The Columbia Democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, 1846-09-12
THE YOUNG WIFE:

THE YOUNG WIFE:
so Ellen Osgood has refused Mr.. Liv'
IingsIon? said pretty girl of sixteen 10 one
of her acquaintance, during morning call
I'What can be the reason?'
Il do no, know, unless il is his well
known imperiousness Of temper
But what is that 10 a fortune such as
Ibis! am sure should overlook great
many fai!ings in husband, who could give
me The finest house aud most splendid car
Iage in town.
Blu. my DEAR said her elder friend, you
forget that happiness cannot be purchased
with gold. There are sad hearts in fine
houses as well as in humble cottages. II
there is no mutual love and esteem in the
married state, no gay equPage can bring
felicity or even afford content
La! you are so old fashioned in your no
lions, my dear Miss Thornton, bu! then
sure you are older, and ought 10 know more
than do. Yet am certain should be
happier if | was rch!'
You think SO nov. my dear, because
having loving parents e. afec'onate friends
your heart has nothing further 10 ask for in
that way; but lei your friends be taken from
you, lei you be alone in the world, with nc
one to cling 10, and you will long for some
one 10 love, more than you now long for
.,-,---- too f. ~" - -" ----.
take care, my dear child, how you fling i,
away
well, am sure never thought OF these
thing before: but you must be right. They
|say Ellen is going TO marry young Harry
MonckIon.'
q am glad 10 hear il. Harry is in COM
Portable business, and can give his wife I
neat, though it be a comparatively humbl
home. Then his character is every thing
that wife could wish, his principles arr
excellent, and his heart in the right place
Altogether Ellen has made happy choice.
yet still | should think she will some
times regret her choice, when she sees thu
rich carr;ge Of Mr., Livingston dash by he
humble home
She will never think Of it, my dear.
well, suppose Caroline Wiling salt
the youthful speaker, after pause, 'wil
now be Mrs. Livingston. She has beef
trying 10 gel him these two years, the!
|say.'
Caroline is different girl from Ellen
she has less heart, and places her happnes
chiefly in external show. Ye! she neve
seems happy.
How she will triumph over Ellen!
, But with liule cause, my love. Wal
for TWO years and see the result
:. Two years had passed away since thl
conversalon. Ellen. meantime, married
and removed TO neat cottage which he
husband had rented on the outskirts OF ih
village The house was not large, but wa
convOnienl, and every thing within and a
round was in excellent taste. A pretty gar
den was attached to the cottage. This wa
a source of great pleasure to Ellen, for sh
t was passona,ely fcnd of flowers and ever
v morning, while her husband was absen, {
j at his business, she might be seen waIerin
. her plants, singing with carol as light d
{ tha, of the birds who warbed from ih
{ neighboring boughs.
Caloine Willing had become Mrs. Ii,
. lugston, and thus obtained the prize fc
which she had schemed and Iabored, He
rhouse was the fine ole mansion of The liz
ingstons which had been remodeled an
newly furnished on her marriage. Her {
=, quipage was the most snowy in the pac
y for the first time since the revolution, live
Is les. had been seen in the village. Her ca
u met ware, her dIawing>roOm curtains, an
= her magnificent set Of silver, were The tai
e Of The town. But was she happy! If the
things could have bestowed felicity Oh ar