Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1853-03-17


assdIing evef so long at q gorrsn's knee. on
day he gets up and IS free. We have all bee,
there VIC have all had the fever: the stronges
and the smallest, from Sampson, Hercules, Rinal
do. downwards: but it burns out. and you gel
well.
Ladies who read this, and who know what a
love have for the whole sex, will not, hope
cry out at the above observations or be angry be.
cause state that the ardour of love declines af-
| ter certain period MY dear Mrs Hopkins
you would not have Hopkins to carry on the same
absurd behavior when he was counting you! orin
place of going to bed aud to sleep comfortably,
sitting up half the night to write to you bad
verses! You would not have him racked with
Jealousy if you danced or spoke with any one
else at ball: or neglect all his friends, his bust
ness. his interest in life, in order to bangle at
your feet! No, you are sensible woman; you
know that be must 60 to his counting house, that
he must receive and visit his friends, and that he
must attend to his and your interest in life. You
are no LONGER his goddess his fairy, his peerless
paragon, whose name he shouted as Don OUR
ote did that of Dmlctnea You are Jane Hop
kins, you are thirty years old, you have got a
parcel of children, and Hop loves you and them
with all his heart. He would be helpless dri-
weller and ninny were he to be honeymooning
still, whereas he is good honest fellow, respect
ed on Change, liked by his friends, and famous
for his Port wine.
Yes, Bob, the fever goes, but the wife doesn't.
Long after your passion is over, Mrs. Brown will
be at your side, good soul, still: and it is for that
as trust, long subsequent period of my worthy
Bob's life, that | am anxious. How will she look
when the fairy brilliancy of the honeymoon has
faded into the light of common day!
You are OF a jovial and social turn, and like to
see the world, as why should you not! 1t con-
tains a great number of kind and honest folks,
from whom you may hear thousand wise and
pleasant. A man ought to like his neighbors. to
mix with his neighbors, to be popular " it'll his
neighbors. 1t is friendly heart than has plenty
of friends. You can't be talking with Mrs. Brown
forever and ever you will be couple of old geese
if you do.
She ought then to be able to make your
house pleasant to your friends. She ought to at
tract them to it by her grace, her good breeding,
her good humor. Let it be said Of her, "What
an uncommonly nice woman Mrs. Brown is" Let
her be, if not a clever woman, an appreciation of
cleverness in others, which perhaps clever folks
like better Above all, let her have a-sense of
humor, my dear Bob, for woman without a
laugh in her like the late excellent Mrs BROWN
is the greatest bore in existence. Life without
laughing is dreary blank. A woman who can
not laugh is a wet blanket on the kindly nnptia
couch. A good laugh is sunshine in a house. A
quick intelligence, frightening eye, kind smile,
a cheerful spirit-these hope Mrs. Bob will bring
to you in her trousseau, to be used afterwards for
daily wear. Before all things, my dear nephew,
try and have cheerful wife.
What, indeed, does not that word 'scheerful-
ness" imply? 1t means confer ted spirit, it
means pure heart, it means ki1d and loving
disposition, it means humility ano charity, it
means generous appreciation of others. and a
modest opinion of self. Stupid peol lie who do
not know how to laugh, are always pon,pous and
.sef-conceted that is bigoted; that is cruel that
is, ungentle, unchristian. Have good, jolly,
laughing, kind woman, then, for your partner,
you who are yourself kind and olly fellow; and
when you go to sleep, and when you wake, pray
there may be a smile under each of your honest
nightcaps.