The Arkansas advocate., 1832-02-08

] to the frank impulses Of nature and feeling, and the disappointment falls keenly and heavily upon the vota- sies of wedieelz, when oneethe IT. revoeable vow is spoken. In the caustic language of N. de Argens in his ssPhi- ] losopiler turned ifcrmit;" woman who would please, carefully coneeals her faults, and this is woman's peculiar ta- lent. For six long months two persons study to cheat one another; at last they are joined in wedlock, and their dissim. uiation proves a mutual punishment during lfe.''
 We cannot say with Edward F'itz- gerald, that, sswe never saw bridal but our eyelds have been wet"-but. we have seen some; one at least, when we could have wept had not the fever of the world long before dried up the. fountain of OUT childish tears. It was a marriage for money-you might read hat in the miserly and decrepid form which drew up its pended proportions before the altar at the side of young, beautiful and simple hearted girl. She was pale; and her delicate little hand trembled as it adjusted the folds of her rich garments, and there was quiver about her fine mouth which told of re- pressed agony:-and, when the cere- mony began, she turned one hasty glance upon her ill-suited bridegroom, l and l could see her shrink from him, with slight but evident feelirg of dis l gust and abhorrence. l looked upon ] the bridegroom. He was regarding her with as much fondness as his cold and selfish heart was capable of; mis- erly ehuckie, as if he had just counted over his gold; the smile of an Ourang Outang. And was this the man to whom that beautiful creature was to be bound; a living and lovely being up on iifeiess corpse; beauty and green. ness upon barrenness and deeayi And her friends and her relatives; ;they stood clustering around her with their eyes fixed, not upon the agonized counte- nance of their victim, but upon the Ijewelry and gauds which adorned her. Fools-fools; knew they not that the victim of pagan immolation is as gau- dhy deeked when she is placed upon her 1 pile of consuming; and that her sacri- flee is far less terrible than that ofa young and lovely creature, made in the perfect similitude of angels, and glow 1 ing with rich and ardent affections,u the polluted shrine of Mammon. Alas! what could ever atone for this chaining of the human affections-this binding 1 floyeliness and innocence to age, dis ease and avarice! Sick at heart we turned away from the melancholy spec tacle, while these words of the immor- tai William Penn, rushed strongly upon our memory. "Oh-how sordia has man grownl-man, the noblest creature of the universe, as a God upon earth and the image of Him who made it. thus to mistake Earth for Heaven and worship gold for Godr
 If not for money, marry for love- Aye-and starve for it too; starve like the bride of Jafier. Love is very good thing lnits proper place. It will do very well-to talk of, especially in the alliance hour of moonlight evening. when the perfect stars are looking down from above, and the flow CTS ofSpringtide are glowing like ssi;sFasi s;sl stars beneath. Love sounds well in theory; it is beautiful in practice; 1t reads well in romance; it IS the soul of poetry. Love is blessed thing in the halls of affiuence; or even of compe- tence; but 1t is the mortal enemy of poverty. It's home is in the romance oi our young years, and when that nome IS violated as it too frequently IS, l ny the gnawing wants of existence, think ye the beautiful idol will survive the utter desolation of it's temple?- Believe 1t not. There are, connected with the marriage state of the loving and the poor, a thousand difficulties: a thousand evils, unknown and unheeded in the delirium of young affection. For a time the unfortunate lover may bear I Inp against evils which increase with the dawning of every morrow; he may sacrifice ease and personal convenience; ]; l l he he may teil on in uneeasingbut hope less energy, and still hide from the beautiful young creature who has given herself upto adream of love, the doubts N fears which darken & distracth his own bosom A few months or years more and this dream is broken in upon; 4 L f 1T