The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1902-10-03
THE TIE THAT BINDS.
A PEW THOUGHTS SUGGESTED BY A So
CALLED "JOKE."

CALLED JUN Z.
Under the heading of "Just For
Fun" which appears from week to
week in popular periodical, We find
this squib:
ave can't tell you, Constant Reader,
What days are unlucky to be married
on. Authorities differ; some say 365."
The skeptical member of the family
who had passed beyond the probable,
although not the possible, matrimonial
limit, read the ''joke," as he termed it,
aloud and indulged in hearty fit of
laughter over it and pronounced it
good"
1t might have passed in the mind Of
the general reader as a good joke, but
to the more thoughtful it was sugges-
tive of the spirit of the age. Nearly
all the light literature of the present
day read by the average reader sayors
of unhappy marriages. The heroes
and heroines figure as men and women
who have made mistakes in their Sc
lections of partners and find their
true ailinities later. Our young peo-
pie who read these books get their
ideas of marriage largely from these
pernicious stories, which make mar
riage anything but the tie that binds.
1t is because of the light manner in
which that tie is held, that there is so
much of unhappiness in the marriage
relation, and the reason We hear so
much and so often of petitions to dis
solve that relationship. There is no
other more enduring tie than that of
marriage when it is made of love and
founded on the sacred principles which
our Lord intended it TO be. There is
something radically wrong in the rest
lcssness of our married people. Why
is it that the environment of home life
seems to he 80 easily wearied OF? Why
is it that there are so many things to
take husbands and wives away from
the peace and quiet of their own fire.
sides? Is it not great question
whether club-lfe is not a breaker up
of the old home life, which the husband
and wife should hold as the best and
pleasantest Of all possessions?
St Paul, in his letter to Titus, in
culcatcs the idea that the wife should
be a keeper at home. But to be
keeper of home the wife must be a
lover of home and make it as attractive
as possible for her husband A writer
has said that the chief instruments of
human reformation and Transformation
must be steady and constant.
"You have been married nearly
thirty years." said one friend to an
other. .....
"Yes, and feel so happy to think
that in all that time he never tired of
me. There was so much in his outside
life to attract him from his home, yet
he has always held that as the dearest
spot on earth, and kept his love for me
just as true and pure as when we were
lovers in the long ago"
The husband could have given the
same testimony to his wife's devotion.
She never tired of him. Even after
thirty years Of being together, bound
by the closest tie, be never left the
wife without goodbye kiss, and on
his return he always met her with
CHEEKY welcome which always made
"" home coming such delight TO her.
70 her he was The one man of all the
world, and to him she was the one
woman. They were united in a tie
that would bind through all the
changing seasons and scenes of life.
To be true to each other and to make
each other happy, had been the high
aim of their married life.
The person is guilty of great
wrong who does in any way weaken
the tie that binds two hearts together.
1t is not always done by the fascina-
tions of evil-minded men outside; often
times those of our own households. by
insinuations or fault-Gndings, disparage
the husband in the eyes of the wife, or
the wife in the eyes of tue husband.
The daughter may have married
man IN whom the father and mother
can see no special attraction, although
there is nothing Objectionable in him.
But the young married couple love
each other, and woe to anyone who in
any way casts shadow over that love!
A son may bring home a wife, who, if
the mother had chosen for him, would
have been some other maiden; but their
love is true and the aim of the new life
is to make each other happy, and why
should the mother weaken that love or
make their lives unhappy because she
does not see wherein that son found