Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1826-04-20
Chapter 1.
INTRODUCTORY REMARKS.

Chapter l.
INTRODUCTORY REMARKS.
GENTLE lady, my whisper to your
husband is ended. From you mo
ment's attention ID now elaine by
soidotoed ,cife, whose bridal morning
rose as brlgat as yours; whose youth
ful heart loved with all womans
love- and who anxiously wishes TO
secure ior her interesting sisters, that
first and most important OF all wife's
pnrsuIt-the confidence and affection
OF her husband.
You are now become a wife; and
sacred aud important are the duties you
have to fulfil Your husband mas he
slowed on you most tlatterlng distinc.
ton: he has selected you from the
world; and the chain nc has put on can
be broken only by death! BE 1t your
care never to lei him feel this chain, and
by your Kindness and gentleness make
BIN even forget he wears it,
A bride, wherever she appears, is
ever considered an object OF impor
tance and subject for remark. --
Have you seen the bride:"ls the eager
and general question: and what she
does, VIVA, size says, what she wears.
and how she looks, swell the insight,
ficant chat OF every gossip's visil Let
the notice which you thus xcite, make
you particularly observant of your
manner aud conduct; and give the bu
sy whisperer no food for "a new sar-
casm in the next importation of title
tattle.
a bride is generally Gndeed | think
always, )proud OF the new character she
has entered on; and unless she is wo.
man of sense, fond of exhibiting the
love she has inspired. Pursue differ
ent course. let your manner to your
husband be kind and good humoured;
bul sacred to the hours ofretirement be
those expressions and that display of
endearment, which, used in public,
argue IN loud terms want of true
dellcacy, and are ever particularly
disagreeable to the spectator.
The first inquiry oil woman alter
marriage should be, Glow shall
continue the love | have inspired? How
shall ! preserve the heart | have won?"
Gentle lady, at the present moment
your husband thinks you the loveliest,
the gentless Of beings. Destroy not
the allusion: be lovely still, be gentle
still. The long and dreae road that
lies through the wilderneS of life is
stretched before you; and by a chain,
the links of which no human power can
break, you are bound to q companion
with whom. hand in hand, you must,
walk through this long, long road For
The sake then of peace, for the sake Of
happiness, for the sake of self, Chat
most powerful feeling) brighten the
way by endeavourlng to make yourself
amiabIe and pleasing to him.
The great DR.. johnson. with his
Usual strength of expression, laments,
in the following words, the conrasted
manner which freqnently occur be-
fore & after marriage.-"One would
think, the whole endeavour of both
parties during the time of courtship is
TO hinder themselves from bling known
Ito disguise their natural temper and
real desires in hypocritical imitation,
studied compliance, and continued
aBectation. From the time that their
love Is avowed, neither sees the other
lot IN mask; and the cheat is often
managed on both sides with so much
art, and discovered afterwards with so
much abruptness, that each has reason
to suspect that some Transformation has
happened on the wedding night, and
that by strange imposture, as in the
ease OF Jacob, one has been coulted
and another married."