Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1845-08-26
Vol. Who 9.
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GETTING MARRiED.-Dow, Jr., he In
imisable preacher ofthe New York Sunday
Mercury. thus d;scourses on getting married
1t is said he is about TO enter the holy estate
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s.Young man! if you have arrived II the
right point in life for it, let every other con-
sldelailon give way 10 that Of getting mar
red, Don't think of doing else. Keep po-
king about among the rubbish Of the world
till YOU have stirred up gem worth posses.
ing, in the shape Of wife. Never think 81
anything the na,ter;s for you know that de-
lays are dangerous A good wife, is : the
most constant and faithful companon' you
can possibly have by your side. while per-
forming the journey of Iife--ai dog isn't
tonch to her She is Of more service, too,
than you may at frs, imagine. 70 She can
smooth your linen and your cares for you
mend your trousers, and perchance your
manners-sweetcn your sour moments as
well as your tea and coffee for yon-ruflle,
perhaps, your.shirt bosom, but not your
temper; and, instead of sowing the seeds
of sorrow in your path, she Will sow but
ions on your shirts, and plant happiness in
stead of harrow teeth in your bosom. Yes
and if you are too eonEoundly lazy or too
proud TO do such work yourself, she will
chop wood, and dig potatoes for dinner; for
her love for her husband is such that she
will dc. any thing 10 please him-exccpt re-
ceive cotnpany4in her everyday clothes
When a woman loves, she loves with a
double distilled deyotedness; and when she
hates, she hates on the high pressure princi-
pie. Her love is as deep as the oceon,
as strong as hempen halter, and as i'm
mutable as the rock .ofagcs She won't
change it,except it lsin very strange fit of
Jealousy; and even then it lingers,as ir 10th
TO part, like evening twilight at the windows
of the west. Get married by all means
All de excuses you can fish up against
doing the deed amt worth spoonful OF
pigeons milk. Mark this--if blest with
health and enjoyment, you are not able to
support wife, depend upon it you are moi
capable ofsnpporring yourself. Therefore,
so much the more need of annexation; for,
in union, as well as an union, there is
strength. Get married, repeat, young
man! Concentrate your affections upon
one object, and not distribute them crumt
by crumb, among host o(Susans, Marys,
Loranss, Olives, ELIAS, Augustus, Bctses,
Peggies, and Notwithstanding each
scarcely enough TO nibblc at. Get married
and have somebody TO cheer you as you
journey through this 'lowly vale of tears
somebody to scour uPyour dull melancholy
moments, andkeep your whole life, and
whltever linen you possess, in some sor,
Of Sunday-go-to-rneet order.
Young woman! need not tell you to
look out for your husband, for know that
you are fixing contrivances to catch one,
and are as naturally on the watch as cat
is for a mouse. But one word in your ear
if you please. Don't bait your hook with
an artificial fly of beauty; if you do the
chances arc ten TO one that yon will catch a
gndgeon-some silly fool Of fish that isn't
worth his weight in saw-dust. Array the
inner lady with the beautiful garments Of
virtue, modesty, truth, morality, wisdom,
and sophisticated love ;aud you will dispose
of yourself quicker, and TO mnch better
advantage than you would if you displayed
all the gewgaws, fippe1igs, fol-de-rols, and
iddlededees in the universe. Remember
that it is an awful thing to live and die a
seIfmanufactured old maid.
My hearers-get married while you are
young; ind then when the fiosts of age shall!
fall and wither the flowers of affection, the
leaves Of connubial love will still be green;
and perchance, Joyous offspring will sur
round and grace the parent tree, like ivy
twning and adjoining the time seattle red
oak.' Ill 81 eoeee