New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1856-05-05
i 1.ETTER FROM GEsEss GEMTA.
Marriage, the bloom OF blight of III mems happiness

Dear Crescent: I have heard young girls, or SEN
tmenal old maids and widows chat Of love ere this
The FIRST from q fancy INDUCED in by all who have
not cut their wisdom teeth the second, from an idea
that Looks nterestingto pirate of welded love and
its felicity and the third sometimes from desire to
have support when too lazy to earn perhaps
from that :" .bewitchment y Fanny Fern writes So
feelngy Of, and which served to lure her nhater
as she il, the third time into its tolls. Yet have
heard but few who seem to have studied the matter
50 rery closely who have peopled their castleso en-
tirey agreeable to themselves, as your new cores
pondent " Kate mgleby, y of Lonely Vale has done.
1t must be Lonely Vale, ! for did she have a fam
opportunity of seeing welded life as it exists in nine
enths ofts vetares she might not tint her castequite
SO Colour de rose as she seems to have done when
wandering in dreams.
Youth, if the time for pleasure or antcipaons Of
pleasure, is also the time for folly and nonsensical
ideas, and would tell your /" countrie lassie, F."
though Ecitybred, world-wise girls, might not ex
actly FAINT nor deem they were Gtransgressng the
bounds of modesty,' in acknowledging that they too
were some Of them g for union. 1.-THE same time,
are not pulled up with the conceit that their
paths must necessarily lead through pleasant places
that they do not know a woman may learn from sad
experience, that very gallant lover may prove a
very selfish Indifferent husband, very fine fellow
may care for no one, save sele-after the gordian
knot Is tied. 0 'u"fn -4' g. %
Old Time may touch our brow with his wlinkled
finger, tracing dark burrows there He may rob our
eyes Of their lustre, step Of its buoyancy but if
our hearts be righthe cannot HARM and matrmony is
not necessary to keep hearts in their right place.
For acts of pure beneyoence can turn to more ul-
welded folk than can to woIshippers at .Hymen's
shrine. 'snuff and scandal may be the solacing
ingredients in the lives Of the old maids with whom
| g Kate mgleby is aequant, but will engage to
point her out five matrons who indulge in both and
especially the LATTER for every old maid she can show
me. single life, properly led, can leave no want in
the heart Selsfness, cold and heartless seshness,
| we are as apt to find the inhabtant of matron and
benedict bosoms as that of old maid Or bachelor.
Good deeds will leave sunny memories in the hearts
of any who do them; acts of kindness will haunt the
footsteps and return to and inger around the hearts
of maid wife, or widow-wl lirger the rose scent
in the vase, years after the donor has forgotten the
simple deed. The measure we mete shall be meas
ured unto us again; and we have dealt by the aged
we shall find some to do by us in our love of need
if have soothed and solaced we will not be suffered
to tread the rugged decline of LIES steep hill without
an attending hand to guide lettering steps and
tend with love our increasing wants.
| have never for a moment thought there could
not be happiness In wedock; but run the. world
through with me, and for every happy, contented
couple you point me out, will show you hundreds
who oathe the tie and detest the etters which strug
gled against but eat ledeeper in.