Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1826-05-11
MISCELLANEOUS:
WHISPER TO NEwLY-MARRIED PAIR.
A Whisper to the Wife.
Continued from our last

Continued from ottr last
cannot express the grea. dlssatls
I faction feel at hearing married wo
men laugh at and ridicule ladies VII,
I are advanced IN life, and still renair
; single--females who probably in every
respects are decidedly superior to the
lady who treats them with contempt
aod who perhaps remain single merely
because they posses. more dellcacv Of
mind, and are not 50 easily pleased IL
The choice of husband. Various are
the causes which may occur 10 keep a
woman single: duty, prudence and.
not unfrequently, consistency to be
loved object; while a swarm Of misses,
strangers to sentiment, TO delicacy
and to good sense, merely, from their
eagerness TO become wives, clasp the
cham of Hymen, and inconsiderately
link themselves IN the same moment
to matrimony and misery, in the form
of some petit met, Or anuquated beau.
Some wives, in order to display
their own superiority 10 their hus bands,
are very fond OF lessening and under.
vaiuing the merit OF o. her wives: be
above such paltry artIfice; II is both un-
generous aud unprincipled
SHOULD you, gentle lady, be in the
decline of life, allow me to bring to
your recollection the emphatical ad-
dress OF St. Paul to aged women,
where he charged them TO teach the
young women TO be sober, TO love
their husbands, to love their children,
TO be discreet, chaste, keepers at home,
good ohedient to THEN own husbands
that the word of God he not blasphem
ed (It. ID 4, 5.)-When the apostle
speaks of keeping at home he seems
impressed with the calm, unob,ruslve
ret,rementoitha domestic spher which
Providence and nature have assigned
TO women. Strongly, indeed, does he
seem influenced by it when he says,
she that hveth in pleasure is dead while
she Iiveth. Il Tim, v g.
Chapter ".
ON DOMESTIC &c oNoMy.
would recommend to ever woman,
if possible, on her marriage, to get some
ear y allowance, though ever SO triAing
settled on her Believe me, the little
unavoidable demands OF her husband S
purse, to which wife is SO frequently
compelled to have recourse, is very
apt to create pickering and discard;
and that at the very moment perhaps
when all is peace and harmony be-
tween them: and when once good hu
mour is put out OF the way, 1t is not
such very easy matter, rely on it, to
bring it back again to its old course
Conscientiously manage your hus.
bands property, and shpn every APP.
proach to eXtravigance. The domes
tic economy Of a family is las an ad
mired writer remarks) entirely wo
mans province, and furnishes a varle
yof SUBJECTS both for good sense and
good taste. The want OF economy
has involved thousands in misery and
in those houses where eXtravigance is
predominant, little is beheld but dis
order and confusion. Their families
are, in general, as dissipated and as
thoughtless as themselves Harmony
anu decorum, with their inseperable
companions, peace and happiness, are
guests that tind within such walls Meth
er residence no, repose.
In regard 10 money matters. some
wives seem to think that all is gain
winch they can get in any way from
their husband; without ever consider
ing that the state Of his purse is mat
TEL OF eqnal consequence 10 both.
Particular avoid every tang like
extseN asance ! really think crea,
deal 81 money IS frequently exrrndt q
in hnyrng thing which, after a " hi|e
we find we could have very well don,
without. The pleasure Of getting