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pe,haps to GOOD men! These are the wo-
men who build the low club-houses, where
the husbands and sons SO because tney
can't stand it ut home. On this sea OF
matrimony, where SO many Eave wrecked,
am not right in advising divine pilotaee:
Especially is devout supplication neede9;
because Of the fact that society Is SO iuii
of arti6ciali.ies that men are deceived as
| to whom they are marrying, ana no one
but the Lord knows. After the dress
maker. and the milhner, and the lewe!er,
and the hair. .adjuster, and the dancing
master. and the cosmetic art have COM
Melted their work, how II an unsophisti.
Gated man to decipher the Psychological
hieroelyphics, and make accurate ludg.
men. of who it il to whom he offers hand
and heart? That 10 what makes so many
recreant husbands. They make an honor
able marriage contract, but the goods de-
lvered are 90 different from the sample
BY which they bargained., They were
swindlcd, and they backed out. They
m;stook Jczebel for Longfellow's Evange-
line. and Lucretia Borgia for Martha
Washington.
Ave. nc the Indian chief boasts OF the
scalns he has taken, 20 there are IN society
to-day many coquettes who boast OF the
masculine hearts they have captured. AND
these women, though they may live amid
richest upholstery, are not SO honorable
as the cyprians OF the street: Tor these
advertise their infamy, while the former
profess heaven while they mean hell.
There Is 60 much counterfeit woman
hood abroad It Is no wonder that some
cannot tell the genuine coin from the base.
Do you not realize you need divine guid'
ance when / remind you that mistake 10
nossibie in this important affair, and, It
made, % irrevocable:
The worst predicament possible is to be
unhappily yoked together. You see it Is
impossible to break the yoke. Ihe more
you pull apart, the more CALLING the yoke.
The minister might bring you, up again.
and and in your presence READ tne mar.
riage ceremony backward, might put you
On the opposite sides of the altar from
where you were when you were united,
might take the ring of Of the finger, might
rend the wedding veil asunder, might tear
ont the marriage leaf from the family Bible
record, but that would fail to unmarry
you. It is better not to make the mis-
take than to attempt its correction. But
men and women do not reveal all their
characteristics till after marriage, and
how are you to avoid committing the fatal
blunder? There is only one Being in the
universe who can tell you whom to choose,
ana SnaG Is Tue Lulu VI ~AS
made Eve for Adam, and Adam for Eve,
and both for each other. Adam had not
a large group of women from wnom to
select his wife, but it in fortunate, Judg.
ing from come mistakes which she after.
ward made, that it was Eve or nothing.
There Is in all the world some one who
was made for you, as certainly as Eve was
made for Adam. All sorts of mistakes
occur because Eve was made out Of RIB
from Adams side. Nobody knows which
of his twenty.four ribs was taken for the
nucleus. If you depend entirely upon
yourself in the selection OF wife. there
are twenty.three possibilities to one that
you will select the wrong rib. BY the fate
Of Ahab. whose wife induced him to steal;
by the fate of Macbeth, whose wife pushed
him into massacre; by the fate OF James
Ferguson, the philosopher, whose wife
entered the room while he was lecturing
and wiIlfully upset his astronomical ap-
paratus, 80 that he turned to the audience
and said. Ladies and gentlemen, ! have
the misfortune to be married to this
woman" by the fate of Bulwer, the
novelist, whose wifes temper was 50 In.
compatible that he furnished her beau.
tifuI house Eear London and withdrew
dozen dogs whom she entertained as pets;
by the fate Of John Milton, who married
a termagant after he was blind, and when
some one called her q rose, the poet said:
II am NO Judge Of flowers, but it may be
30, for ! feel the thorns daily" by the
fate of an Englshman whose wife was 90
determined to dance on his grave that he
was buried in the sea; BY the fate OF
village minister whom / knew, whose wife
threw a cup OF hot tea across the table
because they differed in sentiment-by all
these scenes OF disquietude and domestic
calamity. We implore you TO be cautious
connubial state, which decides whether
man shall have two heavens or two hells,
a heaven here and heaven forever, or q
hell now and q hell hereafter.
BY the bliss Of Pliny, whose wife, when
her husband was pleading in court, had
messengers coming and going to inform
her what impression he was making; BY
the joy of Grotius, whose wife delivered
him from prison under the pretence OF
having books carried OUT lest they be in
jurious to his health, she sending out her
husband unobserved in one OF the book
cases; by the good fortune Of Roland, in
Louis time, whose wife translated and
composed for her husband while Secretary
Of the Interior-talented, heroic, won
derful Madame Roland; by the happiness
OF many q man who has made intelligent
choice Of one capable being prime coun.
selor and companion in brightness and in
grief-pray to Almighty God, morning,
noon, and night, that at the right time
and in the right way He will send You
good, honest, loving, sympathetic wife; or
If she is not sent to you, that you may be
sent to her.
At this point let me warn you not to
let question OF this Importance be set.
tied by the celebrated matchmakers -four
ish;pg in almost every community. De
pend upon your own judgment divinely
irlumined. These brokers in matrimony
are ever planning how they can unite i'm
pecunious innocence to an heiress, or celi.
bate woman to millionaire or marquis, and
that in many cases makes life an unhappi-
ness. How can any human being. who
knows neither of the two parties as God
knows them, and who Is ignorant Of the
future, give such directions as you re
quire at such q crisis.
Take the advice of the earthly match
maker instead of the divine guidance, and
you may some day be led to use the words
Of Solomon, whose experience in home life
was as melancholy as it Vas mIltitudinous.
One day his palace, with its great wide
rooms and great wide doors and great
wide hall, was too small for him and the
loud tongue of q woman belaboring him
about some Of his neglects, and be re.
! treated to the housetop to get relief from
the fungal bombardment. And while there
he saw . poor man on one corner OF the
roof with q mattress for his only furni-
ture, and the open sky his only covering