The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1897-09-28
BlLL ARP ON MATRIMONY
WHITES OF FAFFECTIONATE nUsnANDs
AND DiSDAiNEUL WIVES.
""s 'nS ""omrn Foiks"-Dsif,s Into a
Vu'S'oh " or june Likes lSlassand ana Decembcr
S.tH"ss4 sfiisnks Archaic Grooms
sFgEg bhould Die-Says That when
Marry Old They Imply an
Agreement to Die In a
st3a3& Short Time.

can't give any relief or remedy. il
distresses me, especially when the
trouble is OF domestic character
, Now here is a letter from man who
says, II know a mana neighbor--
who ID OF a warm, affectionate, pas
sionate nature and loves his wife tc
distraction, but she is calm and cold
and conservative by nature and,
therefore, indifferent to his caresses
and whenever he ventures to kiss
her and put his arms about her, she
repels him with such expressions as,
'Oh, Tom, get away, don't bother
me- She is pure, good woman and
loves her husband in her way, but
he oomea homo tired or disap-
pointed With his days work. The
~ poor fellow is really pining away
aud languiahing for lack of love-
for reciprocity, as it were, and can't
get it. Now, what is the remedy ?
Can't you bring your universal phil
osophy to bear upon this case and
solve the problem ?"
No, 1 cannot. I am helpless.
Nothing but time will equalize and
harmonic that couple. T am afraid
their union was mis6t, bVt he took
hef for better or worse and must be
reconeiled. In fact, he ought to bo
thankful in these degenerate days
that he has found q pure good
woman, oven if she is not rs tnm-
pltuous in her lovo as he would
like her to be, But time is a good
doctor. Time will assuage him
down aomo and will topo her up
aome, for q man and his wife get
more and moro alike O., the years
roll on. There were some good
friends at my house last night and
seriously read to them this letter
aud asked for advice about answer.
ing it. They all agreed that the
man was not writing about his neigh
Dor, but was relating his own pitiful
condition.
4 married man said, write him
to get away and quit bothering her
when she says So"
4 bachelor friend said, "Write
hin, to airt little with another
nlan'e wife and she will come to her
senses mighty quick and return his
qaresses."
HFAat ia ali you know about it."
said anc, "er-deme. '"Fhe flirtations
offe. husband destroys love and hap,
piresa, too, They arc more apt to
bring contempt and even soorn. A
true woman will suffer and endure
any fault or failing except that"
Ayoung married woman said tim
idly, "She must be very strange
kind OF woman not to like caress-
ing, but l do think she ought to
meet I'M at the door and give him 3
amile or two whom he comes home"
'sHe must be right good man and
am sorry for him. said lessie in
her teens. "Or maybe he is 80 nor.
fld coarse and ugly that no self.res
apeoting woman would want him
hotheripg her for klssess and oarosss
ess every time he came about" said q
lassie out of her teens.
"Maybe he smoked and his breath
was disagreeable," said benedict
who never used tobacco.
So ] got but little comfort from
this goo9iy company and my wife
continued the discourse by remark
ingin her quiet way, "Woll, I think
YOUR friend had better havo kept his
misery to himself Let him stick to
his promises that he made at the al
tahN
"0r apply for a writ of mandamus
and make hor kiss him according to
law" said a Learned Judge Nwhp was
preaept 81 would make her reoip-
rorete if the case was in my court.
The writ Of mandamus is far
reaching and effeotual process"
We'll, Of course, the conversation
drifted to the topic of May and De-
cember ma,riages;' with grooms OF
more than three-score and ten and
brides Of tender years. We all
agreed that il such a groom had
anything to leave such bride be