The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1894-04-27
Is Marriage 4 Failure /?

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JACKSONVILLE, FLA, April 18th, 1894.
| To the Editor of the Banner,
Well, LET us talk about ii and see If it is. Did
| you say it seems to be with good many peopie7
Well suppose it is, owing altogether to whom
| the parties are who get married, and what their
motives and principles are, and how selfish or
unse1fsh they are. 1t always requires two to
make bargain or contract and both must keep
it TO the letter. otherwise it is failure Marriage
is partnership business. Some do not consider
that at all, They are like the two mountaineers
who were so ignorant that they thought they
could swap wives the same as mules. They hon
estiy think that they buy their wife when they
buy the license and pay the preacher. They
don't know that they have to pay for the privi-
| lege of being allowed to link themselves with
Almighty Gods browning work woman Well
you say some women are limb off of "old
satan" Well, l admit that but it is very seldom,
except where they are ono of their husbands
limbs. You say what in the world set my BRAIN
working such subject Well, I'll tell you.
have seen much i'll of your town papers,
called the New Capitol, about sensational di-
vorce suit to come off. I thought they were al
ways sensational. ! know i would have queer
sensations would even let man snore i'll the
next room if the door was locked on his side,
and no window between and couldn't crawl
through the transom. l would LET him put his
feet on the mantlepiece, if he took off his boots
aud had on nice norno hoes; would let him
bow and smile and scrape his feet to all the Ia
dies; would even let him getup and make fire
for me i'll the mornings and warm while he
dressed. OH I'd do most anything before I'd
have separation, either before or behind the
curtains. But as saying that divorce suit
hasn't come off, and / am tired of waiting ON it
and reading so much about it. It's getting fixed
in my mind and it might injure my mind. Who
is it and what is it kicking up such a dust i'll
everybody's lungs? 1t will give all the lung
fever. Well, sometimes good at guessing
I'll see if can guess the pesky thing out. Well
must have mzre than guess if l make
misguess, Well shall guess that it is no divorce
suit at all but just a mean son of Adam" who
is amusing himself by fretting and tantalizing
his poor wife, who eats her bread alone; maybe
with her little one, while he eats at the hotel.
She sits alone while he sits i'll the hotel office
piazza and reads the papers Don't let us follow
him from here. Possibly her health is poor,
much worse for having the responsibility of him
all these years. He must be short sighted if he
can't see that she needs something. why don't
you wake up man, and shake yourself and get
back your senses, and tell satan to get behind
you and keep respectful distance, too. Instead
of leaving your wife and fretting her, do what
you promised love, cherish and protect her"
Send her to some good institute and have her
bodily ailments treated and Eyes you able,
your cigars and drinks, &C. SC, would pay for
it, cured, and see when she returns if things are
not different. Methinks you will have more sun
i'll everytime you go in (Be sure you go in often
and regular) You know sunshine is an ont-of
door thing that went keep long inside of the
house. so carry in fresh everytime. If you want
to cook meat you keep up the fire, don't you
Well, if you want domestic comfort and peace,
keep up the fire of love and kindness, be
selfish and gentle, keep up a little courtship
every now and then. If you cant be so deceitful
as to do that when you do not feel it, why, then
be gentleman to her always, and strictly just
She will get tired of being mean by herself.
Dear me, have allowed my mind to wonder
as well as wonder. Now suppose mistaken
and have guessed wrong. Suppose there is moth
ing the matter, and all the husbands are good
and sweet to their wives, and they all cry out
against me and say, Il VOW it's not So you mis-
erab1c guesser," and every last man says, My
wife is my life" I'll never leave or worry her or
do her a moments unkindness if she's fretfil1 I'll
kiss it way and keep her life filled with sun
shine She shall consider me always the best
man in the world Well, if this should occur
wouldn't be chewed. You say what will do?
Why I'll just flop right over to the other side
and defend man with my latest breath, I'll let
him eat of my best preserves / will. I'll say il
our Heavenly Father has no special use for
woman" then neither have /, and it were bet
ter she never had been made then the poor man
would have had all of his ribs and would not
have been so weak on one side as he is He
would (maybe) still be sauntering in the Garden
of Eden with nothing to do but sleep.
When the Lord walked in the Garden, Instead
of his sneakiug off and hiding until he was
pulled out, and then declared "the woman you
gave made me eat that fruit" he could have
held himself up noble creature and said, here
am l Lord, still in thine image" Yes, l will say
it, that-it is pity woman was ever made" why
not let the poor men roam the garden and earth
i'll piece But you say that there would have
been people. o, that does not matter there
might have been better race, kangaroos, or
something, and man would not have been bur
dened with something unlike himself
Is marriage failure? Well it is if the bar
gain is ali on one side
MERCY