The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1856-11-20

subject, to young people, that We could think
of If the ladies don't thank us for il, we
ball be disappointed. Here tits: " ~
MARRIAGE A DUTY.
I TExr.-Don't tell me YOU Haven't got time.
| That other things claim your attention;
There's not the least reason rhyme
| De- In the wisest excuse you mention:
ION Don't tell me about other ASH .gIHfl
! VIZ Your duty is done when YOU BUY EN-
And YOU never will relish the DISH
Unless you've WOMAN to fry en-
| Ny HEARERs--I have no doubt that, after
| you have hesid my discourse, you will askin
your minds whether your preacher has ia
ken unto HIMSELF WIFE, and is now luxdria-
ting in the tai clover of connubial bliss, that
4 he preacheth thus Therefore answer be-
foretme, No; but have got measured for
one, and expect to conjugate as soon as my
somewhat diverged rays of affection can be
brought little more to focus through the
! burning lens OF love. | deem ii the duty of
ali to get married--once in their lifetime, at
least. 1t is yielding obedience to the wise
commands OF nature. Every gsnder has his
1 goose, and the birds all mate at proper sea-
son. Who ever heard oil an old gander go
| ing down to the grave gosling-less, unless he
was prevented from fulfilling his destination
| BY the arbitrary customs of artificial society
| IL is Col who tells the brute creation to CO.
habit and propagate, without the fuss aud
| 1ummery of long and tedious courtShip;
and they inn licitly obey, even to wood
louse. The same Col also tells you to mar
ry, and do the best you can to be fruitful
but you don't always do it. You frame some
| paltry excuse or other-such as L have 9TH
er fish 10 fry too busy to think of it
now,' circumstances won't permit at pres
ent, I'll think of it by and by, &c. and so
| you trudge on through the wide world alone,
! from the meridian of manhood to the sunset
Of age, without having effected the object for
which you were placed upon earth, and Of no
more use than the ff:h wheel TO coach,
moon in the daytime, lock without key, or
a saddle and no horse to ride.
Young man if you have arrived at the
right point in life for it, let every other con-
sideration give way to that of getting mar
ried. Don't think of doing anything else. Keep
poking about among the rubbi h of the world
| Ill! you have stirred up a gem worth possess
ing, in the shape Of wife. Never think of
delaying the matter; for you know delays,
rs well as wild boars, are dangerous. A
good wife is the most constant and faithful
companion you can possibly have by your
side while performing the journey of life--a
dog isn't touch 10 her. She is of more SER
vice, too, than you may first imagine. she
can Smooth your linen and your cares for
vou-mend your trousers, and perchance
your manners-sweeten your sour moments
as well as your tea and coffee for you-luf-
he, perhaps, your shirt bosom, but not your
temper and, instead of sowing the seeds of
sorrow in your path, she will soa bu.toGs on
your shiltg, and plant happiness instead of
harrow teeth in your bosom. Yes--and ii
YOU are too confoundedly lazy or too proud
to do such work yourself she will carry swill
to the hogs, chop wood, and dig potatoes for
dinner for her love for her husband is such
that she will do anything to please him-cx-
clothes. When woman loves, she loves
with doutle-iistlled devotedness ana
when she hates, she hates on the high
pressure principle. Her love is as deep as
the ocean, as strong as hempen halter, and
as lmmutable as the rock of ages She won't
change it, except it is in very strong f of
jealousy and even then it fingers, as if 10th
to part like evening twilight at the windows
OF the west. Get married. by all means
All the excuses you can fish up against do
ing the deed aren't worth spoonful of pig
cons milk. Mark this-if, blest with health
/ and employment, you are not able to support
wife, depend upon it, you are not capable
of supporting yourself. Therefore so much
more need Of annexation for in union, as
well as in an onion, there is strength. Get
married, repeat, young man Concentrate
your aIt cIions upon one object, and not dis
tribute them crumb by crumb among host
OF SIs'ns, S'rahs. Marys, Elias, Betsys,
Peggys, .aud Do othys-allowin each scarce
! ~ enough to nibble at. Get married, and
have som body to cheer you up as you jour
ney through this lowly vale Of tears =
somebody to scour up your dull, melancholy
moments, and keep your whole life, and what
ever linen you possess, in some sort of a Sun
go-to-meeting order
Young woman l need not tell you to o1k
out for husband, for know that you are
hxlng contrivances 10 catch one, and are as
naturally on the watch as cat is for a mouse
But one word in your car, if you please
Don't bail your hook with an artificial fly Of
beauty; if you do, the chances are ten to
o2s that you will catch gudgeon-some sill
ly lOol OF fish that isn't worth his weight in
saw-dnst. Array the inner lady with the
beautiful garments of virtue, modesty, truth,
morality, wisdom, and unsophisticated love,
and you will dispose of yourself quicker. and
to much better advantage, than you would if
/ you displayed all the gewgaws, hipperjgs,
lUl-de-rols. and fiddle de-dees in the universe
Remember, it is an awful thing to live and
die a self-manufActured old maid
My hearers-diyide off into couples, as
soon rs possible, if you would add consider
ahle to your own happiness, and little to
Posterity. Your days upon earth are but
short at the longest, and they should be pass
ed as asrghteously and pleasantly as the wealth
er and circumstances will permit. Get mar
ried while you are young ; and then, when
tue irosts of age shall fail and wither the