Year: 1869




1t was once claimed by Benedic. who
spoke from observation and actual personal
experience, that even after years of court
ship ending in marriage, it was still neces>
sari7 in the blessed state to court ones wife.
and that that courtship was terribly arduous,
very tedious and extremely unpleasant. In
the go,1d society in which he and his wife
moved, we're numbers of free, dashing youths
of irrepr easibly amorous propensities, who
made love 10 all women, especially to young
married ones, and we're allowed by the latter
an extraordinary latitude, which, in some
circles, would have been pronounced scan
dalous. The young husband could not re-
press feelings of deep jealousy, and often
made up a determination to do something
desperate in the way of suicide, of killing
his flirting wife, or of coffee aud pistols at
six in the morning. He was married, how
ever, and of course his wife, although some-
what fond Of admirers and neglected her
husband, was "an innocent dear thing" 1t
would therefore never do for him to give way
to his feelings and he would forgive and for.
get. At every social gathering from home
his mind was similarly exercised by the too
polite attention of swains 10 his wife, At
home another nuisance troubled him. There
was the indispensable young and handsome
family physician always happened to drop in
to enquire" during the husbands ABSENCE.
and generally met the latter coming in as he
was going out. Then, again, the professor
of music had most inconvenient hours for
calling to give lessons, and prolonged the
latter to most aggravatiDg length of time,
during which be would blandly inform the
husband that he must not be disturbed.
Whether away from home or at home, it
mattered not, he was "plugued." 1t all end
ed in his procuring divorce, and his limo.
cent dear thing" was spurned by her former
fashionable friends, and wrought at the wash.
tub for q livelihood. He advises young
men to marry their wives conditionally or on
probation for one or two years, but as for
himself be declares that if be had to live
thousand lives none of them should be in
married state, single blessedness, in his esti,
nation, being, indeed, single blessedness.


A Benedict in this city has just had sim
liar experience. His wife is very pretty, and
is the mother of three beautiful children.
One of the latter desired 10 learn music, and
teacher was engaged. The mother, soon
after, thought she would like to improve her
own playing and singing, and became also
pupil of the Professor. Shortly after, she
fell in love with the latter, or he fell in love
with her, and the result was an eloPement;
apartments in house in the West Division,
and, for some time, occasionally visited her.
Soon bis visits became ..eW and far between,
and each interview witnessed tears and sup.
plications on her part, and imprccatlOns and
threats on his. At last she was compelled
to take in washing in order to earn sufficient
money to support her and the youngest
little child, whom she had carried OF from
her happy home in the North Division at the
time of her elopement. The wrctched moth
er and her innocent child are the only in>
mates Of tumble-down, rickety abode, and
know not how the next mouthiul of food is
to be obtained, while the villainous Professor
whose false promises had much to do with
the mothers infdelity and sin, is still the
gay, heartless wretch, and goes his daily
rounds, giving lessons in music, or, 1t may
be, in depravity, to young girls. The fellow
it is stated, will probably appear IN Oneiot the
Police Courts in day or two to answer to
serious charges brought against him by the
woman he SO basely induced to leave home
and then deserted. For the present we
withhold the names Of the unhappy actors
in this unhappy piece.-Ch'cago Journal