The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1828-10-08

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ing the damsels across -
We hold that every man behaves with
awkwardness when he is in love, and the
want of the one is presumption of the
absence of the other. When people are
fairly engaged, there is perhaps less of
this directly to the object but there is
still as much of it in her presence; but it
is wonderful how soon the most nervous
become easy when marriage has concluded
all their hopes. Delicate girl lust bud
ding into wonanly loneliness, whose heart
for the last ten minutes has been trembling
behind the snowy wall of thy fair and beau
tiful bosom, hast thou never remarked and
laughed at tall and much bewiskered
young man for the mauUa;se homie with
which ne handS 10 Jnee rny cup VI W..
tered souchong Laugh not at him again,
for he will assuredly be thy husband. Yes!
he will tremble for few months more as
he stands beside thy music stool, and Join
no others in the heartless mockery of their
praise but when every voice which has
commended thy song is hushed, and every
note which thou hast clothed in ETHEREAL
music is forgotten by all besides, to him it
will be theme to dream upon in his loneli-
ness, and everyslook which thine eye vouch-
safed to him will be laid up as a sacred and
holy thing in the Utmost sanctuary of his
secret soul. Thou wilt see in short time
that the tremulousness of his nerves is only
observed when his tongue is faltering in it's
addresses to thee pity will enter into thy
gentle heart, and myself wilt sometimes
turn the wrong page in the book of songs,
and strike the wrong note on thy double
grand piano, when thou knowest that his
drin in hu md
following thy minutest action. In few
months more-We see with prospective
clearness-thou art sitting at the same
piano in large and newly furnished room,
shutting thy candles every now and then
myself, and turning with thine own hands,
the leaves of the National Melodies, while
20, he's stretched along one of Mr..
Trotter's finest ottomas, fast asleep -
Love, when successful, is well enough,
and perhaps it has treasures of its own
to compensate for its inconveniencies but
a more miserable situation than that of an
unhappy individual before the altar, it is
not in the heart of man to conceive. First
of all, you are marched with solitary male
companion up the long aisle, which on this
occasion appears absolutely interminable
then you meet your future partner, dressed
ont in satin and white ribands, whom volt
are to meet IN gingham gowns e,.i;S-
prints every morning of your life ever after
There she is supported by her old father,
decked out in his old fashioned brown coat,
with wig of the same color, beautifully re-
lieving the burning redness Of his huge pro-
iecting ears; anu the mother, pulled up like
an overgroEn bolster, encouraging the
trembling girl, and joining her maiden aunts
of full fifty years in telling her TO take cour-
age, for it is what they must all come to.
Brides maids and mutual friends make up
the company and there, standing before
this assemblage, you assent to every thing
the curate, or if you are rich enough, the
rector, or even the dean may say, showing
your knock knees in the naked deformity of
white kerseymeres, to an admiring bevy
of the servants of both families, laughing
and tittering from the sources pew in the
gallery. Then the parting! The mothers
injunctions to the juvenile bride, to guard
herself from the cold weather, and to write
within the week. The maiden aunts' in
quires, of" My deer, have you forgot moth
ing ?"-the shaking of hands, the wiping
and winking of eyes! The lady all this
time seems not half so awkward. She has
her gown to keep from creasing, her vinai-
grette to play with !; besides, that all ner-
vousness is interesting and feminine, and
is laid 20 the score of delicacy and reserve.
SOLAR MICROSCOPE. Every day that is
unclouded, Mr. Carpenter, the optician, in
Regent-street, exhibits objects through So
lar microscope of an extraordinary power
His principal lenses being made upon the
late valuable Improvement, called the aero
matte lens, whereby the prismatic rays are
removed from the objects, and they appear
| in their native colors, only with more intense
! brilliancy. The most interesting and aston
| ishing part of the exhibition, is the repre-
sentatlon OF insects IN
water-the pure running stream, the stag
nant, and water taken from lead cistem.
Here we are suddenly introduced to the
company of creatures of the most fantastic
and even hideous shapes, four, five and six
inches long, which, to the naked eye, are
totally invisible, and all in the most energet-
I c and even violent action. These are seen
| by means of lens of a very high power
/ but the same liquid, subjected to test of the
opticians highest magnifyer, brings to view
still smaller objects, which before appeared
like minute and transparent specks. VI
these, that wonderful animalcule, called the
globe insect, is one which, from being
wholly invisible to the naked eye, suddenly
starts to our acquaintance of the. diameter Of
a small cheese plate. To nervous and
hypochondriac person, the occular proof of
the myriads of horrid and deformed shapes
he must unavoidably incorporate at every
mouthful of water he swallows, must be rath-
60 appalling to the rejecting and inquiring
mind; the exhibition is one of intense inter.
} est The infnity of space seems at the first
! thought more comprehensive than the infini-
, ty Of minuteness--but with Omnipotence
what is great and what is small
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