Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1858-09-09

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could he have quiet, neat, we'll ordered
home Would his children have true
mother? No A par7or daughter will
make a parlor rife. Brilliant, fascinating
"a rare and costly t-challenging
the admiration of the world, it may be,
but never the holy source and centre of
the comfort and peace of her family.
And thus rudely my rose colored rever-
les were changed to sombre hued realities
[ queried, was Miss T. an exception to this
rule? How many young ladies of my ac-
quaintanee here really helps to their
mothers in domestic affairs How many
would not blush with shame at being seen
making bread-not cake, but bread p
How many could cook and get on the table
a good dinner, or superintend or direct
such an undertaking? How many towhom
the old fashioned dish cloth is not 'hor-
rid thing?' How many could starch and
iron shirt bosom or collar, so It would
look respectable
Alas how few could I recall who would
not properly be numbered in the long list of
those to whom these things were not only
mysteries, but absolutely disagreeables and
undesirables | say alas !, for it is sad
thing, not only for US young men, the fu-
ture husbands of these frail lilies of the
field who toll not, neither do they spin,'
but to the daughters themselves.
Look at them-look at yourselves, young
ladies' Where is the round, plump, solid
arm and cheek of your grandmother, at
your age? Where is her power OF endu-
rance, her exuberant spirit, depressed by
no circumstances; her energy and self re-
lance, equal to her emergency; and where
in the future are you to obtain strength to
pass unscathed through the perils of ma
: ternity, as did she?
Look around you as the young wives and
= mothers; what pitiable specimens of femi
nine humanity what discouraged, disheart
ened objects of commisseration what ira
;, ces of pain and illness are written upon
| their shrunken visages before the fifth an
IS niversary of the honeymoon
> Look at the unhappy countenances O
half the young husbands you meet Dc
G they not speak of pleasing anticipations
n followed by unpleasant realities How
d many husband, who in his bachelor day
D. fondly dreamed of blithe, cheerful, nea
Ie housewife, whose larklike song should tes
e tify each morning that household dutie
n, were we'll spring of pleasure, has foun'
5 by sad experience, the wide difference be
ly tween romance and reality And ho5
Of many young man of marriageable ag
and fine prospects, seeing the rude dispe
lg ling Of this or that companions dream Q
ID domestic enjoyment, takes warming, an
r. holdsshimself sternly aloof from all matr
nonial cntanglements. [ assure you, !;
cs dies, I know many young man, consider
C. ed by calculating mammas, and amiabl
daghters, as decidedly good match, wht
if in confidential conversation, does not hes
RS tate to say that he does not dare to g
d; married.
ks why said young man, of wealth an
/ position, to me, but last week, when
marry, | want a home and L have bee
,st looking for the last FIVE years for wife ca
ng culated, by nature and education, to mai
les home for me, and n true m1ther for Il
rk children, but in vain, so far. Is not heal
. needed? But how can the frail loung
N, and twaddlcr, to whom the midnight gla
,h of the chandelier is far more familiar tn;
he the morning sur, have health for herse
Sc or to bequeath to her children? Is not
cheerful disposition needed? But he
Mt can this be acquired or kept by those who
of lives are but one constant round Of self
ew frivolity? How can one gain habits
hat care and application, without having ey
cen the care of her own room? How can O.
superintend the details Of housekeepin
ith so as to minister to the comfort of t
md household, to whom every item Of Il
i'm housekeeping is not only unknown, b
ltly positively 'hatefulT No, 1 tell you, Ere
mi although I may be able to support an a
lpts mated parlor ornament, yet my taste dt
not run that way and SO | choose to remi
"a bachelor, until I find an intelligent g
ns.' with domestic accomplishments
to Is not this common sense concusi
r to ladies2 Whether it is or not, many
be- the most desirable young men for husbal