Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1852-01-16
4 PLEASANT SKETCH

Inc ioliowing amusing sketch is from book recent.
iy published, entitled dream Life" by Ike Marvel:
b NE let, THE MARRIED MAN.-"You grow unu.u.
ally amabe and kind; you are earnest in your search
OF freads; you shake hands with YOUR office how a.
| 1t he were your second cousin. Yon Joke cheerfnllv
with the stout washerwomy n and give her shIng
yer ehange ana INSIST upon her keeping il; and grow
| quite marry at the recollection OF il You tap your
hackman on the shoulder very famarly, and tell him
he Is capital 'eow aud cont allow him 10 shin his
horses, except when driving to the posotiice You
even ask him to take glass OF beer with YOU upon
some chilly evening You drink to the health OF his
wife. He saws he has wife :--whereuppn you think
him avery miserable man; and give him dollar BY
way oil consolation.
You think all the editorials IN the morning napers
are rkaby we'll written whether upon your side
or upon the other. You think the stock mark FL has
very cheerol Iook,-wIth Err-of which you are a
large holder-down to seventy-five You wonder why
you never admired Mrs. Hemans before, or Stoddard
ny OF the rest.
You give pleasant twirI TO your fingers, as YOU
stuuter along the street, and saybut II so loud as
10 oe overheard-.She is mne-she is mine .
You wonder il Frank ever loved Nelly one half as
well as you love Madge You feel quite sure he
never did. You hardly conceive how It ia that
Madge has not been seized before now BY scores of
enamored men. and borne off like the Sabine womrn
10 nomlsh history. You chucke over your future,
nsncss ooy VINO mas found guinea in coping for
princes; iou read over the marriage servce-fhink.
Ing OF the time when you will take her hand and slim
Inc rng upon her finger; and repeat after the clergy
man-'for rcheI-for poorer; for better-for ,vorss
great deal of worse there will be about 1. Won
think! "''"' ~ you
Through all, your heart cleaves to that sweet ina
OF the beloved Madge, as light cIeaves to day. The
weeks leap with a bound, and the months ony grow
ng when you approach that day which is to make
ner yours There are no flowers rare enough to make
ooqu''s Tor her diamonds dim Tor her to wear:
pearls are tame ''
-And alter MARI age, the weeks are even shor-
ie' man before you wonder why on earth all the
siagle men 10 the world do not rush umnnonsiv 10
he siiar YOU look upon them ALL as n travelled rnsn
Will look upon sone eonceiied Dutch boor who has
RIVER been beyond the Limits of his cabbage garden
msFrieo men on the contrary you regad as fellow
voyagtrs: and look upon their w iyes-uoIv as thew
nav be AS better than mona.
You blu lt,le at first telling your butcher VIVA,
your wife would like: you bargain with the grocer
lor sugars ana teas, and wonder he knows you
married macs GU practice your new way of talk
upon your office boy you tell him that your WIFE ex.
poets you home 10 dinner, and are astonshed that he
does not stare 10 hear you say it.
NJ gu "onder II the people in the omnibus know that
Madge aad you are just married. and il the drjvrr
mar the shilling you hand 10 him is for self and
wHeI lou wonder it any body vas ever so hapoy he
lore or ever will be so happy again?
GU enter your name upon the hotel book az sClar.
ence - and lady;' and come back to look at il
wonder it any body else hiss noticed -and think
that 1t looks remarkably well You cspnot helm
thinking that every third you meet in the hall wish
e. ne possessed your wife, nor do you think il yeIy
sinful II him to wish it, You lear il is placino tern
tation in the way Of ovetous neu to pua Madoe,s liz
tie CATERS outside the chamber door at night.
our home when II is entered, is just what it should
ee,-qnlet small,-wth everything she wishes and
nothing than she wishes The sun strikes il in the
hapDest possible way The pianos he swsele. .ps
toned IN the world; the lib airy is stocked to a charm
and Madge that blessed wife, is there adjoining and
giving life to i all. To Think even, OF her possible
oean' Il suffering yon class with the internal torues
OF .he lnqulsition. You grow twa in of heart and
purpose. Smiles seem made for marriage; and YOU
wonder now you ever wore them before"