The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1902-05-01

men that ever lived, united to one OF the
most outrageous and scandalous OF women,
who sat in City Road Chapel making
mouths at him while he preached! Wit
ness the once connubial wretchedness OF
| John Ruskin, the great art essaylst, and
| Frederick w Robertson, the great preach
| err Witness a thousand hells on earth
| kindled by unworthy wives, termagants
| that scold like a March northeastern. fe-
| male spendthrifts. that put their hus-
! bands into fraudulent schemes to get
| money enough to meet the lavlshment OF
| domestic expenditure; opium-uslng wo-
men-about four thousand OF them In the
| United States-who will have the drug,
| though it should cause the eternal damna-
| ton Of the whole household; heartless and
| overbearing, and namby- pamby. and un,,
| reasonable women, yet married-marrled
men who build the low club-houses, where
| the husbands and sons go because they
\ can't stand it at home. On this sea OF
| matrimony, where so many have wrecked,
| am not right in advising divine pilotage
| Especially Is devout supplication needed
| because of the fact that society Is so full
| of artificialities that men are deceived as
| to whom they are marrying, and no one
| but the Lord knows. After the dress
maker, and the milliner, and the leweier,
| and the hair-adJuster, and the dancing
master, and the cosmetic art have com
pleted their work, how is an unsophisti-
| Gated man to decipher the physiological
| hieroglyphics, and make accurate Judg-
ment of who it is to whom he offers hand
and heart? That is what makes so many
recreant husbands. They make an honor
! able marriage contract, but the goods de
| livered are so different from the sample
| by which they bargained. They were
, swindled and they backed out. They
mistook Jezebel for Longfellows Evange-
| ROruIa Mart Ia
| Washington.
! Aye, as the Indian chief boasts of the
/ scalps he has taken, so 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, for these
| advertise their infamy, while the former
| profess heaven while they mean hell.
| There is so 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 guld-
| ance when l remind you that mistake is
| possible in this important affair, and, II
| made, is irrevocabe! ,.
The worst predicament possible is to be
unhapply yoked together. You see 1t Is
impossible to break the yoke. The more
you pull apart the more CALLING the yoke.
The minister might bring you up again,
and and in your presence read the mar
rage ceremony backward, might put you
on the opposite sides of the altar from
where you were when you were united,
might take the ring off OF the finger, might
rend the wedding veil asunder, might tear
out the marriage leaf from the family Bible
record, but that would fail to unmarry
you. 1t is better not to make the mis-
take than to attempt its correction. But
men and women do not reveal all their
oho, fiji ms 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,
and that is the Lord of Paradise. he
made Eve for Adam, and Adam for Eve,
and both for each other. Adam had not
a large group OF women from whom to
select his wife, but it Is fortunate, Judg-
ing from some 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 a rib
from Adams side. Nobody knows which
nucleus. If you depend entirely upon
yourself IN the selection OF a wife, there
are twenty-three possibilities to one that
you will select the wrong rib. by the tate
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 willfuily upset his astronomical APP
paratus, so that he turned to the audience
and said, Ladies and gentlemen, l have
the misfortune to be married to this
woman" by the fate of Bulwer, the
novelist, whose wife's temper was so in
compatible that he furnished her beau
tiful house near London and withdrew
ba,. lpaInn bap with thp
dozen dogs whom she entertained as pets;
by the fate OF John Milton, who married
a termagdnt after he was blind, and when
some one called her a rose, the poet said:
Il am no judge of flowers, but it may be
so, for | feel the thorns daily" by the
fate of an Engllshman whose wife was so
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 impiore you to be cautious
and prayerful before you enter upon the
connubial state, which decides whether a
man shall have two heavens or two hells,
a heaven here and heaven forever, or a
hell now and 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 ne was making py
the 10Y of Grotus whose wife delivered
him from prison under the pretence OF
having books carried out lest they be in
furious to his health, she sending out her
husband unobserved in one of the book
cases; by the good fortune of Ro,and, 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 a 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
il 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 flour
ishing in almost every community. De
pend upon your own Judgment divinely
illumined. These brokers in matrimony
are ever planning how they can unite i'm
pecunious innocence to an heiress, or cell
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