Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1854-05-20
Lover and the Husband.

seli-cCncelted, ,hUmanlZlng incidents which
have ever gained the laughter and good
will of the world, the lover and newly
married man :
You grow unusually amiable and kind
you are earnest in your search Of friends;
YOU shake hands with your ofice-boy, as
if lie were your. second cousin. You
Joke cheerlully with the stout washerwo-
man, and give her a shilling over change,
and insist upon her keeping it, and grow
quite merry at the recollection of it. You
tap your hackman on the shoulders very
Gamiliarly, and tell him he is capital fel-
low, and don't allow him to whip his
horses, except when driven to the post
office. You even ask him TO take glass
of bear with YOU upon some chilly even
ing. You drink to the health of his wife.
He says he has no wife-whereupon you
think him a very miserable man and you
give him a dollar by way of consolation.
You think all the editorials in the morn
ing papers are remarkably well written
whether upon your side or upon another.
You think the stock market has very
cheerful look-with Erie-of which you
are large holder-down to sevenly-6vc.
You wonder why you never admired Mrs.
Hemans before, TO SlOdard, or any OF the
rest.
You give a pleasant twirl Of your fin
gers as YOU saunter along the street, and
say, but not SO loud as to be overheard,
She is mine-she is mine
You wonder if Frank ever loved Nelly
one-half as we'll as you love Madge! You
feel sure he never did. You can hardly
conceive how it is that Madge has no.
been seized before now by scores ena-
mored men, and borne off, like the Sabine
women in Romish history. You chuckle
over your future, like boy who has
found a guinea in groOping for slXpence.
You read over the marriage service
thinking Of the time when yOa will take
her hand and slip the ring upon her finger;
and repeat after the clergyman-for rich
for poorer--for better--fOr worse. A
great deal of worse there will be about
it YOU think.
Through all, your heart cIeaves TO that
sweet image Of your beloved Madge, as
light cleaves TO day. The weeks leap
with bound, and the months only grow
long when you approach that day which
is TO make her yours. There are no
flowers rare enough 10 make boquets for
her; diamonds are too dim for her to
wear; pearls are too tame.
And after marriage the weeks are even
shorter than before wonder why on
earth all single men in the world do not
rush tumuluously to the alter; yoI look
upon them as travelled man will look
upon some conceiled Dutch boor, who
has never been beyond the limits Of his
cabbage garden.
Married men, on the contrary, you re-
gard as fellow yoyagers, and look upon
their wives, ugly as they may be, as better
than none.
You blush a little when first telling
your butcher what your wife would like;
you bargain with the grocer for sugars
and teas, and wonder if he knows that
YOU are a married man. You practice
your new way TO talk upon your Office
boy--you tell him that your wife expects
you home TO dinner, and are astopished
that he does not start TO hear you say so !
You wonder if the people in the omni-
bus know that you and Madge are just
married, and if the driver knows that the
shilling you hand TO him is for self and
wife, You wonder if any body was
ever so happy before, or will be so happy
again!
You enter your name upon the hotel
books Clarence - and Lady; ; and
come back to look at it--wondering if
any body has noticed it--and thinking
that it looks remarkably well. You can
not help thinking that every third man
YOU meet in the hall wishes he possessed
your wife; nor do you think it very sinful
in him to wish it. YoUfear it is putting
temptation in the way of covelous men,
TO put Madge's little CATERS outside the
chamber door at night.
Your home, when il is entered, is just
what it shonld oe-quite smaIl-wllh
everything that she wishes and nOlalng
more than she wishes. The sun strikes
it in the happiest possible way; the piano
is the sweetest toned in the world; the
library is stocked to a charm and Madge
that blessed wife, is there, adorning and
giving life to it all. TO think, even, Of
her possible death, is suffering you class
with the Internal tortures Of the Inquisi-
tion. You grow twain of heart and Pur-
pose. Smiles seem made for marriage :;
and you wonder how YOU ever wore them
before
For DIARRHGA.-Parch ! pint Of rice
until it is brown, then boil it as rice is gen.
erally done. Eat it slowly with boiled
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