Salt Lake Herald | 1890-10-19 | Page 4 | Better as it Is

BETTER AS IT IS If it be true as has been telegraphed that the engagement between ALFRED WILKINSON and WIXNIE DAVIS has been broken off it is doubtless tho best thing that could have taken place for both of I them Romantic as the proposed alliance would have been it would not have been a happy one unless all the conditions which I common sense people look upon as essential essen-tial to happiness had failed in this case His H-is the son of a prominent abolitionist a man who along with LLOYD GARRISON WENDELL PHILLIPS HORACE GREELEV and others of that class was a founder of the Republican psrty when it meant opposition to the south and everything southern Naturally he would inherit all the prejudices preju-dices of his paternity and she while womanly enough and gentle enough to seaside se-aside her family idols in the presence of her husband would still be southern enough and heroine enough to retain I them in her heart of heartsand with Immovable difference caSUChuo I between them in fact is it unreasonable to suppose thatjit would not sooner or later have made itself apparent in their demeanor de-meanor toward each other if not to tho world It would have been a very romantic marriage mar-riage and the culmination of quite a sensational I sen-sational idea But while romance cannot be altogether set aside and sentiment is a feeling Jo be encouraged lives cannot live and souls cannot blend iftho underlying instincts in-stincts married peoples lives run in different dif-ferent grooves Marriage is too often in these days made a matter of convenience of opportunity op-portunity of necessity or of infatuation instead oftbeing a union of two souls with I but a sin i lg though and that thought tho outgrowth the better judgment the I more matu wisdom of our species In butr few things are we more careless of proper conditions than in marriage and in I I nothing should we be more careful WINNIE is winsome and accomplished There are plenty or young men in the south whoso hearts beat responsive to her own and who are otherwise as well qualified quali-fied to be her husband as is Mr WILKINSON WILKIN-SON We hope she will accept of one of these and be as happy as GOD ever permits any of His wilful and erring children to be