The Illinois free trader and LaSalle County commercial advertiser. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1841-1843, 1841-10-01

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situation in the world, than single one
partly, because he is more stimulated /
= eXertlon by the necessities of the hclples
and beloved beings who depend upon hin
for subsistence, but chiefly because hi
spirits are soothed and relieved by domes
tic endearments, and his scIf-respcct KEEP
alive by finding that though all abroad i
darkness and humiliation, vet there is still
a little world of love at home, of which hi
is the monarch; whereas a single man il
apt TO run to waste and self-neglect, t
fancy himself lonely and abandoned, ant
his heart to fall to ruin like some deserted
mansion, for want of an inhabtant."
These observations call to mind little
domestic story, of which | was once the
witness. My intimate friend, Leslie, haC
married beautiful and accomplished girl
who had been brought up in the midst ot
fashionable life. She had, it is true, no
fortune, bat that of my friend was ample
and he delighted in the anticipation of in.
dulging her in every elegant pursuit, and
administering to those delicate tastes and
rancies that spread kind Of witchery
about the sex. oIlcrlife," said he. "shaIl
be like fairy tale"
The very difference in their characters
produced an harmonious combination.
! lie was of a romantic and somewhat scri.
Gus cast-she was all life and gIadncss.
| have often noticed the mute rapture with
which he would GAZE uoon her in COM
pany, of which her sprightly powers made
her the delight; and how in the midst of
applause, her eye would still turn to him,
as if there alone she SOUGHT favor and ac-
ccp,dnce. When leaning on his arm. her
slender form contrastcd finely with his
tall manly person. The fond, combine
air with which she looked mn to him
seemed to call forth flush of triumphant
pride and cherishing tenderness, as if he
doatcd ON his lovely burthcn for i,s very
hclplessness. Never did couple set for
ward on the llowerv path of early and
well suited marriage with laircr pros
pect of felicity.
1t was the mishap of nv friend howey-
err. TO have embarked his fortune in larrc
spcculalions, and he had not been married
many months, when, by succession off
sudden disasters, it was swept from him,
and ho found himself almost reduced to
penury. For a time he kept his situation
TO himself, and went about with hagrard
countenance and breaking heart. His
life was Inn, nrotr,c,ed agony. and what
rendered il more jnsupportable was the
necessity or kconing nm smile in the
presence of his wife. for he could not
brine himself TO oyerwhclm her with the
news She saw. however, with the ouick
oves If ofTsc,ion. that all WAS No, we'll
with him. She marked his altered looks
and slned sighs, and was not to be de-
ceiyed bv his sickly and vapid ot,emp,s
nj chcerlulncss. She tasked all her
spriuhllv mowers and tender bIandish. |
mems to win him back 10 honnjncss
but she only drove the arrow deeper into
his soul. The more he saw cause to
love her. the more torturing WAS the ,ho't
,ha, he was soon to make her wrelchcd.
A little while, though, he. and the smile
will vanish from that cheek-lhe song
will die away from those lips-lhe Iustre
of those ewes will be quenched with sor-
row and the happy heart which now