The Irish standard., 1907-01-26

vogue among fast people about mar
ried life. 1t is appalling to think that
the very last thing for newly married
people to want is mutual love. Nay,
they ridicule belief in any such Old
World relic. It is bad form,' and
what is the end Of it?
1t is not one another's persons, but
one anothers things, that are wor-
shipped. They put their trust in
"hard cash." but have no faith in real
love. If ever there has been any such
thing in the past, it is quite certain
there is none now. We have all of us
heard more than one girl exclaim:
IF ever do marry I'll be sure it is
some one I do not care about; to mar
ry a man one loves means breaking
ones heart
Welded life started in this way,
with no blessing, but. on the contrary,
the curse Of God upon it, goes on from
bad to worse; husband and wife go
ing their own way, drifting further and
further apart, till at last in extreme
cases divorce proceedings begin With
| a plea for what was merely a legal
form; restitution of conjugal rights"
When married people pervert the
end for which the great sacrament"
is instituted by God, and dictate to
Him the terms OH which they are
going to live under the same roof, de-
termine the number OF their offspring
without reference to His will, they are
preparing an evil day for themselves
and what is worse, arc setting evil
examples for others.
| Surely luxurious living is sin gross
enough without any addition to it by
which to lower the birth rate OF their
country. What changes have come
to pass during the last half century in
the social world! We can look back
to a day in our early childhood when
riding across country with our father,
suddenly the latter drew rein, and
pointing to the richly timbered scenes
before him, said:
"All that you see before you was
once part OF the estate, but it went bit
by bit for not conforming; now it is
Crown land::''
God has more than made up to us
for this loss, for instead Of large es-
tates, he has given US large families.
We are proud to think our father was
one of twenty children. Yet present
up-to-date parents scorn such faith
er; but Il better man never ran to
hounds, or to the fence of duty, land
ing the other side.
Are these smart people who love
vanity really happy? How can they
be? You 11ave but to see them as
they sweep by doing the park in
their victorias to pity them almost to
tears.
Living the artificial life, not to say
unnatural life, they do how it is possi-
BILE for them, no matter to what tricks
Or arts they resort, TO appear other
wise than pitiable things, languid, list
less and lifeless?
1t is because they have no resources
of life in themselves and no interest
in their home and household affairs
that they are always seen elsewhere,
massed in groups almost to suffoca
ton, whether in the park or restaurant,
the gallery or the opera and theater.
With that mad passion for seeing
everything and being seen by every
body comes naturally enough the love
of dress paid for as Of course, is we'll
known by their --latest friend" There
are sins perpetrated on the social stage
grosser far than the sin Of ShyloclS de-
manding his pound of flesh.
With the thought of the judgment
to come, even With the love Of ones
country at heart, the present practices
of u section of society arc simply ter
rifying. If. like other ]epers, they
only bc kept apart from their fellows
With the warning cry "unclean, up-
clean upon their lips, it would not be
our business to refer to them at all.
But, unfortunately, they are not only
the Smart Set, but the pushing set.
always wanting to go "one better
than any one else in their salles de
je,lx. If we speak out we do so that
all the world may know there is not
one law for the rich and another for
for all.