The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1857-02-18
Patent Sermon, by Dow, Jr.-
Marriage Duty.

TExT.--Don't tell me you havn't got time,
That other things claim your attention,
There's not the least reason or rhyme,
In the wisest excuse you can mention |;
Don't tell Inc "about other fish,
Your duty is done when you buy 'em |;
And you will never relish the dish,
Unless you We o woman to "fry en-"
Young man if you have arrived at
the right point in life for it, let every
other consideration give way to that Of
getting married. Don't think of doing
anything else. Keep pokipg about a.
mong the rubbish of tho world till you
have stirred up gem worth possessing
in the shape Of a wife. Never think of
delaying the matter--for you know de.
lays, as well as wild 6oars, are danger.
Gus, good wife is tie most constant
and faithful companion you can possibly
have by your side while performing the
journey of lifs--a dog isn't touch to
her. She is of moro service, too, than
you may at frs: imagine She can
''smoth your linen and your cares" for
you-mend your trouses and pcrchance
your maDners--sweeten your moments
as well as your tea, and coffee for you
ruffie, perhaps, your shirt bosom. but not
your temper and instead of sowing tho
seeds of sorrow in your path, she will
sew buttons on your shirt, plant happi-
ness instead of harrow teeth in your bo.
som. Yes, and if you arc too confouud-
ed lazy or too proud to do such work
yourself, she will carry swill to hogs,
chop wood, dig potatoes for dinner, for
her husband is such that she will do any.
thing to please him-oxccpt receive
company in her every day clothes.
When a woman loves she loves with
a double distilled devotedness, and when
she hates she hates on u high pressure
principle. Her love is as doep as tho
ocean, as strong as hemp halter, immu.
table as the rock of ages. She won't
change il. except in a strong fit of jeal.
ousy, and even then it fingers, as ifloth
to part, like evening twilight at the win
dows of the west. Get married by any
means. All the excuse you can fish up
against "doing the deed" aren't worth a
spoonful Of pigeons milk. Mark this
if blessed with health and enjoyment, aud
you are not able to support wife de-
pend upon it you are not capable Of sup.
porting yourself Therefore, so mnch
more need Of annexation for in unop,
as well as in an onion there is strength.
Get married, l repeat, man Concou.
trate your affections upon one subject,
and not distribute thom by crumbs a.
mougst host of Susans, Salies, Marys,
Elias. Betseys, Peegysaud Dorothys-
allowing each scarcely enough to nibb,a
at. Get married aud have somebody to
cheer you up as your journey through
this "lowly vale of tear to
sour up your dull, melancholy moments,
and keep your whole life, and whatever
linen you possess in some sort of Sun.
day.go'to'mccting order.
Young woman | need not tell YOU to
look out for husband, for know that
you are fixing contrivances to catch one,
and are as naturally y on the watch as
cat is for mouse. But ono word in
your ear, if you please. Don's bait your
hook with an artificial fly Of beauty; if
ycu do, the chances are ten to one that
you will catch a gudgeon-soine silly
fool of a fish that isn't worth his weight
in saw dust. Array the inner lady
with tho beautiful garments OF virtue,
modesty, true mortality wisdom and un.
Sophisticated love, aud you will dispose
ofyOurself quicker, aud to much better
advantage, than if you displayed all the
gewgaws, flippering, fol dO.rols, and fiddle.
de.dees in the universe Remember, it is
an awaful thing to live and die self.
manufactured old maid
My Hearers Your days upoa earth
are but short at tho longest, aud they
should be passed as rightcously and
pleasantly as the weather aud circum.
stances will permit. Get married while
you are young and then when the frost
of age shall fall and wi,her the flowers
of youthful affection, the leaves of con.
Dubial love will still be green aud per-
chance, joyous offspring will surround
aud grace the parent tree like ivy entwin.
lug aud adorniug the time-scratched oak.
So mote it be