The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1897-10-08
bill ARP'S WEEKLY LETTER.
rHE Ups And DOWNS o. SOME
MATRIMONIAL VENTURES.
william InteJret- row Quotations
From Lady Friends Dsrmnur 90 ths
subject or Matrimouy.

Whenever there Is trouble and i
can't give any relief OR remedy, IL dis
lresses me, especially when the trouble
/ Is of a domestic character. Now here
I is letter from a man who says. "l
know a man, neighbor, who is Of
warm, allectionate, passionate nature,
and loves hiswife 90 distraction, but she
is calm aud cool and conservative by
nature and, therefore, indifferent 10
his caresses, and whenever he ventures
10 kiss her and put his arms about her
she repels him with such expressions
rs, oh, Tom, get away; don't bother
me- She Is pure, good woman and
loves her husband in her way, but she
never meets him at the door when he
comes home tired OF disappointed with
/ his days work. The poor fellow
is really pining away and Ian
| gushing for lack OF loye-for recip-
rocity, as il were-and can't get it,
Now, what is the remedy? Can't you
bring your universal philosophy 10
bear upon this case and solve the prob
/ Temp
No, cannot. / am helpless. Moth
/ ing but time will equalize and har-
monte that couple. am afraid their
union was a misft, but he took her for
/ better or worse and must be recon
/ ciled, In fact. he ought TO be thank
+ full in these degenerate days that he
has found pure good woman, even IL
she is not as tmnultuous in her love as
+ he would like her 10 be- But time is
good doctor Time will assuage
him down some and will tone her up
some, for man and his
wife get more and more alike
as the years roll on. There were
some good friends at my house last
night and / seriously to them this
letter and asked for advice about an
swering it. They all agreed that the
man was not writing about his neigh
Dor, but was relating his own pitiful
condition.
] a married man said, Write him to
get away and quit bothering her when
abe says So
A bachelor friend said Write him
10 firt little with another mans wife
and she will come to her senses mighty
quick and return his caresses."
"That is all you know about it, ="
said another dame "The firtations of
a husband destroys love and happi-
ness, too. They are more apt to bring
contempt and even scorn. A true wo-
man will suffer and endure any fault
or failing except that.
A young married woman said timid-
ly, "She must be a very strange kind
of woman not to like caressing, but
I do think she ought to meet him
ut the door and give him a smile or
two when he comes home"
"He must be a right good man and
I am sorry for him, said a lassie in
her teens. cor maybe he is so horrid
coarse and ugly that no self-respecting
woman would want him bothering her
for kisses and caresses every time he
came about, said a lassie out of hel
teens.
"Maybe he smoked and his breath
was disagreeable, said a benedict who
never used tobacco.
So got but little comfort from thi;
goodly company and my wife contin
ned the discourse by remarking in hel
quiet way, "Well, think your FRIEND
had better have kept his misery t.
himself. Let him stick to his prom
Uses that he made at the altar.
cor apply for writ of mandarin
and make her kiss him according tt
law" said learned judge who wal
present 81 would make her reciprO
cato if the case was in my court. Tn,
writ of mandamus is far-reachint
and effectual process.
Well. of course. the conversation
drifted to the topic Of May and De
cember marriages, with grooms o
more than three score and ten an,
brides of tender years. We all agree,
that if such a groom had anything t
leave such a bride besides his nam
and would depart this life in a reason
able time, she was justified in marry
ing him. But in the first place, tn
property should be in sight the "qui
pro quo" and it should be fixed, sci
tied, lowered, doyetaiIed, clinche
upon her, and there should be a
implied contract that he should di
in strict accordance with the deaf
; rate, the expectation laid down in tn
1 life insurance tables, Indeed, if tn
late frequency of old men margin
, young woman is to be multiplied I
an alarming extent, there should b
established death insurance offiC
: so that the young girl could go to
e and get a policy insuring the old man
death in limited time, and if b
: didn't die within the time, the con
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