Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1857-01-23
Women aud sgarriage-.

have speculated a great deal upon matrimo-
ny hive seen young and beautiful women.
the pride Of gay circles, married as the world
says-well. Some have moved into costly houses
aud their friends have all come and looked at
their furniture and their splendid arrangements
for happiness. and they have gone away and
| committed them 10 their sunny hopes cheeerfllly
aud without fear. IL is natural 10 be sanguiue TO
the Young at such times ain carried away by
similar feelings. ] love to get unobserved into a
corner. aud watch the bride in her white attire,
! and with her smiling face and her soft eyes ma
| king me in their pride Of life weave a waking
| dream of future happiness and persuade myself
| that il will be true | think how they will sit
| upon tie luxurious sofa as tho twilight falls and
| build gay hopes,nnd murmur in low tones the not
! forbidden tenderness; and how ihrngly the al
lowed kIss,and the beautiful endearments of wed
ded life will make even their parting Joyous. and
how gladly come back from the crowd and the
empty mirih of the gay, 10 each others quiet
company. picture to myself that young orea-
ture who bushes even now at his hesitating ca
ress, listening eagerly for his footsteps a. the
night steuls on. and wishing that he would come;
and when he enters at last. and with mn affection
as unaying rs his pulse, folds her to his bosom,
can feel the tide that goes flowing through the
heart, aud gazing with him on the graceful form
rs she moves about for the kind Offices of afec
ton, soothing all his unquict cares, and making
him forget oveL himself in her young and un-
Swallowed bea~y. 60 forward Tor years and
see her luSnriant hair put soberly away from her
brow, and her gir'isb eraces resigned into digni-
ty, aud loveliness chastened with the gentle
meckness of maternal affection. Her husband
looks on her with proud eye, and shows her
the same fervent love aud delicate attentions,
which first her; and her fair children are
grown about them and they go on full of honor
and unironblcd years, and are remembered when
they die.
At the Convent of Poor Cares. Brussels the
nuns never lie down. but sleep upright. II
went says the author of "Flemish Interiors"
"up n narrow, corkscrew, stone staircase, into
their coils. and saw their extraordinary beds:they
consist of n hard and almost cylindrical mattress
stuffed with straw, about three feet long, at light
angles to which is fixed equally hard and up
right mattress of straw, (paiiiasse), to support
the back. There is no pillow. neither ARE there
sheets, and only one small. thin blanket. A ba-
sin OF water stood on the floor and the sleeping
habit hung on peg behind tho door. There
was no other furniture. A small window opened
on tho garden, and the hoLeysuckle which en-
powered it gave something of cheerful aspect to
the denuded little dormitory. They rise at half
past four o'clock arc allowed only five minutes
to wash and dress, and go down to chapel, where
they pray and mediate till half past five, when
their first mass is said; tn is always at fixed
hour and is followed by one and sometimes two
more. Alter these. they remain at chapel till
half past eleven. Their first meal, which they
call dinner, is at helf-pas twelve. and consists
cntirey of herbs vegetables etc. Butter, cheese
milk, and whit they call tdir battu (milk and eggs
beaten up, they also eat, but not at lent
Their second and last meals is at 7 and consists
of dry bread and domestic beer The sisters
do everything for themselves, washing mending,
securing &c. The rule of the lay. sisters is
slightly less severe in every particular but even
this IS asceiic enough 10 starte most secular
persons. The sister who showed US the mystic
ries of the house was very pleasant, amlable
looking woman, about thirty five. She had
peculiarly calm, holy expression of countenance,
ana expressed herself perfectly satisfied in the
life of which she had made choice, now about
fifteen years since. The discipline they observe,
She said, was good for the soul and body too. 1t
seems they removed from honse To house. to
prevent too great an attachment to one locality.
She and her lay sister sent. Il short time ago
n mission tx England, and this was another
considerable grievance to her; but she snd she
kept her troubles to herself, and accepted it rs
one of the acts of submission to the will of her
superior. to which her rules bound her. The
first night they arrived in London, when they put
up ut the hotel, they were shown into room
where the beds were, of course, horizontal. This
wnsa difficulty which had not occurred TO them,
and they made up their minds to adnpt the same
position rs the rest of the world bat no sooner
had they tried it than they found il impossible to
sleep; accordingly they relinqu-hed the attempt,
and taking the mattress off the bedsteud, placed
it half upright against the wall. aud had reason
to be perfectly satisfied with their ingenious OK
pedent."-N. q. Pic.