The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-05-24
husband and wife to the suit, the error is
fatal JOHN Doe. Attorney-at-Law.n
A VETERAN BEAU ON MARRIAGE


VETERAN BEAU ON MARRIAGE.
gallant veteran whose wide experience of
garrison life entities his opinions to serious
consideration contributes the following advice
to swell my budget: "Let no young girl fresh
from the restraints of school, and as yet un-
triedin practical lessons of life think to find
freedom through blind rush into the solemn
responsibilities of soldiers wife, as SO many
fair maidens of wealth and romantic imagina-
tion are yearly assuming through the bond of
matrimony, all unconscious of the trials that
await them and totally unprepared for the
stern realities of the position The most i'm
portant consideration is, first of all, for a
woman to truly love her husband with that
pure, unselfish devotion that will enable her
to sacrifice every mere personal consideration
in the desire to accommodate herself to cir
cumstances, and submit with good grace to
small quarters, plain fare, early hours, and
monotony of routine that, after the first nov
city OF romance wears OFF, will surely follow
and inevitably prove the source of disappointed
hopes and bring weary hours of loneliness,
that in the usual dearth of female companion
ship must surely result, and unless n woman
be possessed of something beyond mere COM
monplace attractions, some originality of char
acter and strength of mind, she will finally
lose heart, and with it all desire to please and
retain the affection of her chosen hero, thus
sowing the seeds of that incompatibilty which
at length saps all conjugal happiness and rem
ders domestic life hopeless tangle only sew
cred by death.
THE WIFE FOR GARRISON LIFE.
''Take the word of an old soldier" my men
tor continued, ''that the true wife for every
Army officer is one who is ready and willing
to travel in baggage wagon, seated in the
midst of her household goods, without regard
to the roughness of the road, or to journey for
miles ON the uncertain seat ON the baclaof an
Army mule, one of those much-enduring and
greatly-abused animals, whose fondness for
kicking backwards is proVerbially unpleasant
and practically risky. She must learn the diff
ficult art of keeping her own counsel and,
above all, avoid the temptation to gossip,
which to greater or less extent prevails in
every small-sized community and is especially
difficult to escape in the contracted interests
OF garrison life. / once dwelt at quiet post
in the far West where everything was pleasant
and peaceful, until one day there appeared In
our midst newiy-appointed paymastep and
his gossipy wife, whose advent was soon fol-
lowed by most woeful change that affected
the erstwhile happy community like sudden
whirlwind amid the smooth sands of the des-
ert, and IT was not long before the indisereet
msddling OF the new woman set every one by
the ears and each household at enmity with
the other, while the spirit of good fellowship
and love in which all had SO long dwelt had
fed forever. A soldiers wife must understand
something of practical cooking and how to
tidy room and make it attractive on little or
nothing, in order that an atmosphere of com
fort may pervade her quarters and thereby
tempt her husband to linger in happy induIg-
ence OF the temporary dwelling she has ren-
dered SO homelike, set in the midst of the wild
praiiies or more secure walls of a fortress.
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