The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 184?-1851, 1845-01-29
WOMEN AND

l Lave speculated a great deal upon matrimo-
ny. | have seen young and beautiful women,
the pride Of gay circles, married as the world
says--well Some have moved into costly hou-
SEES, and their friends have all come and locked
at their fine furniture and splendid arrange ments
for happiness, and they have gone away and com
mitted them to their sunny hopes cheerfully and
without fear. 1t is natural to be sanguine for
the young, and at such times | I'm carried away
by similar feelings. | love to get unobserved
into a corner and watch The bride in her attire,
and with her smiling face and soft eyes moving
before me in their pride of life, weave a 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 murmur in low tones
the now forbidden tenderness; and how thrilling
ly the allowed kiss, and the beautiful endear-
ments of welded life will make even their par
ting joyous, and how gladly come back from the
crowd and the empty mirth of the gay TO each
others company, picture to myself that young
creature, who bushes even now of his hesitating
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 undying 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 Of
fees Of affection soothing all his quiet cares and
making him forget even himself in her young
and unshadowed beauty.
| go forward, forward for years, and see her
~luxurlant hair put soberly away from her brow,
and her girlish graces ripencd into dignity, and
her brigh. loneliness chastencd with the gentle
meekness of maternal affection. Her husband
looks on her with a proud eye, and shows her
the same fervent love and the delicate attentions
which first won her, and fair children are grow
ing up about them, and they go on full of honor
and untroubled years, and are remembered when
they die!
say l love to dream thus when | 90 to give
the young bride joy. 1t is the natural tenden-
cy of feeling touched by loveliness, that fears
nothing for itself; and if ever | yield 10 darken-
ed feelings, it is because the light of the picture
is changed. | am not fond of dwelling upon
such changes, aud | will not infinitely now. |
allude to it only because | trust that my simple
page will be read by some of the young and
beautiful beings who daily move across my path;
and | would whisper to them, as they glide by
~joyously and confidently, the secret of an I'M
clouded future.
The picture | have drawn above is not peculi-
ar. 1t is colored like the fancies of the bride;
and many, oh! many an hour will she sit, with
her rich jewels lying loose in her fingers, and
dream such dreams as these. She believes
them, too--and she goes on for a while undecei-
we'd. The evening is not TOO long while they
talk of plans for future happiness, and the quiet
meal is still a pleasant and delightful novelty of
mutual reliance and attention. There comes
soon, however, a time when personal topics be-
come bare and wearisome, and slight attentions
will not alone keep up the social excitement
There arc long intervals of silence, and detect.
ed symptoms of WEAKNESS, and the husband,
first, in his manhood, breaks in upon the hours
they we're wont to spend together. | cannot
follow it circumstantially. Then come long
hours Of unhappy restlessness. and terrible mis-
givings of each others worth and affection, till
by and by, they can conceal their uneasiness no
longer, and 60 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, ye who are winningly by your in
nocent beauty, the affection of high-minded and
thinking beings. Remember that he will give
up the brother of his heart with whom he has
had even a fellowship Of mind, the society of
his cotemporory runners in a race Of fame, who
have held with hin q stern companionship; and
frequently in his passionate love, he will break
away from the arena of his burning ambition, to
come and listen TO the voice of the charmer.'
II will bewilder him at 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 an equal communion? Think you he will
give up for a weak dalliance, the animating
theme of men, and search into the mysteries Of
knOwledgei Oh, no, lady! believe me, noI--