The Home.

Lake County Press, Issue 907, 19 April 1900, Page 2

The Home.

Miserable, Though Married

Joseph Hatton, in the Newcastle (Eng.) " Weekly Chronicle." has the foflowing sharp rap at the "new morality" : "If you are married, you must be miserable. This seems to be the doctrine of certain philosophers in petticoats. The parable has been taken up by the sympathetic male. True and noble love desires no legal ties. It wants uo marriage- bonds. It must live its poem as the birds of the air and the beasts of the field live theirs. That is the idea of 'The Woman Who Did.' It was the notion of ' 1 Forbid the Banns,' and the first of the trio which was called 'Tiie New Antigone.' It is the underlying motif of * The Notorious Mrs. Ebbsmith.' And yet neither the dramatists nor the novelists bring the high-souleJ female through her experiment with any satisfaction to herself, to,the man she leads astray, or to the audiences who sit at the feet of the preachers and follow'their problems. It is a weary business, flat, stale, and unprofitable. Better the audacious Epicurean philosophy of Theophile Gautier than this hysterical dalliance with a 'new morality' that English authorship exploits in a preamble and au interrogation." Love's Failures and Follies. There is a jaundiced egotism (says Joseph Hatton. in the Newcastle (Eng.) "Weekly Chronicle") in the new gospel of marital misery, a poor disappointed selfishness in the plea for free love. The most jaundiced pessimist must admit that there are happy marriages, homes of sweet content, men and women united in legal bonds who go through life to the end in a blissful companionship. When Mr. Mallock asked " Is life worth living ?" he had to confess that it. is waste of labour to try and convince a happy man that he really must be miserable. But this is the attitude of certain men and women who have failed as lovers, married or single, towards those who Lave not. Every writer of poetry or fiction, every essayist draws his illustrations of life from his own experiences. Those who have been most disappointed make the most noise with their spluttering pens, and just now it would seem as if the men and women who have proved marriage to be a failure in their particular cases had seized the world by the throat and were banging the universal head about in an impotent rage. It is hard upon the majority of decentminded men and women that the Pessimism of Disappointment should make so much noise, and harder still that it should use indecent language and tell prurient stories : but the world is always more or less afflicted with one craze or another : and we must bear with the sexual outbreak until the public, is tired of paving publishers to have it expounded and the shillings cease to rattle : nto the " Pay Here" box of the theatres. Then this liierary rallies will be eclipsed by some other calenture of the brain. One onlv hopes that the succeeding folly will be'more harmless and less unpleasant.. «; Salt: Some of Its Usos. Salt has a place in every household. Goodwives. and it is useful for other purposes than that of merely seasoning our food. A bag of hot salt applied to temples that ache and throb with neuralgic pain will give relief to the sufferer speedily, and this remedy is the morn to be commended that it is always procurable and costs little—even in the matter of trouble ! Salt and -water is said to to be a good dentrifiee also, and while it cleanses the teeth it hardens the gums. If you drop a little salt amongst your starch, whether that be cold or hot. you will not be annoyed with sticking irons. The discolouration which appears at. in-tervals-on our teacups and saucers can be removed by the application of damn salt.