the Child, and the triple
intuition Of the Woman. Never-no,
never-as long as a tonga buckets down
the Scion dip. or the couples go a-riding
at the back of Summer Hill, will there be
such a genius as Mrs. Hauksbee. She at
tended the consultation of Three Me- on
Peythroppe's case; and she stood up with
the lash of her riding whip between her
lips and spake.
Three weeks later, Peythroppc diued
In, .hn ThrDn Mnn and tho ~ -eI. ~