Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1852-07-28
5Hiscellnneons.
WIDOWS.

WIDOWS.
Some people have a prejudice against
widows, but for our pa.t we could never
tell what for-grls will do very we'll in their
place, but one widow is worth half dozen
of them any day. Girls are so shy, so
timid, so rese. ,ed, so basbful! Very few
of them know how to make love, and when
they undertake it, it is awkwardly done ?
Rnt widows understand the whole process.
They are used to it. They are experienced
cavaliers in the dashiug court of Cupid.
They know when to advance and when to
retreat. When to lay siege to a heart,
when to attack it by storm. More cases
have succumbed to the dazzling bright eye
Of q widow clad in weeds than were ever
taken by the dreamy, melancholy orbs Of
maidenhood Believe us, there is more
real danger in tue dark and waving tresses
of bereaved one of twenty-five, than
lurk in the golden locks Of all girldom. See,
there goes one now. Scarcely twelve
month has softened down her excessive
grief. But women can't weep always.
They are made of something else besides
tears and that one has a''eady found out
that her charms are not entirely faded. She
has not thrown aside her sable weeds vet,
but the heavy and sombre bombazine has
given place to light and graceful fabric,
which shows beneath its folds the white pet
ticoat, and sets off more beautiful her SYM
metrical form, and falls more elegantly
from her polished shoulders. Notice her
little foot as she trips alons-how daintiiy
Mtouches the ground, and how adroitIy she
manages it to EXHIBIT he we'll proporiioned
ancle. All! that is woman Tor you. Bat
look at her bonnet, viii you! Seventeen
summers could never manage to wear it
after that fashion. See how janntly it
covers her head, and how many sly glanees
she is enabled to t',row from beneath it
and every one barbed arrow that trans
fixes the heart of some poor foolish love.
sick swain.
Did you ever notice how much more apt
rather young men are to fall in love with
widows aud girls that have passed the sum.
mer of lie, than with young girls! Well
here is the secret Of it. They are expe-
rienced anglers. They know with what
solt Of hooks to fish with, what sort of bate
to use, and how to draw in their prey. In
this they have great advantage over girls
who are sill only ia April and May. The
former do three-fourths of the cour;ing,
while the latter leave it all to be done by
their suitors.
But there comes one of them. Look at
Fer. She is: decidedly pretty. She is a
girl Of fine natural capacity, and is well
educated. She is what is called accomplish.
ed. Her toilette is perfect. What colors
could better become her complexion, or
what fabrics better suit her form! Look at
that eye, if you can catch glimpse of it
beneath the languishing lid how soft and
dreamy. Behold the brow, how white and
polished. See that arm, how firm and
round; those fingers, how soft and tapering.
In conversation she is agreeable and party
is incomplete without her. And yet-is it
not melancholy TO believe it!-the chances
are even that that gil, lovely as she is, will
die an old maid. At any rate we will
wager our old boots that our widow gets
married. before her.
Such, however, is the world. Evidently
there is fault somewhere. There must be
wong in the way in which mar.
riage is brought about among civilized ma.
tons. Look at the number o. old bache.
lors about, who never have tasted the sweets
of mat imony. And look, too, at the num-
Der of women who are pining in single
Blessedness. The Great Being who pre-.
sides over all things did not intend it should
be so. He intended every man should have
a mate. But how to rectify the fault we
pretend not to be Solomon enough to know.
Bachelors, of course after they arrive at the
age of twenty-five, ought to be taxed. And
we trust that bill to that effect will be
brought to the attention of the Legislature.
Let Alabama take the lead in this matter,
why shouldn't she9 And the committee on
and grievances ought to pro-
vide some way to marry off the girls by the
lime they are seventeen. We are inclined
10 think that these matters are much better
managed among the Indians and other bar
barous tribes than by us. We don't mean
70 recommend Polygamy. That would be
worse than the evil we wish to cure and
would make US little better than the Nor.
mons.
But we find ourselves ruuning into graver
matters than we intended when we COM
nenced this article, and so we conclude
S we commentator widows. If all the
women were widows, there would be no
ificulty about it but they ain't and there
no way of making them SO, until you
lake them wives, and that is the very thing
re want to get at. Well, we have pointed
ut the evil; let wiser men devise remedy.
[Tuskegee Republican. |