Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1845-07-01
WOMAN AND MARRIAGE.

nave speculated great deal upon matri-
mony. have seen young and beautiful wo-
men, the pride OF gay circles, married, as the
world says, well! Some have moved into
costly houses, and their friends have all com,
and looked at their furniture and splendid ar
rangemcnts for happiness, and they have gone
away and committed their To their sunny hopes
cheeriully and without fcar.--lt is natural to
be sanguine Tor the young and at such times
am carried away by similar feelings. | love
To get, unobserved, into corner and watch
the bride IN her attire, and with her smiling
face and soft eyes moving before me in the
pride of life, weave waking dream over her
future happiness, and persuade myself that it
will be true. | think how they will sit upon
the luxurious sofa as the twilight falls and
build gay hopes, and mumur i'm low tones the
now forbidden tenderness: and how thrilling
y the allowed kiss. and the beautiful endcar-
ments of welded life will make even their
parting joyous, and how gladly come back
from the crowd and empty mrth of the CAV to
each others company. | picture TO myself
that young creature, who bushes even now of
his hesitatins caress listening eagerly for his
footsteps as the night steals on, and wishing
that he would come, and when he enters at
last, and with an affection as mdying as his
pulse, folds her To his bosom. / can feel the
very tide that goes flowing through his heart,
and gaze with him on her graceful form as she
moves about him for the kind Offices of ailcc-
ton soothing all his quiet cares, and making
hun forget even himself in her young and UNI
shadowed beauty.
lgo forward "a number Of years and see her lux
uriant hair put sobcrly away from her brow
and her grlish graccs ripened into dignity and
her bright loneliness chastcned with the gentle
mcekness OF maternal affection. Her husband
looks ON her with proud eve, and shows her
the same iervent love and the delicate attcn-
tons which first won her, and fair children
growing-up about them, and they go on full of
honor and untroubled years, and are remember
ed when they die!
say love to dream thus when 90 10 give
the young bride JOYS. 1t is the natural ten
dcncy of feeling touched by loneliness that
fears nothing for itself; and if ever Weld to
darkcned feelings. it is because the light of the
picture Is changed. ann not fond of dwell
ling upon such changes, and will not minute
ly now. allude To il only because trust that
my simple page will be read By some of the
young aud beautiful beings who daily move
across my path; and would whisper to them,
as they glide forth the joyously and confidently
the secret OF an unclouded future.
The picture have drawn above is not pc
culiar. 1t is colored like the iancies of the
bride; and many, oh many an hour will she
sit, with her rich jewelilying loose on her fin
ger, and dream such dreams as these She be-
licves them, too-and she goes on for while
undeceived. The evening is not too long
while they talk of plans for future happiness,
and the quiet meal is still delightful and
pleasant novelty of mutual reliance and atten-
ton. There comes soon, however, time
when personal topics become bare and wcari-
some, and slight attentions will not alone keep
up the social excitement. There are long in
tcrvals of silence, and detected symptoms of
WEAKNESS, and the husband, first in his man
hood, breaks in upon the hours they were
wont To spend together. | cannot follow it
Circumstantially. Then comes long hours of
unhappy restlessncss, and terrible misgiving
of each others worth and affection, till by and
by, they can conceal their uncasiness no lon
ger, and so out separately to seek relief and
lean upon the hollow world for the support
which one who has promised to be their lover
and friend could not give them
| Heed this, we who arc willing by your inno-
cent beauty, the affection of high minded and
thinking beings Remember that he will give
up the brother of his heart, with whom ne has
had even a fellowship of mind the society of
ms contemporary runners in race Of fame,
who have held him with stern companions
ship. and frequently in bis passionate love he
will break away from the arena of his burning
ambition, to come and listen TO tho voice of
the charner.' 1t will bewildcr him al first,
but it will not long. And then, think YOU
| that AN idle Establishment will chain the mind
/ that has been used for years TO equal comInu-
Mon? Think YOU he will give up fora weak
dalliance. the aninatlng theme of men. ana
search into the mysteries of knowledge? Oh,
no, lady believe me. no Trust not vou
/ influence TO such light ictters. Credit not the
old-lashioned absurlity, that woman's is a
secondary lot, ministcring to the necessities OF
\ her lord and master. II your immortality i,
a. complete, and your gift Of mind as capable
as ours. would charge YOU to water the un-
/ dying bud. and give ii healthy culture. and
| open It's beauty To the sun and then YOU may
| hope that when your life is bound with anoth.
/ or, you will go on equally and in friendship
| that will pcryadc every earthly interest.
POSTMASTER At PITTSBURGH.-i
viii be- seen, in reference 10 our Washington
correspondence, that CHAMBERS VI KIBBtN Ese
has been appointed Postmaster Of this CITY
Hr isa gentleman yell UualiG ad C,r tt IA, -,