The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1891-08-20

another. Distance lends enchant-
ment" and we usually value most that
which is out of our reach, and this
very fact is the cause Of many
Jason. Were the coveted one your
own, she or he who now belongs to
you, or did he or she belong to some
one else would probably be the very
one for whom you would soon be
signing. Such is the inconsistency Of
human nature-at least some human
natures.
And SO the delectable class go on,
deceiving and being deceived; always
harping upon this one single key, but
touching the true chord not once in a
life time-always seeking for the pos
sible exception to the rule, and al
ways playing they have found it.
But in 900 cases in every 1000 the
the principals in this disreputable
business, know themselves to be, not
withstanding their sophistry, the
perfect cheats they are. They play
upon each others credulity to the
utter loss of every thread Of the warp
and wool of self respect, and then
stifle their consciences with the spuri-
Gus plea Of "a good time" must
have some fun ETC., and 60 on rs
before. But how much, think you,
is this woman above that creature
who fiaunts her vileness to the world
and bears upon her breast the flaming
insignia of shame-the scarlet letter?
And how much better is this man
than he who openly walks by her
side the acknowledged companion of
a magdalene? Not whit! not as
good indeed, for these deceive no one,
all know when they meet them and
yield the pathway. But the married
fiirt leaves deceived and bro
ken hearted woman at
a despoiled Preside, or a
betrayed husband to weep over the
ashes OF his dishonored hearthstone.
They smile when you meet them, and
would be horribly shocked were you
to denominate them by the appella-
ton best descriptive of their rotten
morals. Oh yes! why, are they not
very respectable? God save the
morals! Not once in a generation
does it happen that q real dissapoint-
ment in affections visits q married
person, and that sincere but unlaw-
full love really comes to abide in a
pure and distracted heart. But when
it does come it brings only sorrow
and heart break, like none other on
the face of Gods sad world. Nothing
can help such q soul but heavens
own pity; absolute separation, and
the path of duty sternly trod. Such
pair will only this way aid each
other in bearing what must be borne
in ashes of humiliation and sorrow.
Precious little fun" in this you will
perceive. But every day. l repeat,
is this awful, this cyclonic force af-
fected and insulted by these people,
bent on any wickedness of a thrilling
sort-determined to have amusement
though the heavens fall and the earth
be rent assunder thereby. To them
to make q mash il the acme of oil
their ambitions, to play upon the
credulity of silly, flattery loving fools
their height Of felicity. But they can
be detected by almost any keen sight.
ed individual, and the Undesirable
contempt and disgust they arouse in
honest husbands and wives is deep
and wide, and l here declare that any
man or woman Il care not how SO.
called respectable" they may be,
who will deliberately murder the
peace of any home, whether happy
or not in the strictest sense of the
word, deserves to he first punctured
in every pore with needles and pins,
and then shot. Any easy death is fal
too good for the punishment of this
vilest, cruelest crime in the whole
catalogue of vile crimes. save only
one. But their class is numerou.
among us. and it only remains fol
clean minded folks to consign then
to the social oblivion they deserve
They faint the atmosphere of honest
virtue with their putrid moral car
cases, and should be avoided like
any other evil that menaces the pub
lie good. And not until the ranks O
this none too rare species are thinnet
to an appreciable degree, may we o
| Henri WatterSOn or any one els,
honestly claim that the world is real
: ly growing better and not worse.
LAURESTINE.