The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1895-03-30
wom.. rom the fatal mistake of mar

women rom the fatal mistake OF mar
. rying men to reform them. II a young
! man by twenty-five years OF age, or
} thirty years of age, has the habit OF
J strong drink fixed on him, he Is as
certainly bound for drunkard's grave
rs that q train starting out from
Grand Central depot at eight o'clock
tomorrow morning Is bound for AL
bany. The train may not reach Albany,
for it may be thrown from the track.
The young man may not reach a
drunlSard's grave, for something may
throw him off the iron track OF evil
habit; but the probability is that the
train that starts tomorrow morning
at eight o'clock for Albany will get
there, and the probability is that the
young man who has the habit of strong
drink fixed on him before twenty-five
or thirty years of age will arrive at q
drunkard's grave. She knows he
drinks, although he tries to hide it by
chewing cloves. Everybody knows
he drinks. Parents warn, neighbors
and friends warn. She will marry
him; she will reform him.
If she is unsuccessful in the expert
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emancipate her, because habitual
drunkenness is cause for divorce IL
Indiana, Kentucky, Florida, Connecti-
cut, and nearly all the states. So the
poor thing goes to the altar of sacrifice.
If you will show me the poverty-struck
streets in any city, will show you the
homes of the women who married men
to reform them. In one case out of
| ten thousand it may be u successful ex-
pertinent. l never saw the successful
| experiment. But have rigorous d.
vorce law, and that woman will say:
IF am affianced to that man, it is
for life"
BY the wreck of ten thousand homes,
by 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
marital oath the most appalling of all
perjnries, / 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.
Ask God whom you shall marry, il
you marry at all. A union formed in
prayer will be happy union, and
though sickness pale the cheek, and
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 it's
wedding march and orange blossoms
clear down to the last farewell at that
gate where Isaac and Rebecca, Abra-
ham and Sarah, Adam and Eve, parted
Let me say to hundreds of young
people in this house this afternoon, be-
fore you give your heart and hand in
holy alliance, use all caution; inquire
outside as to habits, explore the dis
position, scrutinize the taste, question
the ancestry, and find out the ambi-
tions. Do not take the heroes and
the heroines of cheap novels for
a model. Do not put your life
time happiness in the keeping of a
man who has reputation of being lit
tie loose in morals, or in the keeping of
woman who dresses fast. Remember
that while good looks are kindly gift
of God, wrinkles or accident may de-
spoil them. Remember that Byron
was no more celebrated for his beauty
than for his depravity. Remember
that Absaloms hair was not More
splendid that his habits were despica-
bic. Hear it, hear it! The only
foundation for happy marriage that
has ever been or ever will be is good
character
In the EARN Ballads" our Ameri-
can poet puts into the lips of a repent
ant husband, after a life of married
perturbation, these suggestive words:
And when She dies wish that she would be
laid by me,
And lying together in silence, perhaps we viii
agree.
And II ever we meet in Heven, I would no
think IL queer
II we loved each other better because we quar-
relied here.
And let me say to those of you who
are in happy married union, avoid frs,
quarrels; have no unexpected CORE.
spondence with former admirers; Gull
tivate no suspicious; in a moment of
bad temper do not rush out and tell
the neigh ors;- do not let any of those
gadabouts of society unload in your
house their baggage of CAB and title
tattle; do not stand on your rights;
learn how to apologize; do not be SO
proud, or SO stubborn, or so devilisl,
that you will not make up. Remem.
Der that the worst domestic misfor
tunes and most scandalous divorce
cases started with little intellect
ties The whole piled-up train
of ten rail-cars telescoped and
smashed at the foot of an embankment
one hundred feet down came to that
catastrophe by getting two or three
inches off the track. Some of the
greatest domestic misfortunes and
Understanding divorce cases have
started from little misunderstanding
that were allowed to go on and GO on
until home, and respectability, and re-
ligion, and immortal soul went down
in the crash, crash!
And, fellow-citizens, as well as fel.
low-Christians, let us have divine
rage against anything that wars on the
marriage state. Blessed institution