The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1892-01-23
MISERABLE MARRIAGES
Unions which Produce Discord and Tn.
happiness.

Unions Which Produce Discord and Cus
happiness.
Here are two gloves. They are with
out stain and without rip and are Of
excellent quality and color and work.
manship But they are both for the
right handUod they will not make
pair. So. then, as far as their proper
design goes, they are useless and irri-
tAting. These two half-pairs represent
precisely the cause and conditions of
many miserable marriages. Husband
and wife are both excellent people;
both young, handsome, intelligent and,
at first sight, apparently we'll suited to
each other.
Their similarity seems to promise
happy union; on the contrary, it is like
the similarity of two gloves for the
same hand. They prove to be equally
young and inexperienced, equally fond
ct authority, equally sure that their
own way is the bcst way, and so equal.
lyclever at repartee that "tiffs'' are
their daily bread They both love
music, and each soon finds the practice
Of the other . 'little trying" Both
talk 30 well that domestic conversation
is AZ blocked rs lower Broadway on q
steamer day. Both have such exqui-
site taste In dress that tailors' and mod
istes' bills are equally extravagant
Both write and paint a little, and both
are equally blind to their own errors
OF style and wide-awake to those of the
companion of their life.
1t is, indeed, fact that the common
possession Of some one talent is a great
promoter of conjugal hot water. Some
counteracting element of sufficient po-
tency to maintain the balance of happi-
ness Is wanting-there is no left hand
glove in the domestic intercourse. It
would have been better that one hand
there should have been a love Of direc-
tion, on the other q disposition to be
led; on the one hand a clever talker, on
the other patient and intelligent lis
tener; on tho one hand skill with the
brush or pen, on the other appreciative
admiration Of the talent
Two positives make negative in
most Of the circumstances of life; and
matrimonially, the circumstances are
50 final and important, it is better not
w HAoA tWO pOSiUAVcS. WO mlnQS, TWO
tastes, two dispositions of the same
kind are apt to be as obtrusively irri-
tsting rs two gloves for the right hand.
The situation has in it also much that
Is very depressing. For, as the glove
less man reflects he must take the
journey on which he has started with
such an unlucky pair, without any op-
portunity Of repairing the mistake; SO
the man unhappily married but NO.
paired, is perpetually reminded of the
hopelessness Of his wrong selection. 1t
would be a miracle If he should now
ever find the mate to his right hand
glove, and II he did find it the recogni-
ton being too late for appropriation,
would be a misery.
In general circumstances the thing to
be avoided is that similarity which
breeds difference, and the thing to
be looked for is that exquisite differ
ence which insures completeness. And
as the selection of wife is not an ex-
perience Of frequent occurrence in a
mans life he may certainly look we'll
to find the complement of his own
nature, or else ask himself candidly if
he is willing to go through life with
the useless superfiuity of two gloves
for the same hand. E. Barr, in
N. Y. Ledger.