The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1857-10-22
Maiden Medi,ations, Fancy Free.

! am lone, lorn woman Ms Gumbrdgt
wasn't clrcums ance to me Ineed public
sympathy, and if don't get il won't answe
for the consequences!
am not spinster of-well won't bore yo,
with particulars,but | am turned of Twenty-Five
aud have just returned from the iued,ling of {
girl of sixteen have borne weddings OF einh
teen and twenty with an exemplary patience
that Job might have envied but when it come.
to slr-teen--l leave il to your sense of decency
dear reader, il it is not enough to exasperate q
seraph.
| Not that twenty-five AMI upward II have nc
intention to deny nv age, whatever NV niece;
may say,) not that twenty-five and'upward is old
but sixteen is so absurdly young! Why. even
can remember seeing the imperlinent little chit
in coraIS and long clothes Ito be sure [ must
have been in pantalettes and pinafores myself)
aud there she was in vail AMI orange b! ossoms
! actually looking as self possessed as if getins
married were quite an everyday affair, and o
80 sort of consequence = The brazen faxed
little huz-v! In my day--ahem! would saw n
few wears ago girl of that age would have
been studying grGmmar, in chintz frock and
silk apron, with The 7ail md orange blossoms
floating like dim wi;ite coud in some fdr-ofl
vista of the imaginary ful2re bat mothers were
not mere chaperons then,ano ialhrrS were some
thing more than nuck-rakes.
shall know how TO blush stared her fuIl in
the face, but her color never depended by he
shadow OF shade She only tossed uD her
silly little head. as much as t1 say, don't you
wish yOu Could?" As # such BRIDEGROOM
would be any temptation. As I'm a living nirl
don't believe lie was twenty? What could
his mother have been thinking of? If she waS
tired OF taking care of him, she had better ha We
chosen woman capable of washing his face
and curling his hair for him-not that | know
any sensible woman who would undertak. the
task, however. ...... .....
Bless M. what farce that BEAUTIFUL marriage
service has become: " Wilt thou have this man
to be thy welded hushand?' Couldn't dispen.
satlon be had from somewhere for mtrolu
cling the words boy and girl, on such occa.
sions' 1t would seem like a mockery when
real man and woman do by any chance get
married.
For better, fof worse, for richer, for poorer,
in sickness and in health, to love aud TO cher
lsh till death us do part Much they know Of
the poverty and toll, and sickness, and strife
and discourogrment and sorrow, through which
this vow may cad them!
with all my worldly goods thee ondow
wonder what it Was he gave away in such a |
wholesale fashion? Th' snowy shirt with itsI
dellcst' embroidery wss mammd'S work; BAIL
AMI Back have claim on the diamond studs
and sleeve-buttons, tha fdultlrss coat and vest
aud ine1pressiblrs blOng TO his tailor, and the
dainty boots to his shoemaker; so there is moth. |
ing left for little Miss but til, shadowy nous, |
taclle, that curlS like a rpminiscence Of cigar.
smoke round the corners Of his rasy little mouth
and il that is worth anything. the barb.r has |
the best right to il, Oh the men, OF rather the |
boys that girls will marry! .
As If any one could not marry at sixteen, i'll
they would accept the first poplnay that oier.
ed himself When Iwas sixteen ha plenty
OF lovers TO spare, and didn't make a business
OF entanging them either Girls in nv time did
not offer themselves up as sacrilicrs TO the "pi-
and dragon for The sake nf a husband neither
were they employed as walking advertisements
By millnerS; neither did 'hey allow rxperimen
sll embraces in Prgblic. They wore substantial
silk gowns, with bohicrs aud slaeyes insteal ol
lossamrr skirts with waislband; ano th,,
'tsld at home AMI h'lp-d heir mothers, or
stitched THEN samplers, AMI learned their cate.
chisms aud snng Gods nrase in the church, in.
stead Of gaddisg about hslfdressed, OF readins