The Bennington banner. [volume] (Bennington, Vt.) 1858-1894, 1890-07-10

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the experiences of great man who
life is mirrored in that description. He
was a man of great enterprises, and filled
a large space in the public eye. His in
ventions were marvels of mentality, and
the outcOmes from them were of enor-
nous, incalculable value to the human
race, yet his home was hell and his
wife devil. She would lock up his coat
she would hide his hat; she would both
er him about his meals; she would ever
lastingly taunt and sneer and comment
and scold about his lack of business
sconce, so that the man lived the life a
cur--absolutely he would shrink from
his home like a dog with his tail between
his legs.
We colld not stand it.
He could not endure it.
Now, man who has a scold for q wife
has this one great advantage: He can
put on his hat, slam the front door and
go out to meet his friend Mr.. Barleycorn,
or any other, and pass pleasant even
ing, coming home about the time the
milkman makes his earliest rounds, and
the scolding may begin. l pity the wo-
man, though, with a scolding, peevish,
irascible husband. The poor woman!
how she has to suffer- What she has to
endure no one but herself can tell The
cross man, how his coming is dreaded
even by the woman who is called his
wife! How his children hate the idea of
papa's coming home! How they shrink
from his harsh voice as it rings through
the hall, asking whether that internal
dinner will ever be ready!" Oh, l have
seen them. have heard them. L have
seen men who were too sweet to live in
the barroOm, who were regarded as the
very pink of perfection, of politeness in
the salon, who in the corridors of the
hotel are boon companions with every
one, but from whom that mask falls the
moment their own front door is closed
behind them, and the seclusiOn of their
homes is stirred to the very echo with
their seedlings and their carping, their
complaints and their grumblings. My
observation teaches me that carewOrn
women grow from young girls who marry
prematurely, and that gross grained
men are developed from boys who have
married at too early a stage in the game.
Parents owe it to themselves and to their
children to impress upon them the folly
of mating at too early an age. What
pleases boy of IS, 10, 20, p cannot be
expected to please him when he is %, 30,
q v,
dolly sort of a girl of 10 or II won't be
the realization of her anticipation when
she gets to be %. The very first wall of
the very first baby seems to be an inspir-
alton, as though it were tonic, coursing
through every vein of the woman's ma
ture, changing her absolutely in almost
every case from child to awoman, from
a thoughtless, careless, CHEEKY child to a
careful, matured, conscience guided wo-
man. Parents, l say, own it to their
children to impress upon them the folly,
hyglenic and well as mental and moral,
of these early marriages. From a pru-
dental point of view young man is a
first class donkey to load himself down
at the very threshold of his career with
the expense of family, and observation
and experience show us that the family
follows very quickly. And young wo.
man with happy home, with everything
bright and CHEEKY around her, what
right has she, from her own point OF
view, to involve herself in the mental
anXieties, the physical pains and the
moral responsibilities which are the nor.
NAL accOmpaniments of married life?
Well, what do you propose?
Bless you, it is against proposing that
am arguing at this early stage of the
game. am not philosopher; am
simply photographer. l call attention
to the misery, unquestioned and wide
scoped, that results from early marriages
You don't catch me putting my foot into
it by suggesting this, that or the other
l simply say that two and two make four;
that early marriages result in worriment
in embarrassment and in the ultimat,
disintegration of very desirable condi
ton. should say that the proper time
for the ordinary American man to marry
is when he is 80, and for the ordinar!
American girl from 20 to %. Men of 2
are boys. As matter of fact they ar
not full grown, they are not well knit to
gether, they have no incomes of any &C
count, and they have no right, moral,
speaking to take girl from her father
house, where she is comfortable, unles
they have home to put her in, wher
she will be as well cared for as she ha,
been before she had the misfortune t.
meet him. This line of thought mus
necessarily commend itself to men Q
common sense, and others are not wort
talking to.
Have you boys? Talk to them sens
} bly,.
/, Have you girls Tell them to look a
the lines in mammals face.-Hotcdrd /
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