Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 October 1875 — A Happy Couple. [ARTICLE]

A Happy Couple.

A man should always be a little older, a little braver, and a little stronger, and a little wiser, and a little more in love with her than she is with him. A woman should alwaysme a little younger, and a little prettier, and a little more considerate than her husband. He should bestow upon her all his worldly goods, and she should take good care of them. He may owe her every care and tenderness that affection can prompt; but pecuniary indebtedness to her will become a burthen. Better live on a crust that he earns than on a fortune she has brought him. « Neither must be jealous, nor give the other cause for jealousy. Neither must encourage sentimental friendships with the opposite sex. Perfect confidence in each other, and reticence concerning their mutual affairs? even to members of their own families, is a first necessity. A wife should dress herself becomingly whenever she expects to meet /her husband’s eye. The man should not grow slovenly, even at home. Fault-finding, long arguments or scoldings end the happiness that begins in kisses and love-mak, ing. Sisters and brothers may quarrel and,“make up.” Lovers are lovers longer after disturbances occur, and married people who are not lovers are bound by red-hot chains. If a man admires his wife most in striped calico, she is silly not to wear it— Exchange. A Texas Judge is credited with the following neat decision:. “The fact is Jones, th? jail is an old, rickety affair as’ cold as an iron wedge. You applied’ to this Court for release on bail, giving it as your opinion that you would freeze to death there. The weather has not moderated, and to keep you from freezing I will direct the Sheriff to hang you at four o’clock this afternoon.” Sweetness and lighfe(Move match.