Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1845-10-04
Sketches or the Notebook OF Laurie Todd 8
OK, HIsrs TO the You've MES's MERcAN.
TILE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION.

sketche. or the Notebook OF Laurie Todd 8
OK, Hlsrs TO the You've MEs's MERcAN.
TILE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION.
In choosing wife, let her be Of family not
vain in their name or connections, bur remark.
able for their simplicity Of manners and integri-
iy Of life. Let her be alike free from dcformi.
'y and hereditary disease neither fix your
eyes on n celebrated beauty--4she is apt to be
too pround her pretty face, and sfraid to soil
her delicate hands. The woman who washes
her own silver spoons, China cups and platters,
and performs other light services in the family,
is always the most healthy, the most happy, and
the most contented-tor thus she gains the ap-
probation Of her husband and Of her own con.
science. The woman who leaves her family
four or five hours every day, running from shop
to shop, aud making calls is always UNHAPPY; for
conscience says--you have been sowing the
wind, you shall reap the whirlwind. Beauty is
n very desirable Ingredient in choosing a wife;
you vii! be proud Of your handsome wife when
YOU introduce her to friend but by all means
find out, il you can, whether or not she is rain
other beauty. If you find she is daily washing
her already pretty face with milk of roses, and
patent cosmetics that she is daily puring wa
ter and Maccassar oil on her ALREADY glossy
hair-if this s the case, it is rather an alarming
symptom. A handsome woman never looks so
well as when she don't know it.
Good nature is another necessary virtue in a
wife. This, though, is not so essential, as a
man must be a consumate blockhead if he can
not lead (nor drive) woman by fair words. A
good manager is another indispensable quati-
cation. After marriage, if woman does not
p'que herself on her knowledge of family af.
fairs, and laying ont money TO the bos, ndvan.
tage, let her be ever so sweet-tempered, grace
fully made or elegantly accomplished, she is no
wife for man ofbusness. When people are
harnessed in the yoke matrimonial, they must
draw together. lis mans duty to give to his
wife its the wile's duty 10 use it with the most
Scrupulous economy.
Having now resolved to get married, do not
distinguish your wedding day with too much os.
tentation, nor suffer it to pass without proper
acknow Judgements. Let it wear sober smile,
such as would become your partner and you for
life; not to be convulsed with rio,ous laughter,
that leaves tesrs in the eyes, and heaviness a,
the heart as soon as the fit is over. Modera.
ton in all things is the very essence of lite
neither fly to the mountans nor lnger about
the springs; the money thus foolishly spen,
would pay for ell the coal you would burn mex,
winter proceed n tie usual and easy tenor o
your way. prosecuting your regular busines:
with all the sober realities on your back, fol
remember that the harvest lasts not all the wear
Continue to treat your wife with the same cheer
tulness on your brow, the same tenderness il
your eyes, the same obliging turn in your be
havour with which you were won, 10 treat he
IN the days OF courtship; fyou do this, he
love will never change. Above all things ne
yer let her imagine il a penance for you to stay
at home, or that you prefer any company what
ever 10 hers; let her share with you in oil YOU
pleasures BY these and similar acts of kind
ness you will secure her love and gratitude a
once, and she will say she is the happiest wo
man upon earth.