Tribune and telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1855-1856, 1855-08-23

had, indeed, never up TO our date, seriously con-
templated-which he had on the contrary, dis
tinctly 'tabooed,' as the Pacific heather say of
anything that must be let entirely alone.
Mr. Mannering had not a vice in the world
He sometimes, but very seldom, tasted wine, and
never in his life was his mind confused, or his
brain giddy from indulgence in it. He was, in
all respects, strictly and scrupulously moral-as
faithful to his pew in church as the minister to
his pulpit-kind and liberal to the poor-benefi-
cent toward all charitable institutions and objects
never was known TO shrink from five or from
fifty dollars, when fair solicitor set forth with
silvery peadings, the needs of the heather at
home, or in Pun aub, or at the poles.
But with his excellences, MIR. Mannering had
one habit, venal, perhaps, in single man. en-
trely Incompatible and irreconcileab!e with the
happiness of married life. He stayed out very
late at night, sonlewhere-he knew where, and
: the Club knew where. For him it was well
enough, if he chose so to do; but for the married
members of 'the Club, we do solemnly enter our
protest Mr.. Mannering, like thousands of 9TH
ers, was half infatuated til billiards. Not that
he gambed, dear reader-every principle he had
revoted ar that kind of iniquitY not that he ev-
or played for wagers-that is gambling in no ve-
ny foreign sense but the excitement and fascna-
ton about the billiard table led him into the only
excess which could be laid to his charge
TWAS here that he learned pretty much all that
he knew about wives-the married players were
always more uneasy than the bachelors when
twelve, one, two, three o'clock peaed out from
the church towcrs-bilard players arc oblivious
to watches-the married men said, verify they
must go home. Mr.. A. expected his wife to find
his wife sitting on cricket before the fire, avail
ting his return as if il were uncertain as the re-
turn of Sir John Franklin and his Arctic Expe-
dition. She was always the last to retire in his
house Mr.. DIS wife would be in bed, to be sure,
but his couch would be watered with her tears
the food would have washed him away long ago,
If he had not been good swimmer.
Always snivc.ling,' jotted down Mr.. Man
nering i'll his private memoranda.
Mr.. &. had fellow feeling for Mr.. Caudle-he
looked out for curtain ecrure .th a grand fl
male of tears. Mr.. ID. did not expect his wife
would speak to him, till he conciiiated her with
a new bonnet or a bracelet. Mr.. f.. anticipated
a whirlwind, then Gear weather till he offended
again, then a family tornado, then sunshine, and
so on alternating between extremes. Mr.. F.s
wife would have dreadful tooth-ache. Mr.. G's
would be in Mysteries, while MIR. Il. thought 1t
not impossible his responsibilities might be nu-
accumulated if he stayed out beyond
his limits. NohOdy's wife was going to be asleep;
nobudp's wife was going TO be happy or satisfied;
and, cntre nous, good reader, not one husband
would be satisfied with himself. Nature has SO
constituted men, women and children, that they
cannot feel happy self acquitted, if they have
deliberately and unnecessarily made others I'M
happy.
Well, things were just in this position, when
Mr.. Mannering made his visit at Judge Gold
smiths. We do not intend to fatigue the type
setter with the details of his stay so will
plunge at once to the 'denouemcnt,' and say that
he met, and fell deeply in love with a very love-
ly woman, and nobody save the subjects of a 81
niiar experience, can adequately describe his
sensations, when he reflected one night, after he
had retired to his room, with his heart and head,
and blood and nerves, in the grandcst Hutter he
had eyer felt in his lifa that he had actually made
an offer of his hand heart, and worldly estate, to
a sweet, sensible, and brilliant woman, and that
he was really and truly an accepted loyer-an
engdged man, with an early day for his wedding
under consideration
The strangcst kind of intcxication was upon
him. lie telt like a bottle of champagne when
the cork is being pulled out-as If he could not
wait to burst. He found himself in bed, but he
could render 10 account of how he came there;
he found his hat and spectacles on, and, for few
minutes, he could hardly settle it i'll his mind
whether it was usual for sane man to sleep III
his hat and spectaclcs, or to divest himself OF
them. He attempted to say his prayers, ccre-
mony he never omitted, and generally performed
rcveiently on his knees. But somehow tonight
his head was not straight enough to kneel, and
he found his most solemn petitions put to flight
by such calculations as these:
II is none ofmy doings; it is all that divine Mrs.
Goldsmith. She has unnamed ne. Ii never
had seen how blessed and happy Goldsmith is, L
never should have capituatcd-Hcver! But the
man is certainly fit to be hanged who could resist
such charming creature as Susie Fielding, soon
TO be'-his heart knocked powerfully against his
ribs-'Susie Manaeriag, and my rife! She is
above ai comparison with anything but the an
reis How black aud bright her hair is; verify
think could mirror my tace in its glossy smooth
ness well enough to shave. How sunny and low
ING are her dear sparkling eyes; how fragile, and
vet how beautifully adjusted to come!iness and
grace is her shapc wou.d have given my life to
have twincd my arm about her, when she so frank
" confessed she loved nc, and would be mine,
without any embarrassing IFS or butts, reserves or
How graceiui and willow-.ike are all
her motions; how sweet and musical is her voice.
aud them b.eSs her dear heart, she can't play ON
the piano nor screcch fandangos-no, operas
mean | shall last wears longer ON that account.
And then, she is mare / shall he as happy as Adj
am i'll Paradise, when he first found Eve, as soon
! can take possession ofmy lovely Eye-as lovely
and vastly more sensible and independent III her
way of thinking than Adams. am going to keep
is, zee are-and have home like
Goldsmith's, and will wholly reform all my bad
hab;ts-ths called back his wandering tho'ts 10
his dcvotions again, for he did seriously distrust
his ability to break away from his 'besetting sin,
even when he had voluntarily submitted himself
to Susie Fielding's silken letters.
Unmarried.
Paul Mannering, Esq, had been married a year
and half, perhaps, and he found himsclfthe hap
piest of men. Susie was golden sunbeam in his
housc-'all his fancy painted her. and great
deal more Never had he seen her in tears or hys-
ferries: never had she once fretted never had she
pouted and been wiiful; curtain lectures were a
means of grace unheard of behind his hangings.
The very screaming OF the baby was, most unex-
ueciediv to him, rather musical than Otherwise
at least il was such screaming as no baby had ev-
err screamed before and therefore to be tolerated.
Sometimcs-iusta tcsc-when the young Paul be-
came exuavagantly turbulent, and exercised his
vocal talents with unparalleled freedom, his Old
procIivity for the billiard saloon had seized the
fond and doating father, and he had found him
self irresistibiy tempted towards the old resort in
his DAYS of loneliness and bache,orhoed
1t was twelve O'Clock when he got home from
his first visit, and he hardly knew what to expect
but he found Susie up, waiting for him with
rather sad troubled expression on her face; but
her smile of joyful welcome over-arehed the sad
ness, like the rainbow, spanning the cloud. She
had nice bit Of broiled fowl and cup OF hot eof
al -,a,l,- of his