Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1843-06-16
WOMAN AND MARRIAGE,
By Washington Ering


| have specuIRted great deal upon
matrimony | have seen young and
beautiful womsn, the pride Of gay cir
cIes, married 60 as the world says-weIl!
Some has moved into costly houses, and
their friends have all come and looked
at their furniture, and their splendid ar
rangemenI for happiness, and they have
gone away and committed them to their
sunny hopes cheerfuIIy without fear
II 10 natural for the young TO be san
euine, and ct such times | am carried
away vita similar feelings. | love to
get unobserVed into a corner, and watch
The bride in her white attire and with
her smiling face and her soft eyes NOV
ing before me in Inc pride Of life, weave
a waking dream OF her mture happiness,
and persuade myself that ii will be true.
| think how they will sit upon The Iuxu-
rous sofa, as The twilight falls, and build
gay hopes and murmur in love tones
the now unforbidden tenderness, and
how lhrlIlngly the allowed kiss, and
the beautiful enjesrnents Vi welded
llIe, will make even that parting jovous,
and how gladly they will come back
from the crowd and the empty mirlh Of
the gay to each others quiet company.
picture 10 myself that young creature,
who bushes even now, at his hesilaling
caress, listening eagerly for his fool
Steps ns the night steals on, and wishing
that he would come. and when he enters
at last and with an affection as Undyiug
as bis pulse, folds her TO his arms, can
feel lhe very tide flowing through hi;
heart, and gaze with him on her grace
ful form. as she moves obont him fol
the kind Offices Of affection, soothing al
his unquol cares, and making him for
get even bimSeIi, in her young ard On
shadowng beauty,
go forward for years, and see hel
uxurianl hair put soberIy away from
her brow, and her glrish graces riper
into dignity, and her bright IoveDnes'
chaslened with The genDleness OF mater
nal affection Her huS band looks on heI
with proud eye, aud shows her tht
same fervent love and delicate attention
" hich first won her; and children are
growing up about them, and 60 on ful
Of honor and Unlroubed years, and are
remembered when they die!
say ! love 10 dream thus when | gc
TO give tie young bride JOY II is th
natural tendency Of feeling touched b!
lovelness, that fears nothing for iseII
and il ever yield to darker feelings,
is because the light of the picture i
changed am not fond Of dwelling up
on such changes, aud will not minute
Iy, now. alude 10 it only because
trust that my simple page viii be rea
by some Of The young aud beautiful be
ings who move daily across my patF
aud | would whisper 10 them. as the
glide by, joyousIy and confidently, tn
secret Of an uncIouded future.
The picture have drawn above
moi peculiar 1t is coIored like the fol
cies OF lhr bride; and many, Oh! man
, an hour will she sit, with her ewels Iy
ing loose in her fingers, and dream sue
, dreams as these. She believes then
loo-and she goes on Tor while, undt
, ceiVed. The evening is not too lon
. while they talk oil plans for happiness
$ and The quict meal is still pIeason, wit
! tho delightful novelty Of mutual rehanc
. and attention There comes soon, hoV
] ever, time when personal topics he
!. come bare and weOrsome, and siig'
] attentions will not alone keep up he s
t cial excitement. There are long intel