Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-06-14
AS TO MATRIMONY.
INF CUSTOM OF MARRYING IN THE
81 MONTH OF JUNE.
Solomon Could Not Have Had n
ScbcduIc--Is Marriage N Failure
NngginG Wifc-Pcrsonal.
Correspondence Of the Dlspatch.)

anfor that many things could not be as
well done some other time.
Getting married, for instance. for while
this is generally the accepted season
when the happy wooing eliminates in a
wedding. and the June bride is a bride in
whom most OF us are personally interest
ed. the custom is-like the new brido-a
modern innovation.
The systematic and much-married Oricn-
taists. who had time for everything,
probably drew the line al his marriage
license. unless he grew his own papyrus
and filled out the document by number.
No caligraph. nor typewriter. shorthand
reporter. nor town clerk could have sup
piled the demand in any specified month.
There was Solomon, you know the wisest
man on record-at that time. Solomon's
matrimonial ventures 90 not Justify any
exact conclusion as 10 time. To keep
ahead Solomon must have been married
each day in the year, from Nissan, the
hrst month, 70 Adar, the twelfth month,
inclusive. The fact is. no camel-train
could have made IT'S schedule time for
wedding at high noon in June or any
other month with three hundred brides
tuning the trimbrels and clamoring for
the royal apparel whorcwith TO greet the
waiting groom.
II is only in the light Of modern ways
that we are wiser than King Solomon,
and have fallen upon these pleasant days
for our love-making and for marrying.
/ believe, though. We get our happy fash
ion from the birds, and, like the birds,
find one mate at time quite sufficient.
IL hITI-.ynOIug q
hone-making, when every tree and bush
IS fun of counting couples and little hearts
are overlooking with amOrOus song.
Ana how bewitchingly cOy-hOw tender
IS the wooing.
Did you ever notice how the birds pair
chipping sparrow IN the hedge, or gold
finches in the shrub? HOW modestly the
lady-bird, by Gods law. sits in the shade
and sings her own happy song until her
mate comes 10 find her?
l wonder, in all the tOpsy-turVy chang
ihg of new society ways, II it would not
be as we'll 10 take this lesson Of the mat
Eng birds to heart? Such innocent things
nowadays seem like the passing away OF
old-fashioned feminine delicacy under the
corrosion Of dress. and, sometimes, the
easy lautudes Of speech. and il is so hard
10 dehne-this little play OF words be-
tween fun and freedom!
i was airing some of my stilted views
as she called them. 10 a charming girl
the other day. and she said. dreamily:
Just think! Mamma says / use too much
slang-that she wishes l would eliminate
nice. and 'awfully,' and not if l know it.
from my vocabulary"
"And what did you say?' asked.
Told her If l did l should be reduced
20 signs"
Then she yawned behind her white
hands, and no one would imagine. as /
knew that she could chatter with esprit
III two languages.
MATRIMONIAL ADVERTISEMENT.
In the nondescript mail matter with
which ] am sometimes honored comes a
publication that Is about 5000 years too
late in getting into print. one Of its
"ads' runs in this wise:
''2z53 ---. Lady Of splendid FORM
food-looking. and stylish. 10 years of age,
feet inches; weight. 40, auburn hair,
brown eyes. highly educated and accom-
pished. desires 10 correspond with gen
tlemen over 30 with view to matrlmony
The riGht girl for the right fellow"
Now. / would like TO take this highly
educated" young woman and put her on
thc limb Of a bemlock tree TO chant her
plaintive wall until she evoluted, back
wards, 10 a woOdpeckor.
But what i want to know is, where is
romstock. and Parkhurst, and all the rest
of them? IL is just this kind Of foolish
ness that builds up the divorce colonies
pf Oklahoma City and El Reno, and fills
the country with broken homes and
hearts
Every woman expects 20 wear a we'd
Dng ring some time I'm her life. but that
is only the beginning, for every wedding
Does not constitute a marriage Lots or
sense and nonsense has been written on
that old question. rs marriage a failureT'
Ind ] don't think It has been settled yet.
u has been decided, however, that II is
much easier to get married than to stay
30 happily. and much easier 20 get a hus-
band than 10 keep HMM a good humor.
Winning husband" says the black
Eyed Jarbeau. "is only a pleasure TO a
woman. but keeping him after You win
him is q penance," which is too Frenchy
10 be true.
frankly confess that in unhappy mar
ragos my sympathios are rather with
the husbands. j don't mean with the
brute, or the drunkard, or the Jealous
monster-who is worse than either of
Che others-but that I'm the smaller TRACE
dies OF matrimony II Is the little foxes"
that eat the vine Of love; II is the smaller
Virtues that keep II fresh and vigorous.
And II IS my observation that after the
marriage VOWS are taken two thirds of
the power necessary for a happy home
lies with the wife.
The very best word for a household
motto Is "tact'-which is only practical
genius of the highest ordor-and those
who lack tact cannot keep a husband any
more than they can keep house. Men
are not half bad lot under the refining
influence of mutual interest and love.
but they must be taken for what they are,
and not for what they should be.
THE NAGGING WIFE.
or all things I should think the mag
cling" wife was the greatest trial; a wo-
rldn who was always fretting over
little things; who wanted TO go out when
ne wanted 10 stay in and vice versa;
who talks of her husbands faults and
shortcomings. and yet reproaches him
with copious tears. chat he does not love
her as he used to-
An ugly temper i'm man IS a trial that
few women are able TO stand The only
cure Is silence. You can't kiss a furious
man-it only makes him worse. The
thing 10 do. my lovely young June bride,
a. 10 let him alone and you keep still.
Hell come around twice as soon, and
thrice as repentaut.
II seems TO me that the husband who
s. worth wedding IL worth keeping; and.
81 contented heart. forbearancc. devo-
ton. with, maybe. "A little artificial tact.
viii hold him, Tor goodness sake let him
be held
This thing OF trying TO rule husband
Is all huncombe; it can't be done. You
can coax most men. bribe some, ana
govern very few-and they are not much
account-but that vulgar rubbing of the
fur the right way wins every time.
A LITTLE SHAKEN.
Aud. did you never think that sometimes
man finds his iCol-O well NOT broLen