The Wilmingtonian, and Delaware register., 1824-12-09
MARRIAGE.

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MARRIAGE.
I have often remarked the cagerness Fall
classes of people to read or hear the accounts
of marriages. $50! John has taken to him-
self wife, cries one. "Ah, there has
been a wedting," cries another. Lack a
day." exclaims an old lady, $50 Betty has
gct husband at last" and each is anxious
to know all the particuiars-who married
them-who was there-how the bride was
dressed, and so on. On such occasions have
particularly noticed, that the men seem to
sympathisc chiefly with the ebrldegroom,f IRON
the cause probably that each has been, or ea-
pected to be in the same delicate and inter-
csting situation of the persons for whom their
sympathies are excited. The reason is not
difficult to explain. There is no circum-
stance in life half so interesting as that of en-
tering into the holy band OF woodlock.
choice is made OF a companion tor lite, tor
good or evil, for prosperity Or adversely, ior
veal or wo ; OF in the good old set terms OF
ceremonial, 6 fer better or for worse ihen,
too, the new clothes, .hc solemn ceremony,
the wedding banquet, to render this period
of life far more interesting than any other.
Look forward through the kaleidoscope OF
Hope, it presents to the young imagination
an infinite variety OF splendid and beautiful
imagery, which charms like illusions ct the
Persian Genii in the Fairy Tales. The
Young man hopes his turn may come, and
dare not sketch the picture ct bliss his fancy
draws. The girl from budding fifteen
through blushing twenty up to ripencd wo,
manhood, feels, as she hears the account ol
{ wedding, soft thrill, vibrating like the
: treble chord Of the piano, through every
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; throbs quicker she brcathes with hurried
respiration, yet not painfully; no image that
she need blush for, ever casts its passing
r form across her pure mind, yet she bushes
her eve brightcns; her lips assume deeper
stain of the strawberry, she laughs and won
ders what als her, for how is she Interested
The old married people are differently at
fected. and vet they are affected. Memory
busily employed in brushing away the cob
: webs of Time Tand that time is a very III
i dustrious spider, from the picture of thei
p connubial bliss.--'The husband chucks hi
dcary under the chin, and instead OF ad
, dressing himself to her as " Mrs. Maulty,
c or whatever her name may be, calls her Viz
: gin name" My dear Lucy Howard ant
: She answers with modest caress, which
speaks most eloquently OF the days gone ny
: Mean while the old Bachelor and old Max
c forget the chair is not big enough Tor them
o The old codger whom no one pitics, but ev
If cry one in turn laughs at as Il "lusty OH
bachelor" very probably recalls to recollcc
u tion one, who in the days of youth reciprocal
II cd with him the tcnderest feelings Of aifec
: ton. One who listened to the music OF hi
.. voice with delight; who watched his comln
- with anxious eye; whose ready car disting
- ruishcd the sound of his footstep from amen
/ an hundred who -promiscd--withcl
i ed before the nuptial hour gave him the righ
,s to pillow her throbbing head i'll his bosom
and died. Or the lone virgin, designated b
the unfeeling world, as an "Oid Maid,
may mourn in the depth Of suppressed grie
ruddy youth, of manly brow and galar
bearing, whom the CT warns ofthc ocean hav
s. troubled or who, dead to his plighted taiti
is may have sought in the asns OF wealth tc
c. that happiness with true love can alone I'M
- part. All, all are Interested.
y But the world what does it care? thos
he who are intent on gain, who worship gold &
a. their God, and have no synrathies uncol
nected with lucrc! Verify they too, arc IL
:, terested in marriages. Sitting in my cas-
NJ chair, these thoughts were passing in IN
es mind, when I dozed and dreamed fea
in was getting up, and a large number it ",
III thought would Acknowledgment entere'
ho lighted by his torch, and a crowd pressed
the door, but no one was to be admitted Ii!
es til some satisfactory reason was assgne
II how the person came in lIymen's compan
he mo one will doubt said the ministe
,;s ''my right here, for who could have perforn
- cd the ceremony were absent'" and seatt
," himself in a large easy chair.-"My wo
les ship" said justice Of the peace, "could
ge the knot as tight as your reverence"
;fv merchant followed with bills of rich sill
| &
of and every variety OF elegant patterns
OF wedding dresses. The mantua maker al
Je- taylor close upon his heels. "They mu
,ns certainly have bureaus and probably CT
- die" said a cabinet maker as he passed
:, long. "And chairs and sattee," said Il
me chair maker. At that instant doctor a
its. peared; Hymcn declared he could not co
re, cceive how disciple of Esculapius could