Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1857-06-18
From tl,e Home Journal.
Matrimony in Hoops.


shall not give his letter, but proceed at once Il
the she-kinah Of the story.
| Frederick l., the husband of the fair writer
like some other people, had a grandfather
good old English gentleman, who flew into Z
passion with his pretty daughter for marrying
an American officer, and cut her off with az hi
ling He lived to considerable size and age
without finding the comfort he expected in his
roast beef and ale-all the time signing for the
rosy-cheeked girl whom lie had driven from his
door, and swearing. with sundry stamps of his
substantial foot, never to forgive her offence
Bat the time came when he could no longer
stamp and swear, and then he relented asu made
a change in his will, bequeathing five hundred
pounds and his blessing TO his daughter and an
estate in Surrey to her only son, Fred, ON con
dition that he SHOULD have a male heir and re-
side in England. The blessing came too late.
for his child had long been sleeping unler the
daisies of the village church yard at f; but es.
states are always available, and Fred, who was
now passed nidshipman in the navy, ever head
and ears in debt and in love, too, drank glori-
| Gus bumper to the memory of his departed rela-
tive, and wished him bon royage upward or
downward, As the case might be; then springing
into & coach, made the best cf his way TO La
Ruche tp communicate his good fortune to our
selves and the fair lads OF his love then guest
at our house.
Madeleine was gay little beauty, who had
snapped the heart-strings Of a whole legion OF
! lovers before she wound those Of Fred round her
white fingers. She used to laugh about it right
merrily, and tell me how many she had driven
INTO the church, how many had sought refuge
| III California, and how many had signed out their
despair in poetry. She thought, upon the whole,
| ;hst she had done the world excellent service,
and pulled the brown ringlots over her laugh
| ing eyes, she declared that it was fine fun,
and she meant to keep it up just as long as she
could.
Bat all was over when Fred came along.
saw, from the FIRST, how it would end. She fut-
! tered about Ike restless heart, biushed at the
mention of his name, and ran when she heard
! his tootstep-the little gipsy!-she knew well
enough that he d follow her! And he did follow
! witls an ardor that left no doubt of his earnest
1 ness; and she led him through thickets and
! hrambles, and every dsagrceable place she could
think Of till, one day, took her TO task about
it. saying twas plain TO me that she wished him
- follow her through life. She scurned the idea.
! Pooh what dld she care for himi She wa, on
/ ~ flirting, and he knew it-but it was funny 70
see him sc1atch himself to pull wild roses for hCr;
wasn't it, And he had a perfect mustachc;
hadn't he! Then she sighed and said She never
| meant 10 marry-never; she q have all the pleas
Ure within her reach, and after chat, turn into a
Florence Nightingale: husbands were such hor-
ribv stuuid tnngs-so different from lovers;
didn't think so! | shook my finger at her,
and WIS not ~ all surprised when Fred told
me next day, in an ecstasy of delight, that
he had kissed, he couldn't say how many Of,
the sweetest consents in the world, from her rosy
linsl
All. Miss Madeleine! How her tune changed
She beoan TO think wives the iappicst creatures
in the universe, when they hal husbands Ike
Frcd-which. to be sure, was not once in q
thousand times. She began to identify herself
with them Immediately. One was SO TRANQUILITY
inc robes were so becoming ald those charm
mo little loves of French caps for the breakfast
taIIel The conversation. foo-nOne of your
oruT "Madcleine the toast!'-(no offence to
dear papa)-hut, MY dear. the toast. if YOU
nIcase.' Oh, she'd be lust as lappy as a queen
when She should become Mrs; She could, T
saw The rest,
but .papa' was inexorabe-not TO be propi
tiated at all, as Madeleine said, with tears; pa.
rents were such a trouble to their children now
adays. lie said Fred was poor-too poor to
marry: they must wait till lie should wear a
lieutenant's cpauette-as itthey cared for that
But there WAS no help for it. and they had 70
submit; though Madeleine tod me, with smile
OF triumph. how Fred had sworn TO run away
with her il the epanlette didn't come soon, Just
rs if III do such thing: she SAID. Just as If
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home station, 10 WIllch ne had Inc goou lof-
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listed tor the separation Whcn hadete.ue rear
ed more than any other thinG III ihe VIDE
world. AS happy as two pigeons on the sunny
side OF barn. she Wlolc 20 US 9HoIti! "IlSi tHeII
marriage
Time rolled on-one, two, three years. Ma
IeIc;ne's father died and left her three thousand
dollars-au he possessed; the coveted epaulette
c,accd Frcd's handsome shoulders he was proud
ii his wife. and she of him; but-theere appear
ed no prospect OF their possessing ne estate III
Surrey! DWng our occasiona! vls.tS' we began
1o notice that, in spite OF their tender deVotioh
TO each other, both wore troubled expression
til at length Madeleine came to grow pale ana
thin; and, ct times, there was q qulver III her
very smile when speaking OF her husband. Fred
told me, privately, that he thought that cursed
VIII would kill his sweet wife lie dldn care
I . rush. lie said, to own The whole OF surrey;
| bpf, as he spoke. he k;c%e4 the Feoo.C2 rom
h.s pathway with an impotence that tod Il If
/ te~ent story. Ny heart ached :"r them o2''h ahG