Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1857-10-22

girls must have taught her that hat-band
is charged with heart quickeniag sugges-
tons, that bass VUice is wonderful music,
and that the vision,,of pair of spus is more
charming than all the landscapes in Lennox
to i company of misses anyw here from thir-
teen to eighteen wears old. We recognized
an uHaccl ultabls charm in a waist at the
premature age OF eight, the waist beinff five
years old or 'thereabouts,' and was killed at
thirty PAGES by the graceful swing of
skirt just as we stepped into the golden sep
tenniad of the teens. Our youngest, d dau-
ghter, is said to reselnble-well, no matter
whOm-ls already talking about hssband,
ami she has not seen her filth winter
Where she got the idSr is more thse we can
tell, but her doll is boy, 'as true as you
live.' Fallstaff was coward upon instiet'
perhaps children are matrimonial in the
same way. What We mean TO say is this:
that boys and girls recognize, among the
earliest facts that their natural destiny is
with ore another; and the brightest dreams
of youth-the ambitions, the struggles, the
rewards to which youth looks forward-ars
al dSeO(luISO III iOhC 1l0 lOtC pOe9Ges-
ions.
We have said, too, that to docids against
marriage IS to trample upon philosophy
Man and Woman sre the true unit. The
haf-pa of shears theory is correct. Strength
and gentleness, rugged forms and graceful,
angularity and sOftuess, positiveness and
persuasion-in other words, manhood and
womanhood-are compliments of each other
They are kind of positive aud negative
electricity which can never be easy until
resolved by kiss OF heavenly fire.
Married life has its trials and sorrows.-
Tempers may prove incompatible, and call
for forbearance. Fortune may be chary of
its favors, and enforce great seifdeLial.--
Children may be ungrateiul, and sting the
poor heart that has piilowed them. Sick
ness NAV cone, and haunt a houss hold for
years But ask the poor man struggling
along with his debts, and the weary womaR
toiling early and late, accomplishing tho
ruin Of al her beauty and her buoyancy, if
they would be placed apart could competence
De given them, and Ill their trials be bro't
to an end. The answer would be: There is
something sweeter in this companionship of
suffering than anything Tie world can offer
from its store house of joys out side oft, and
something which would make even severer
trials than ours only iron bands to draw US
more firmly together We have no ridicule
for any who through misfortune or disaP-
pointment are forced into, or conclude upon
an uDweddeG life, but towards q man who
can marry and will motor a woEkn who
can bring herself to look with contempt At
the offer OF an honest hand and heart, we
shall maintain right to exercise the gift
of ridicule whenever 3oe occasion iaVors and
the weather allows it. We are death on
Shakerism and its kindred sins and fo,lies.
We believe in matrimony rs an institution,
and we believe in it as policy. We have
known, 6rst and last, five hundred bachelors
VINO were waiting for competence before
marriage. 1t never came, and they and
their sweethearts grew old waiting for it.
If they had married, and had gone unitedly
at the work Of life with their hearts hands
and heads together, Ike twenty-five thou
sand dollars apiece on the average tais
blessed day. We can't trample on the best
part of nature and make money by it. Not
by no means.-ISprinqfsld Republican.