Thibodaux minerva. [volume] (Thibodaux, La.) 18??-1858, 1855-11-17
An Evening at Myrtle Cottage

VERY well for YOU, Mr.. Bachelor, said Fam
ME, Every well for YOU, indeed, how dare you
Bachelor, write about and descant upon the hap
DIV life of Il married man? and the little witch
laughed so merriy and her bright eyes sparkied SO,
that | kissed her rig ht on the spot. tie says
that you, Norman, have a soul to appreciate the
happy home you whispered to him about. Now,
why don't YOU, Mr. Bachelor, carry your theories
into practice think that one who can wrlteiso
eloquently about something he has never expert
enced would make an admirable husband. Do you
not think so, Normand9
Yes indeed, Fannie, and advise him to go to
work with all convenient haste and get married
There now. what vain creatures you men are
You seem to think all YOU have 20 do IS to say the
word, and we poor women, will snap at 1t, anu
glad OF the chance too, Sorsooth!
Well, be that as it may, | know one who was
glad enough
Now, Mr. Normand'-and lily hand held
prisoner the rest of the sentence
A truce she cried. But is it true that mar
rage nowadays has come to be a matter OF spec
ulation and convenience as Bachelor says 1t Is
I think not at least not to the extent he seems to
believe
Il fear that it is too true in great many instan-
ces, Fannie For how many young men are there,
well edueated patriotic, who would scora to do
what they or the world considered mean acton,
and yet they do not hesitate to openly avow that
thew will marry any woman who has got twenty or
thirty thousand dollars, or dozen or twenty WOODY
heads. If she is handsome so much the better, bit
if not, why, with shrug) her money will make
up for that we are not oblige to stay at home and
be bored to death by her. No. we can take our
lher) money and 60 to the North, or to the
Springs or somewhere or other and enjoy our
selves. And the poor wife is meanwhile left to
II. &c Ia,f fn,l md
life's weary hours by the pulsations OF broken
heart
Is that it, Normandy
Yes, Fannie
But, Normand cannot allow you to put all the
blame upon your sex, for do we not sometimes hear
from rosy lips such words as, Is he rich. Does he
keep good establishment, or what are his pros
poets in life'-Now, l do not blame any woman for
nquiring into and finding out all about him to
whom she NAV entertain the idea of linking her
destnies 1t is her right-it is her duty; TOR no
woman wishes to entail upon herself misery, and
blight her young life with despair. But Il blush
for sex to say it, is there not many fair maiden
even while the snowy folds of the bridal veil en-
velops her beautiful forn,-even while she Is be-
ing led to the alter for worthy marriage-whose
heart whispers to her He is far nober-He is far
handsomer; | love him for himself but he is poor
and with sigh she gives her hand to the man of
money
And her heart
'Ah her heart. what though it is crushed; that
is nothing, no nothing. Her friends compliment
her on her brilliant marriage her Offering pros
pects in life and So day by day, she smothers and
forces back the feelings that God planted in her
soul, and gradually but surely, becomes woman
Of the world, whose whole delight Is in the soul
less observations of fashionable life
sWouan's office is a high one. While man
poes out into the world to battle with its difficult
ties to accumulate wealth, to win its high honors.
Il is woman's duty 10 remain at home to receive
the weary wanderer after his days TOLL to smooth
his burning brow, to entce the smile of happiness
to his ps and to his heart and by her endearnenta
and kind council, lead him to the family shrine
the feotstool of Heaven therein to bow to that God
whose glory was, and is, and ever shall be-"
LADY THIEF.-Oue day last week, after
the Louisville stage had left the breakfast
stand at Bardstown, Ky, Mr. Sim. Lewis, the
landlord, observed that his gold watch was
missing from its accustomed place in the ladies'
sitting room He Immediately started after the
stace-overtook it-ordered halt and stated
his case Immediately some Of the passengers
proposed to search, and al got out Of the stage
for that purpose except one lady. She rather
declined the arrangement, and otherwise acted
in such way as to excite suspicion. There
fore the driver felt up her sleeve, and behold,
out came the watch.
The Gladly" was not arrested, but kindly
permitted to continue her way to her home in
town further South.