The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1855-12-27

CHaMrfoNs.iIp or MoMANs Ksurs First
however. let US copy funny story of a brides
peniing at the altar, realizing accidentally that
she about TO make over all her money, well
as her loveness TO her bridegroom:
In the parish Of Rlackawton Devonshire, lives
a thrifty widow, who carries on farm sucuessful-
IT, and Who although nearly fifty, is not vet invin
chile to the arrows of Cupid. She has been
woed and by stalwart yeoman, a widower
named Nottie. and ono day las. week the happy
couple repaired to Backawton church, for the pur-
pose Of being Joined together in holy matrnony.
The officiating clergyman Informed the worthy
pair that he desired to say few words TO them
before he tied the indissoluble knot which would
bind them together for better or for worse, long
they live. With much eloquence he discoursed
the solemnity and the deep import of the mar
riage staie-of its duties and priviIcges--and of
its vast iufaence for good for evil on the future
career of those who entered into holy bonds. and
then he ventured to inquire if the bride had had
the worldly wisdom TO secure unto herself or her
children, what she possessed of worlds goods, be-
cause if she had not the performance of the mar
riage ceremony would make both her and all she
possessed. the lawful property OF her welded hus.
band He eounseled her to reflect on this and
pause ere too late. Whether the brdegroom's
tongue stilled by the surprise consequent on
this lawyer-ke conduct of the parson, is Lot
known but certain it is that his intended wife re-
fused to become his bride, and they returned to
the farmsiead as they left it-not man and wife
The affair has created quite an exc.tementi1 the
neghborhood.
a nd here is what the Hon. Mrs. Norton the
hindsomest woman in England I'VE used to agree
with most in thinking, twenty years ago. saws
on another branch of the subject:
And thus it is that this legal fiction OF the
existence of married women sits rs q curse npon
married and single alike. 1t taints from frs, to
last, the stream of their life, and Heaven only
knows what a crop of misery is the rank result -
As society is at present constituted, women
educated not TO do. but TO suiicr. La classes
elfsupport is reproach not only to the sef-sus
tanning worker herself but to all who belong to
ber. Society DEGREES that che shall be non-exist-
ent-that she shall depend, perhaps uponcharity
grudyingly bestowed-that she shall live in a state
of penurous idleness, useless, querulous, unhap-
Py-
And from red morning to the dewy fall
Folding her iistles- hands, pursue aim at all.
But outwardly be what the world is pleased to
call lady. la other classes the curse works more
grIevouslv Oar peasant girls are not trained for
labor. Society does not encourage them TO labor.
They reach the dangerous are OF incipient woma1.
hood Ill educated unskilied ainless useless--fi,
indeed for notbirg, and if fit, seeing nothing to
employ their fitness. They not trained to
make good wives--they are not trained for indie
pendent employment, and there is little indepen-
dent employment for them, if they were. There
- nothing sadder in human life than this. And
here is no greater question than that of Woman's
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