Virginia free press & farmers' repository. [volume] (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1827-1832, 1832-03-29
coBBErr. ON THE MARRIED LirE.

n pare glance at the thing shows that
. farmer, shove all men living, can ne.
yer carry on his affairs with profit
without wife, or mother, or daugh-
ter. or some person. To be surs .
wife would cost you some trouble per-
hsPs young man. There may be the
doctor or the nurse to gallop after at
midnight; there might be, there ought
TO be, and there must be, if called for,
. little complaining Of late hours; but
what are these and all other troubles
that could attend married life-what
are they to one single circumstance of
the want ola wife at your own bedside
during one single night Of illness? A
nurse! what is q nurse TO do for you?
Will she do the things that wife will
do: Will she watch your looks and
motions and your half uttered wishes?
Will she use the earnest persuasions
80 often necessary to save life in such
casesf Will she BY her acts convince
you that II Is not n toll, but q delight
to break her rest for your sakel In
short, now il is that you find that what
women say is safety true, namely,
that without wives, men are poor hap.
less nortais.
As TO the expense, there is no COM
parison between that Of a woman ser.
want and that Of wife, in the house
OF . farmer or . tradesman. The
wages Of the former is not the expense;
It IL the want OF = common interest
with you; and this you can obtain in
no one but wife. But there are the
children. ], for my part, firmly be-
lieve that farmer. married at twenty.
five, and having ten children during
the ten first years, would be able to save
more money during these years. than
. bachelor Of the same age would be
able to save on the same farm, in q
like space Of time, he keeping only
one maid servant. One single fit Of
sickness Of two months duration,
might sweep away more than all the
children would cost in the ten years,
to say nothing of the continual waste
and pillage, and the idleness going on
from the first day Of the ten years to
the last.
Besides, is the money alla What a
life TO lead! No one TO talk with with.
ont goiag from heme, or getting some
one to come to you no pleasant eve.
ming TO pass! Nobody TO share with
yop your SORROWS OF your pleasures: no
soul having . common interest with
you; all around you taking care of
themselves, and no care Of you: no
one TO cheer you in moments of de.
preston; to say ell in word, no one
TO love you, and no prospect Of ever
seeing any such one to the end Of your
days.
For, as 10 parents and brethren IL
you have them, they have other and
different ties: and however laudsble
your feelings 80 son OF brother, those
Feelings are of different character.
1t does very well in bantsriDg songs
to cav that bachelors life 10 adeyosd
Of care" My observation tells me
the contrary, and reason cencurs in
this regard, with experience. When
he quits his home he carries with him
cares that are unknown to the married
man. IL indeed like the common sol
diers, he has merely Q ioJging place,
and bundle Of clothes given 10 charge
OF some one, he may be at his ease;
but, 1t ne possesses any thing Of .
home, he 10 never sure of safety; and
this uncertainty is q great enemy to
eheertuIness: and rs 10 efficiency in
life, how is the bachelor to equal the
married? In the case Of the farmers
and tradesmen, the latter have 90
clearly the advantage over the former,
that one ueed hardly insist upon the
point, but IL is and must be the same
~ all situations in life. To provide
tor wife and children is the greatest
OF ell spurs TO exeTtiOn. Many q man
naturally prone TO idIeness has be
Gene active and industrious when he
sac family around him, many . dull
sluggard has become. if not a bright
man, ~ least = busting man, when
reused to exertion by his love. Indeed,
" man will not exert himself for che
sake Of . wife and children, he eau
have no exeFtion or he must be dead
10 all the dictates 6f nature.
DHehess Of Q,ietns6ilry. -. When
young and unmarried, lady Rochester
her mother, had bespoken her = court
dressi and such . dress being At thai
tine very costly, a piece ef cheaper
silk vas pot into The back part Of che
peti;eoat under the train, which 80 Of
Tended the young lady, that she dresi
herself eth the back Psrtof her petit
eoet ~ front. To expose her mother
frugaiiiy.-Miss HatckiHs' aaecdofss
When the late Marquis of London
derry was Secretary of State, = ffiepd
one day N familiar conversation, tOSl
The liberty Of ssking HIM why in his Of
heia' appointments he did not promote