Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1901-11-15
THE TIMELY WARNING.

trothed. On the way the morse became
stubborn, and the man, flying into a
violent passion, began TO lash 1t cruelty
When they returned home the girl
promptly broke the engagement, say
ing that where man could so easily
lose his temper, and SO brutaily fog q
horse, the woman marrying him would
take the same chances of ill-treatment,
and she declined the risk,
1t seems to me that the pith of all the
wise advice, from Solomon down to the
present day, on how to be happy though
married, is comprised in that little
story. 1t throws a sidelight and
searchlight on the Importance of look
ing before you leap into the abyss OF
matrimony. 1t is applying downright,
hard, irrefutable common sense to the
place In life where 1t Is needed most,
and where it is scarcest.
No engineer on earth would be fool
enough to dash on with his train in the
face of a red signal of danger. No pilot
would fail to heed the hoarse cry of the
bell buoy when danger was evident but
the average man and woman, more
reckless than they, rush heedlessly OH
into unsuitable marriages that wreck
their happiness, in spite of the fact that
every inch of the way is placarded
with warnings Of disaster.
As for those other cases, in which
girl marries a dissipated man, believing
she can reform him, or lazy, good-for-
nothing, thinking he will work for her
sake when he never has for his own,
nothing need be said. If person hasn't
enough sense to keep out of the fire,
nothing short of being put In straight
Jacket can prevent them from being
burned. / suppose every woman has
right to wreck her life If she wants to,
but when she does, she ought to have
courage enough to keep her troubles to
herself, and not burden the rest of the
world with lamentations because every
thing has turned out just exactly like
she was warned it would.
If women refuse to heed the warnings
they get before marriage, men are even
more averse to taking a tip from fate.
Every man cherishes in his secret soul
the illusion that he can form his wife's
character and that being married to
him Is going to work a revolution of all
her tastes and beliefs. It Is charm
there isn't one grain of truth in 1t.
What woman is before she is married,
she is to the grave. Women change
much less in character than men. A
man is broadened by going out into the
world. A woman's life Is generally shut
within her own home, where every
thing tends to narrow her down, and
conform her in her prejudices and opln-
ions.
To me one of the most pathetic sights
in life-and it's very common-ls the
broad intelligent, cultivated man mar
ried to the dool baby woman whom he
has hopelessly outgrown. Sometimes
she still has the pretty face that Is the
visible excuse for his folly. Sometimes
she is getting old, and has lost even
that but always there is the tragedy
of utter unsuitability and lack of com
tpht uOtS liot
She never can understand the things
that mean most to him, and between
them Is gulf deeper than the grave,
and wider than eternity.
a wife with a shewish tongue can
make home purgatory. One who is
extravagant and thriftless and waste
full will keep her husbands nose to the
grindstone all his days, and balk his
every ambition.
Yet how would it be possible to erect
a more potent danger signal before
him? How can any man in his senses
fail to remember that husband is al
ways the scapegoat for high-tempered
woman's spleen? When he sees Maud
dressing far beyond her means. and her
poor, old father, bent and worn with
trying to pay her bills, can he doubt for
a moment that the man who marries
her will have to toll like a slave to sup
port her extravaganza? When he finds
that he cannot argue or make Janet see
reason on the simplest subject, does it
need prophet to tell him how eXasper-
ating such pig headed Ounce will be to
deal with through the many problems
of domestic life?
We can lay no more important truth
to heart than that marriage works no
miracles. We do not acquire a new set
of angelic virtues with our trousseaux.
When we marry a person we marry
their bad qualities as well as their good,
and it is Il wise man or woman who
serutinizes the faults of their future
partner before marriage and is blind TO
them afterwards.-Do Dorothy Dix in New
Orleans Picayune.
Southern Women Not Athletic.
In the East, the North and the West
the proportion Of athletic women Is far