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Show DISPLAY OF CENICS. . j It seems to us as if a very simple precaution could be adopted" whereby greater domestic felicity would be insured in-sured to the American people than at present falls to their lot. No one who will read the newspapers can fail to notice that the principal attraction to the men who put their neighbors' wives to their lips and thereby keep the press in seductions, divorce suits, Brooklyn scandals, shootings, etc., is generally the fact that the women are their neighbors' wives. "Sweet," says the wise man, "are stolen waters." Let any woman, be she old as the Rf publican ana homely-enough homely-enough to dry up a blind cow, on ly m arry , and forth with some idiot will- be found to .persue her.- What the Globe consequently conse-quently proposes is, that every man hall marry some one else's wife. Thus, let the officiating clergyman save up hiB bridegrooms and brides till he lias four or more on hand, and then proceed to cross-marry them, uniting Mr. A.'b inamorata, the fair Miss A., to Mr. B., uhd wedding Mr. B.'s love, the dashing widow B., to Mr. A., and so on. Then, possiblv, a quadrille before the altar, the organ furnishing the music, they can change partners. In this manner the right man will get the woman he loves, and his wedded blist. will be increased by the reflection that, technically, it is infidelity. This plan seems to us easy, feasible, and likely to prove satisfactory. sat-isfactory. St. Louis (j'fube. |