Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-03-18

chewing cloves. Everybody knows ne
drinks. Parents warn, neighbors ana
friends warn. She will marry hlIh'
she will reform him.
If she is unsuccessful in the expert
ment. why then the divorce law VIII
emancipate her, because habituai
Is a cause for divorce III
Indiana. Kentucky, Florida. Connect
cut. and nearly all the States. So the
poor thing goes to the altar OF sacri-
flee. II you Will show me the poverty
struck streets in any city, / will show
YOU the homes of women who married
men TO reform them. In one case out
of ten thousand it may be a successful
experiment ! never saw the success
ful experiment. But have d rigorous
divorce law. and that woman will say:
If am affianced 10 that man, il is for
life"
A rigorous divorce law will also do
much to hinder hasty and inconsider-
ate marriages. Under the impression
that one can be easily released, people
enter the relation without inquiry and
without reflection. Romance and i'm
pulse rule the day. Perhaps the only
ground for the marriage compact is
that she admires his looks and he ad-
mires the graceful way she passes
around the ice cream at the picnic! II
is all they know about each other. 1t
is all the preparation Tor life. a wo-
man that could not make loaf OF
bread TO save her life will swear TO
cherish and obey. a Christian VIII
marry an atheist, and that always
makes conjoined wretchedness; TOR II
man does not believe there is God,
he is neither 10 be
TRUSTED WITH A DOLLAR
nor with your lifelong happiness.
Having read mucn about love in cot
tage. people brought up IN ease VIII go
and starVe in howell.
BY the wreck of ten thousand homes,
bv the holocaust of ten thousand sacri-
feed men and women, by the hearth
stone of the family which is the corner
stone of the State.and in the name OF
that God who hath set up the family
institution and who hath made the
breaking of the marital oath the most
of all perjuries, implore the
Congress of the United States to make
some righteous. uniform law for all the
States and from ocean TO ocean, on this
subject of marriage and divorce.
Let me say 10 the hundreds OF
young people in this house this after
noon. before you give your heart and
hand in holy alliance, use all caution;
inquire outside as to habits, explore
the disposition, question the ancestry,
and find out the ambitions. DO not
take the heroes and herOines of cheap
novels for a model. Do not put your
lifetime happiness in the keeping of
man who has a reputation for being a
lutte loose is morals,or in the keeping
of a woman who dresses fast. Re
member that Byron was no more cele-
brated for his beauty than for his de-
pravity. Remember that Absalom'
hair was not more splendid than his
habits were despicable. Hear it, hear
it, The only foundation for happy
marriage that has ever been or ever
will be
IS GOOD CHARACTER.
Ask God whom YOU shall marry, II
YOU marry at all. A union formed IN
prayer will be a happy union, though
sickness pale the cheek, ana poverty
empty the bread-tray, and death open
the small graves, and all the path OF
life be strewn with thorns, from the
marriage altar with its wedding
march and orange blossoms clear on
down to the last farewell at that gate
where Isaac and Rebecca, Abraham
and Sarah, Adam and Eve, parted.
And let me say TO you who are in
this relation, if you make one man or
woman happy you have not lived III
vain. Christ says that what he IS TO
the Church you ought TO be to each
other: and if sometimes through differ
ence of opinion or difference OF disposl-
ton. YOU make up your mind that your
marriage was a mistake, patiently
bear and forbear. remembering that
life at the longest is short, and that for
those who have been badly mated in
this world. death will give quick and
immediate bill of enforcement written
in letters of green grass on quiet
graves. And perhaps, my brother, my
you may appreciate
each other better in heaven than you
have appreciated each other on earth.
In the Farm Ballads our American
poet puts into tho lips Of a repentant
husband. after a life Of married per-
turbation, these suggestive wards
And when she dies I wish that she WOULD
And wing together in silence. perhaps we
will agree.
And if ever we meet in heaven, l would
not think it queer
If we love each other better because we
quarrelled here.
AND LET ME SAY
to those of you who are in happy mar
ried union, avoid first quarrels; have
no unexplained correspondence with
former admirers: cultivate no suspi-
cions; in a moment of bad temper do
not rush out and tell the neighbors; do
not let any of those gadabOuts of so
ciety unload is your house their bag
gage a CAB and tittle-tattle; do not
stand on your rights; learn how to
apologize; do not be so proud, or so
stubborn, or so devilish that you will
not make up. Remember that the
worst domestic misfOrtuneS and the
understanding divorce cases have
started from the misunderstanding
that were allowed to so on and go on
until home and responsibility, and re-
ligion. and immortal soul went down
III the crash, crash,
And. fellow-citizens as well as fell
Christians, let us have a Divine
rage against anything that wars on
The marriage state. Blessed institu-
ton! Instead of two arms to fight the
battle of life, four. Instead Of two
eyes to scrutinize the path of life, four
Instead of two shoulders to lift the
burden OF life. four. Twice the en-