Republican vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1857, 1854-09-25
MISCEL L A N E u S.
LOVER AND THE HUSBAND.

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LOVER AND THE HUSBAND.
In his drama Of Life" TX. Marvel
thus sketches in pleasant vein, and with
those self.conceited, humanizing incidents
which have ever gained the laughter and
good will Of the world, the lover and the
newly married man:
"You row unusually amia5le and kind
YOU ale earnest in your search of friends:
you shake hands with your office-boy, as
If he were your second cousin. You joke
cheerfully with the stout washerwoman,
and give hera shilling overchange, ahd
insist upon her keeping it, and grow quite
merry at the recollection Of it. You tap
your hackman OH the shoulders very ia
miliary; aud tell him he is capital fellow,
and don't allow him to whip his horses,
except when driven to the post Office
You even ask him to take glass Of beer
with you upon some chilly evening. You
drink to the health of his wife. He says
he has no wife-wheseupon you think
him very miserable man; and you gise
him dollar by way Of consolation.
"You think all the editorials in the
morning papers are remarkably well writ
ten--whether upon your side or upon an
other. You think the stock market has
very cheerful look-with Eiie-of which
YOU are a large holder-down to seventy
five. YOU binder why you never admired
Mrs. Hemans before; Bf Stodard, or any of
the rest.
"Y0u give pleasant tw,rl of your flu
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 Nell
Iy one.half as well rs you love Madge p
You feel sure he never did. You can
hardly conceive how il is that Madge has
not been seized before now by scores Of
enamored men, and boriie of, like the
Sabine women Of Romish history. You
chuckle over your future, like boy who
has found guinea IN cropping for six
petisei
you read over the marriage service
thinking Of the time when you will take
her hand aud slip the ring upon her finger;
aud repeat after the clergyman-for rich
er-for poorer-for better-for worse.-
A great deal Of "worse" there will be
about i, you think.
Through all, your heart cleaves to that
sweet image OF your beloved Madge, as
light cleayes 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 flow
ers rare enough TO make boquets for her;
diamonds are too dim for her to wear
J 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 Unanimously to the altar YOU look
upon them as d tfa4ehsd man will look
upon some conceited Dutch boor. who has
never been beyond the limits Of his cab
bage garden:
1 Married men, on Tie contrary; you re-
gard as fellow voyagers, and look upon
their wives, ugly as they may be. as better
than none.
! "You blush little when first telling
your butcher what your wife would like !;
you bargain with the grocer for sugars and
teas, aud wonder il he knows that you are
married man. You practice your new
way OF talk upon your office boy-you tell
him that "your wife" expects you home
not start 10 hear you say so
"You wonder If the people IN the omnI-
bus know that you aud Madge are Just
married, and if the driver knows that the
shilling you hand to him is for self and
wife. You wonder il anybody was SO
happy before, or will be 50 happy again
"You enter Jour name upon the hotel
books as "Clarence - and Lad. $" and
come back to look at lt-wondering II any
body has noticed it--and thinking that Il
looks emaIkably well. You cannot 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 ii. You fear It IS putting temptation
lin the way OF covetous men, to pus Madge's
little CATERS outside the chamber door al
night. ..a..,,,
f what it should be--quite small--with ev'
| erf thing that she wishes and nothing more
than she wishes. The sun strikes it in
the happiest possible way the piano i
the sweetest toned in the world; the Ii.
brary is stocked to charm; and Madge
that blessed Wife; is there, adoruing ant
giving life to it all. To think, even, oil
her possible death, is a suffering you elias,
with the Internal tortures Of the lnquisi'
ton. You grow twain Of heart and pur.
pose. Smiles seem made for marriage
and you wonder how you ever wore them
before y
Az.Y herp il a hind of vice that some