Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1856-01-09

the same old porch, in the same old split
bottomcd chair, and looked over at the
same old store, and there by Heaven
stood my wife, in almost the very spot l
had first seen her She was waiting for
her husband, who was following with the
nurse and child. Her husband was a
dark-skinned fellow--almost as dark as
myself, and no. very unlike me. have
since expended some severe thought on
this resemblance between me, the spirit
ual husband, and Thingamy, the phe-
nomenal husband of my wife, and it is
perfectly plain 10 me that, under the in
fiuence of the same spontaneous, uncon-
scious appcrception, she was trying her
very best to marry me; in fact, did mar
ry as near me as she possibly could.
How that fact made me love her
The whole party had came down on
the same train with me, and l bad not
known it. Fate again. They stood op-
posite me for some time, apparently rest
ing, and had the second and last II
know it will be the last) long, good look
at her. She '. IS greatly changed. No
longer the same buxom, blooming girl |
had seen years before, palting her pretty
foot against the sill, but a beautiful
woman, infinitely lovelier than the girl !;
pale, but beautiful as the bright fulfill
ment of the perfect day is beautiful.
More beautiful than the rosiest hues of
the uncertain dawn thin. but beautiful
as thought and loving cares beauliiy and
make delicate mere matter older look
ing, but possessed of that ineffable charm
which only the realization of woman's
destiny can impart 10 woman. l gazed
on her, not with breathless admiration as
al first, but with calm, intelligent adora
ton. Positively, hers was and is the
sweetest human face in all this world
Nothing, absolutely nothing was want
ing from those pale and gentle features /;
they expressed all that wife and moth
er ought to be. And even as 1 gazed,
there came into my soul that strange
pain of Vacuity and deprivatiOn--a numb
and formless hurt-which needed only
the light of reflection TO assume the
acuteness of thought, the permanence
of knowledge.
From that day l have known she was
my wife how l knew it, and why 1
knew it, has been told already, or if not
told, never will be, for it never can be.
The knowledge or conviction, if you pre-
fer to call it so, grows on me; it increa-
ses with the increasing light of morning,
is revealed in the splendol of high noon,
deepens in the pensive summer twilight,
and rises with the tutelary stars. The
winds tell of it to the melancholy trees /;
the waters repeat it with their many
liquid voices. 1t is written in cloudy
hieroglypbs upon the distant sky it is
the shadow thrown upon the plain Of
life by the sun of hope which sinks be-
hind my heart; enlarging and to enlarge,
darkening and to increase in darkness
until the night of death. 1t is-but l
am getting absurd.
Shall l remain a bachelor? q? dwindle
down and shrivel up into an old bachelor?
Never! Since can not marry my own
wife, I'll marry the wife of somebody
else, and if 1 could only find the wife Of
The man who married my wife, I'd marry
her in spite of fate. And if could only
ride about in the cars with a plenty of
nurses and children, and Thingamy
could see and know my theory, l should
be perfectly satisfied.
Dear reader, take warning by me /;
study my theory; 1t was written for you,
and for the whole human race. Try to
cultivate your spontaneous, unconscious
apperception. And if ever you sit down
in an old tavern porch and see beauti-
full young lady on the other side of the
street, don't wait for dinner, but go
right over and demand her in marriage.
You may be mistaken she may not be
your wife; she may be already married;
but no matter, it is your duty to make
the effort. If you don't, you'll regret
it; you will find yourself in my predica-
ment. You may see me any day strug-
Cling through the weeds of my uncle's
wheat-patch, looking like sheep-killing
dog, and feeling as mean as gar-broth.
No wonder have lost my wife
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