Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1887 — Some Marital Musings. [ARTICLE]

Some Marital Musings.

“Why do husbands drop their loverlike ways ?” inquires a correspondent, who signs herself “Neglected Wife.” Permit us to answer the query, in a measure, by another marital conundrum: “Why do wives cease to be sweethearts to their husbands?” Usually human beings are so constituted that satiety is the complement of possession. The game is delightful while the pursuit continues, and a captured deer within the pale of the park is but a trifle more interesting than any other domesticated animal. ’Tis said “A woman likes to be possessed, ” and she frequently is—possessed of the d , but we’ll let that pass. On the other hand, a man likes to have and to hold. And sometimes he does have to hold pretty tightly to the dear of his choice lest she makes secret choice of some other dear. Marriage is a lottery, especially when the husband comes home with a lot-o-rye on board. Again, when frosty December is wed to blooming May, May, perhaps, will never love, though December May. Moreover, the kiss of coming and going, so frequent and delightful during the honeymoon and for a short period after, falls to desuetude, for the hum of business and the drum of enterprise, in a paradoxical way, turn love and home hum-drum. Then when infantile reduplications repeat in smaller pattern paternal features, each discovers that love, so fair in fiction allegoric, colic, cramps, and membranous croup turn paregoric, —Texas Siftings.

Cavendish, in 1766, discovered hydrogen, and between 1774 and 1779 Priestley discovered oxygen, azote, and nitrous gas. Postoffices were first established in Paris in 1462; in England, 1581; in Germany, 1641; in Turkey, 1740.