St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-02-26

riage ceremony itself was not saera-
| ment, but in his opinion love-making
| was
Love" said the speaker. sis the pur-
| est and highest attribute of the human
| heart, and is not the base and vulgar
| passion that is too often mistaken for
the genuine article. Above all else
women should be truer to each other.
| Young men too often trifle with the
hearts and affections OF women. lie
who robs bank or stabs a fellow being
to the heart in the dead of night is a
gentleman compared to the man who
will wilfully trifle with the at
| fections of woman and win her
trusting heart only to break
it in pure wantoness. You young
women should protect each other, yet
| you do not. When man wrongs a
woman, he should be thrust out from
the society and the friendship of every
| pure woman in the community; yet he
is too often made much of and becomes
more the pet of society than ever. No
woman should feel hurt because she has
| been Tilted by one of this class. Let her
remember these lines of Watts: BE
| lieVing. | rejoice to sec the curse re-
-, moved
Every true-hearted woman looks for
ward to marriage as the bright partlcu-
lar future before her. If she says she
never thinks of such a thing, she tells a
story. Shells either untruthful, or un-
natural. Should young man tell you
| that he cares not to ever marry, and
SCOTS at the holy bonds, set him down
! at once as base, and filled only with
vulgar passion"
He stated that boys should not fall in
love, at least until their boards began
to grow At the right age they would
fall in love in the right place, and fall
in deep. He advised people about to
! fall in love to study the one who seemed
about to inspire their passion as they
would piece of cloth, to see if it was of
the right quality, all wool and yard
wide. Scotch people, he SAID, always
did. Ladies aud young men were both
advised to study well the families of
their friends. Blood would always tell.
Above all, he cautioned the young men
never to marry girl who could not
make good bread.
He advised them not to be discour-
aged if the first one of their choice re-
| fused to have them. There were better
| fish in the sea than ever came out OF 1t,
and the girl might revenge him by doing
worse. Counting under difficulties had
| its annOyances, but they only served to
make it all the more fun. There was
| the family with four daughters and
only one parlor; the mamma who would
insist upon running the conversation
| during the entire evening, and the papa
who possessed an inquiSitive and savage
bulldog, with good set OF teeth.
There should be no fooishness about
popping the question, for, no matter how
| good speech was prepared, 1t always
| failed
He reminded them of the fellow in
Maine who had girl weighing 200
pounds, and who sat on his knee for the
she said: 'Am | not heavy, John?" To
which he replied: 81 don't know. L
haven't felt any feeling in my legs for
two hours" Another young fellow had
prepared fine speech, but bad not the
courage to use land lin their walk, they
arrived at a graveyard. They paused
before beautiful headstone. Maria"
he asked. chow would you like to sleep
in grave like that with me?"
"First-rate, john" she answered,
"when the time comes" They were
married.
A rather old beau, he said, in Yer
| mont, sent word to the girl of his choice
| by a mutual friend, that he had plenty
Of cordwood stacked up, fine farm and
| plenty of money. was as friSky as ever,
| and wanted her to have him. The
| damsel sent back word that he must
| call himself. as she wanted to see just
how frisky he was.
Next to death, marriage was the most
important step in the human calendar,
yet it was made almost joke. People
should never marry for money, for gold
was as base there .as anywhere, and
more apt to be the root Of all evil. There
| was no disgrace in being an old maid.
| 1t was better to be poor and happy
old maid than rich and miserable wife.
| Girls should never marry unless by do
| ing so they could better their condition.
| Yet they should never marry for the
purpose of improving that condition.
| OF course lecture of that kind could
not pass without shot at the mother
in-law of public joke. He advised the
young man to look TO them well, as in
nine cases out of ten. just as she was so
her daughter would be i'll twenty years.
| The mother-in-law was necessity. and
everybody knew who necessity was the
mother of, and asa rule the world of
men had been striving for an invention
to get rid of her for many years.
No girl should kiss man who used
| tobacco, and above all one who drank.
He launched out with temperance
lecture, and pictured the horrors Of a
death-bed scene with delirium tremens,
a broken-hearted wife, sorrowing
mother. and myriads of snakes chased
each other in some confusion for quite a
time. This was the result, he said, of a
man who partook OF a social glass. He
closed by advising all to beware of
selfshness, of which love was but a
higher type. and roasting the idea of
marriage without love and respect.
would ever be guilty.
Before he finished he had succeeded
| in making every male escort enough of
an object of suspicion in the mind of
his companion to place him under sur
veillance for some weeks to come.