The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1830-01-20
From the Richmond Telegraph.

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WHEN, AND WHOM is IT SAFE TO MARRY.
/. Young ladies ought not to marry at Is
or 10 or IL, they are too young-know
nothing about housekeeping and providing
for family, &c.
<. They ought not to marry until they
have got consent of their mind to give up
tight lacing-because the married state
should be free from bondage, and compress
SION, and oppression, &c.
8. A young lady should not marry until
she has got the consent of her mind to obey
her husband. Because if she cannot, and
VIII not obey her husband, she does not
love hlm-obedience is the strongest evil
dence OF love. These are some of the times
when young ladies ought not to marry.
Now I say,
L. Ihey ought not to marry young
man who, whom he comes to address tae m,
can stay week or two-such an one will
be likely to love the fire and the house too
well-wlll not go to the barn-and the new
ground, the cornfeld &c., often enough.
Z. Never marry young man without
some occupation by which he could support
a family. He will be apt to need the pro-
ceeds of such occupation, when the trade
must be learned. Say, if you marry him,
he must be doctor not a quack-a lawyer,
not pettyogger-a merchant, on his own
capital, not a borrowed one-a shoemaker.
not cObbler: haze the thing itsel-G farmer,
or mechanic of some order, if he be a
basket maker, have the profitable occupation
IN the bargain, don't marry without it.
8. Never marry young man who wears
tlne clothes, and swears profanely-because
If he will not treat his Makers laws with
reverence, he is very unapt to treat you
kindly and with respect-moreover he who
swears will lie, and of all characters a liar
is to be detested and avoided and not chosen
as companion.
A. A young lady should not marry a
young man who is in the habit of gambling,
attending hOrSe-rGces and MedtreS-5ecause
he will, ten to one, spend every cent of his,
and his wife's estate, and bring her at last
TO beggary. Reformed gamblers are not
safe. would advise no young lady to marry
one at least under ten years reformation.
S. A young lady will be very unsafe in
marrying a young man who uses ardent
spirits, either temporarily or Unexpectedly
because more women have been rendered
wretched on account of drunken husbands
than any one thing else. Don't marry
gets clear of this awful disease If YOU
want to be miserable-if you want bah
blings-if you want wounds without cause
"a husband with red eyes, &c., marry
man who drinks, loho takes q little, and YOU
are more likely to have the above enjoy
ments than in marrying any other character
If man can't give up his dram, he can
sacrifice the happiness, or property of any
Ilu TIL Qnf Ill.
hear some one say by this time" where
are young ladies to get husbands? You
lop so close you leave US none? o yes
of life. Don't marry profane swearer-a
gambler-an inddel-one who takes O. little
"a debaucher-a man without an occupa-
marry either. Young ladies, remember
yonr souls salvation is involved in your
marriage-then look to God for direction.
Of all the periods and events of life, the
concluding scene is the one of deepest in
terest to the person himself, and to sur
viving spectators. Various are the ways in
which it comes, and various the aspects it
presents; but in all it is solemn. What
can he more so, than the approach of that
moment, which, to the dying man, is the
boundary between time and eternity which
concludes the one and commences the 9TH
err; which terminates all his interests in this
world, and fixes his condition for a never
ending existence in the world unknown
What can be more so than those moments
OF silent and indescribable anxiety, when
the last sands of the numbered hour are
running when the beat of the heart has
become too languid to be felt at the ex-
tremities of the frame when the hand re-
turns not the gentle pressure; when the
limbs lie still and motionless; when the
eye is fixed, and the ear turns no more to-
wards the voice of consoling kindness;
when the breath, before oppressive and la
borious, becomes feebler and feebler till it
dies slowly away-and to the listening ear
there is no sound amidst the breathless
silence, nor to the arrested eye, that watch
es with the unmoving look of thrilling solic-
tude for the last symptom Of remaining life,
s motion longer perceptible when sur
rounding friends continue to speak in whis-
pers, and to step through the chamber on
the tiptoe of cautiousness, as if still fearful of
disturbing him-whom the noise of a thou
sand thunders could not now startle-who
has fallen on that last sleep, from which
nothing shall rouse but "the voice of the
archangel, and the trumpet of God"
Wardla,c.
The original shrewdness and simplicity
of childhood often raise blush on the
faces Of instructors, as we doubt not, the
reply, at the close of the following anecdote
did on that of the reverend interrogation,
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