The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1857-07-30

that your happiness for the future must
depend upon your own exertions," she
continued; and just SO far as you use
lyour earnest endeavors for the peace and
happiness of your husband, will your
own be gained. Laura you are too will
ful, and fear that even to your husband
you will betray your unhappy trait in
your disposition"
But tell me, mother, would you have
me the slave of husband? Am / going
to be married just for the sake of having
a man to rule me? BY no means.
know my rights better. lie may be as
Isurcd that l shall maintain all the privi-
lleges tfat belonged to me. But in sober
earnest, my mother dear, cannot see
what there is that should SO frighten you.
Let me tell you that William Wilmington
is not the man to look for mere drudge
in his wife,"
"My child, you misunderstood me-
You misconstrue my meaning. You
know your husband becomes responsible
for your support
That's bis own choice isn't i.?''
"Certainly, and he does it because he
hopes he shall be happy in your society.
A good husband looks for all that is kind
and gentle in his wife. His home is his
refuge from the cares and business of life
and there he looks for the sweet peace
and content which no other spot on
earth can afford, and if he find it not
there, where then shall he look? O.,
Laura, trcmble lest you should forget
all this
t'Now, MOTHER" uttered the half
thoughtless girl, "you really provoke me.
What is the use of making such noun
tain out of nothing?'
"Hush, Laura. Look for yourself up
on what occurred last Sabbath evening.
Then you betrayed temper that made
William really unhappy"
"Wcll, and didn't he provoke me to it?"
"No; by no means. He only wished
you to wear more suitable dress to the
lecture"
"And I should like TO know what bust
ness it is to him what dress / weal?"
"a great deal, Laura. He only re-
quested that you should wear something
lnorearound your neck and shoulders
something that would protect you against
the cold; and surely husband has a
right to do that
"Then let him wait till he is my hus-
band, and even then I'll teach him that
he must not expect to rule me-"
Mrs. Burke gazed for moment into
the handsome features of her daughter,
and then a tear came to her eye. She
knew that Laura loved William Withing-
ton with her whole soul; but she saw, too,
that that love would fail to make her
what good wife ought TO be.
'.Mother, dear mother exclaimed Lau-
ra,' springing to the side of her kind pa
rent, and throwing her arms about her
neck, "what makes you weep? Forgive
me for what | have said, if | can effect
you thus"
Laura sit down by my side, and l
will tell you something that have hilh-
erto kept from you. will open to you
a page in my life book that meant to
have kept forever closed in my own
heart"
The fair girl sat down by her mothers
side. and looked wonderingly up.
at is ofyour father I would speak
..IIe died before can remember
The tears gathered more thickly in the
mothers eyes, and it was some time ere
she could speak, but at length she com
manded her feelings, and laying her
hands upon her young daughters brow,
she commenced
tsLaura, hcten TO me now, for | can
hold up mirror within which you shall
see what may be your own future. l
was scarcely eighteen when | gave my
hand to James Burke. lie was man uf
kind feelings and warm heart. and
know he loved me truly and faithfully ;
yet his feelings were impulsive, his sense
of right and wrong was keen and unmis-
takeable, and in all his emotions he was
sensitive in tho extreme. He held his
honor sacred, and to small things he
stopped not. Let me tell you that Will
liam Wilmington is almost his counter
part.
When married my husband,
knew his disposition and feelings; lov:
ed him, and yet had resolved upon nc
pains to meet his wishes and make hi,
home happy. l forgot that love has ir
imperative duties-that the mere mar
riage relation may be made the most mis-
!, cradle on Garth, instead of being tn,
) most happy. | forgot that my own hap
! piness depended upon the happiness Q
J my husband, and that he could not b,