Lexington union. (Lexington, Miss.) 1838-18??, 1839-06-22
NO. 30.

home. She knows no difference between
the beautiful and the ugly. The husband
grows old; familiarity prevents the wife
from seeing The change. On the contrary,
should the wife remain young and beauti-
full, and the husband became old, the con-
sequences might be unhappy; for the old
are sometimes jealous and exacting. II is
better as it has been ordered, in wisdom
and love, by the Almighty Father. If
you should become wihered old woman.
and your husband remain a blooming
youth, how could you expect to retain his
hean?'
"Alast ! know not!' sighed Louise.
/" | will tell you," continued her aunt,
/" two things, which I have fully proved.
The first will 60 far toward preventing
the possibility Of any discord; the second
is the best and surest preservation of fem
imne charms"
Tell mel" said Louise, anxiously.
The first is this: demand of your
bridegroom, as soon as the marriage cere-
mony is over, solemn vow, and promise
also yourself, never even in jest, to dispute
or express any disagreement; tell you
NEvER!-lor what begins in mere banter
ing, will lead to serious earnest. Avoid
expressing any irritation at one another's
words. Mutual forbearance is one great
secret of domestic happiness. If you
have erred, confess it freely, even if con-
tesslon cost you some tears. Farther,
promise faithfully and soemnly, neper,
upon any pretext or excuse, TO have any
secrets or concealmonts from each other;
but keep your private affairs from father,
mother, brother, sister, relations, and tho
world. Let them be knorn only to each
other. and your God. Remember that
any third person admitted into your conf
dence becomes a party to stand between
you. They will naturally side with ono
or the other. Promise 10 avoid this, and
renew the vow upon every temptation. Il
will preserve that perfect confidence, that
union, which shall indeed make you az
one. Oh, if the newly married would bur
|praclice this simple duty, this secret spring
Of connubial peace, how many unions
would be happy, that are now miserabIew
Louise kissed fervently, the hand Of her
aunt, and said: Il see Il all. Where
there IS not tiiis implicit confidence, the
pair remain, even after their marriage,
as strangers: They cannot understand
each other; and without mutual confidence
there can be no real happiness. And how.
dear aunt, what is the best means Of pre-.
serving female beauty?n
Her aunt smiIingly answered: eve
cannot conceal from ourselves that we love
and admire what ia beautiful, more than
what is not; but what peculiarly pIeases.
what we really call beautiful, is not hair
or complexion, form or color. These nav
please in picture or statue; but 10 life,
II is the mind, the soul, which displays il
self in every look and word, and charms
alike in JOY or sorrow This, too, is ex-
pected from, and alone renders worthy Of
love, beautiful exterior. We find vi
cous man hateful and disgusting, even il
polished and elegant in manners and ap-.
pearance. A young female who would
retain the love and admiration Of her bus
band, after the charms Of person which
had attracted him have vanished, must
keep bright, and constant play, the gvaces
of the mind, the virtues of the soul. Wis
dom and prudence do not always increase
with years, while faults and passions gen.
orally do. Virtue, however, cannot change.
II Is the same throughou; eternity; unal-
terable, like its divine author. Ii, there
fore, you would preserve your union inyi-
olate and happy, upon earth, and be reuni-
ted TO the beloved one in heaven, keep
your heart with oil diligence::' SO shall
you retain that spiritual beauty, that more
perfect loneliness. which your husband
will love and admire, long after the cheek
has faded; and the form lost its SYMMETRY.
! am not hypocritical devotee, nor an
old woman, dead to all the pleasures and
enjoyments Of life. l am but seven.and
twenty. | enter with avidity into The
pleasures and feelings Of the world; but I
shy TO you, there is no other security for
enduring happiness"
Louise threw her arms round the neck
Of her aunt, and kissed her tenderly.
NIP.