Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-12-30
HIS POINT OF VIEW.

Tho lnqulsitlve man who makes up dtatls-
tIes--f1r am far too gallant. / hope. to
ever accuse a woman OF 30 hepous crime
should devote his attention to the cause OF
unhappy homes and vice versa. He always
tells ua how many babies are born and die
and grow up-how many people die at is;
he informs US how many married men went
crazy this year and how may boys under
committed suicide; he has sour Income
down to dot. and seems to imblbe from
some occult source the effect Of every drug
on every scr, OF people, ana how many re-
cover from the effect Of It's administration In
doses under ~ rammea.
OF course We are delighted to get all this
Information. Il ls a cheap and easy way OF
becoming wise and gaining a reputation for
brilliantly quoting Inaccuracies. and, like
the man who used to read a page OF the
encyclopedia before each dinner party he
went to, We have to change our numbers, as
ho had to turn his pages.
Now. why does not this person give us
some clarity OF ideas and solve such tru-
iema or fnlssms as the trlte saying Of
Marriage Ia a failure" or ia life worth
livlngs" or lis suicide sin?" For ex-
ample, II would be interesting to some peo-
pie to know why these questions were oAked
at all. The old maid who knlts blue stock
lngs for the heather. and has a parrot for
society aud furniahed room for a home
might wonder why people ever preached tho
subject OF marriage; and the pink-eheeted
creature who pours out my morning coffee
and calls me a ally old dear would probably
look at har three curly-aeaded hopefuls and
answer the question In the lrishman's way
by asklng r~other one-"Are you orazy?"
Pr3bably' not polite but what will you
when a woman has not been through a
college course. and does not know whether
Cleveland Ia a good Republican or a bad
Democrat?
Then the sanity little man who goes TO
church ON Sunday and awlndles people all
NE rest OF the week would possibly want to
Know why people thought OF questioning the
Lprd's motives In putting Us on this earth.
PAssbly such as he make US question even
the Creator more than 10 good FOR religion or
falth, but that Ia neither hero nor there.
Do you smoke . brorwood pipe. my
friend? Yes? Well does It give you trains
OF reflections like these. sans rhyme and
sans reason9 Lot us Rolyc. ofi-hand, a Few
OF ,the questions which have puzzled the
wlld since tho creation. Mrs Adam began
Z flll thow nice 1t Is that Mrs. Adam did
oi that apple. for We always have her 10
a'nd the hameD by going about making
3qualEtauces-of which her husband Ger
t5nly would not have approved. She had
y luncheon OF a. pics with The serpent. II
Mrs. Adam had lived to-day, she might have
oven been tempted 10 plriake OF cham
nagne and capon TO such an extent has
human nature weakened morally In fact,
we are not so sure that those apples were
not Kind OF magnined grape, VIA, cham
payne. Mrs Adam was probably just an
ordinary woman. and as MIR Adam possibly
had huslno9s ON hand other than hunting up
serpeniH who ilirted with his WIFE there
was a very good cause for tho ilrst husband
TO ask himself that question, now hoary
with ago, ia Marriage a Failure?"
What was Adam doing, anyhow, at this
crisisg What business had he TO attend 10
IN which his wiio could not join? She vas A
few hours younger and had no education.
but he wss not a Harvard man. aud should
have allowed Madame -vc TO work with him
instead OF leaving her to her own devices
oven W the safe and lovely garden OF the
world,
Thon there 10 tho woman whoso last yoa,'a
aacquc looks as objectionable as gown
which aho has worn Sundays and week DAYS
Tor four yoars--almply rollc OF a wonderful
nhe has worn sundays aud weak DAYS for
four yeara-slmply a relic OF a wonderful
choque Wnlch did not 30 Tor food or medl-
cine. Her hushand-poor little creature
comes Up ainiahly drunk several nights a
week; one night no Keeps hor on the verge
OF despair by not coming homo at all ana
on the remaining nights stargers In maud
lin or IN drunken anger, which makes her
cover and tramhle like hunted criminal.
Sho Is Young enough 10 remember some
other lifea girlhood. plenty to cat. prob.
ably luxury but she bears II ALL Sho even
slngs little motherly airs as she patches up
"Fathcr's' clothes for tho sturdy fellow
Who IA 70 succeed 70 them. She lives over
her happy long ago IN the girl who nsps
aud "a not afraid OF her father because
mother says she must MOI be; she forests 10
be tired when she has To hear lessons and
20 back TO the long ago on the wing OF a
spelling book. Ana even when he--who was
Young and manly and kind and tender when
she married. hl'n--cvon he can make her
smi'e when no gives hor glance
OF what havo been whom on some
great occasion he comes home kind and
serious and sober And thlB woman would
tell you that ehouid the children be tal,cn
from her she wouldn't change places with
Mira Vanderbilt. that Of course she would
] marry Tor love II she were a eirl again and
lie worth LIKING. Why, she would smile
az the ab5ufdity OF your aslslng such a stu.
pid question:
Ana yet We puazlo over simple things.