The prison mirror. [volume] (Stillwater, Minn.) 1887-1894, 1892-05-19
The English language is rich in so many

The English language is rich in so many
beautifully WOrded sentences without any
real meaning or sometimes with double
meaning that man cannot be careful
enough i'm selecting the way in which to use
them. We don't know sometimes where
from we get the first wrong impression of a
thing. but we know exactly that its repeti-
ton seems to deepen the groove Of.the mis-
take, and that our familiarity with it shapes
the mistake in the form of fictitious truth,
which is therefore misleading. Every ques-
ton ought to be judged by it's dominant
motives and its average results.
When two years ago we had the opportu-
nifty to read in all the papers different
opinions relating to the Question-''Is mar
rage faillreY'-we could see distinctly
that the old prOverb-QuOt hOmines. tot
sententi8 (MaDy men, many minds)-iS
quite true. 1t is hard to please everybody.
For instance. do please you to day with
my opposition? am sure do not. have
opponents too. and know it. Shall that
hinder me from writing? Hush! Before
took the pen to write for THE MIRROR I
intended to ask one of the Saints to help
me out, but do not know which one of
them is my particular patron. and did not
dare to ask All Saints at once. as was
afraid they would carry me too far. So
am trying to do the best can.
The very decided impulse. which has
been recently given to the marriage ques-
ton. is due entirely to the energy and sa-
gacity of the press. Even THE PRISON
MIRROR is not much behind the time and
found His Honor in the person of IRA
meOus." Cynicus, his friend, is quite sure
that love expressed in songs is insanity,
wherefOr "RameOus'' sentences him to 90
as an apprentice to tannery. though for
the life of me do not see how a tannery
can improve his taste for music. Another
writer somewhere else thinks. that he found
the real reason of an unhappy marriage in
the grammar. He thinks that two persons
are entirely sufficient for the cOnjugaton
of the verb ''lOve." 1t is such little verb,
you know. And it is not joke either, he
is very serious about it. He means what
he says, and he says that the third person
in cOnjugatiOn of the verb ''love'' is super
f1uOus, entirely unnecessary. 1t spOls the
harmony. the fine feeling of the language.
He declares with a painful expression of
cOuntenance. that two is company and
three is crowd. and he ought to know.
Each one of all the other writer's or
nearly each one of them is inclined to make
the woman the responsible party. Why
not the man or both parties alike? 1t is
matter of fact anyhow. that ''Wben Greeks
joined Greeks, then was the tug of war;"
If you do not believe it. ask Nathaniel Lee
he told you so in his history of Alexander
the Great.
know only one writer, who defends the
woman with real energy and this is
Thomas Hood, when he says:
But alas. alas! for the woman's fate.
Who has from a mob to choose mate.
Tis strange and painful mystery
But the more the the worse the natcl;
The more the fish the worse the catch;
The more the sparks, the worse the match;
Is a fact in Woman history.
1t is no eXaggeratiOn to assert, that where
the marriage is founded on true love. moral
ity and virtues of similar character, the
wife will never desert her husband in his
hour of trouble. But how many couples
have been rendered miserable by entirely
opposite tastes and inclinatiOns! LEO.