Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1858-10-13
4 Fast Young Man Marrying q Pretty Mil
liner and Running Away from her In q

A Fast Young Man Marrying q Pretty Mil
liner and Running Away from her In q
few months. ~ : :
Some months since fast young man. clerk
in dry good house on Fifth street, between
Main and Walnut, became acquainted with
fair and youthful milliner, not devoid of co.
quetishness-a pretty and Interesting girl, in
"A word, for whom most of the opposite seq
would have found no difficulty In forming an
attachment The dry goods clerk-we will call
him Harry WAS no exception, and his
iiirtations ended in serious and prophe tic
pointing to marriage. Still, he postponed that
solemn step to determine if that impre ssiye
ceremony could not be avoided but, at last,
concluding that, wedlock alono was the golden
key that would unlock the gate Of the garden
happiness, he made " Minnie" the wife of his
bosom.
For few weeks-for two or three months
perhaps-Harry was devoted to his consort
and held himself aloof. from the designations
and excitements in which, during his bachelor
hood, be had mingled. Soon, however, the
novelty OF his situation wore away, and his
longing for the old idols returned. Minnie
was as fair as when the blush of maidenbood
mantled her checks, and, moreover, she was
gentle and afectionate, an excellapt wife in
Fact, and one Harry should have appreciated.
did not at ali :. ~
At the termination of six months the union
was found to be Incompatible, at least on the
part OF one member Of the connubi firm. and
from that period Harry relapsed into his old
habits, and was out every night until the
dawn, indulging in suppers, while his patient
wife, pale from watching, sat at home wonder
ing, Tor the thousandth, time, as the city
clocks tolled out the hours heraiding the an.
preaching morn, why he did not come.
The head OF the house began to be cramped
for means, as he expended more in his pleasures
that would have suficed for thrice the comfort
they enjoyed His credit he had nearly ex-
hausted, and weary of his wife and of his
Strengthened circumstances, he determined 10
do something that would produce change.
One morning he entered his wife's apart.
ments, his face radiant with joy. and informed
her he had just received intelligence that he
had fallen heir to large estate by the decease
of Southern relative. Minnie was delighted
with the idea; believing that half her husbands
entrangemant was owing to his want of wealth.
She had, We should have stated, saved by in
dustry before her marriage, some five hundred
dollars and Harry at once asked her to loan
him a portion ofthis sum- He often endeayored
to obtain possession of il before in vain, as she
was desrous of keepingit, as the phrase is, for q
rainy day-a request, which, under the cir
cumstances- she could not refuse, as be needed
the money for his travelling expenses She
gave him the desired amount, and the next day
he was off for the South to claim his in
heritance
The poor wife is unhappy of course, but
fortunately has little of the commodity with
which her sex are usually so i'll provided
philosophy. She bad learned before marriage to
be independent, and she will be so again While
she trudges to her morning labors at home
alter the accomplishment in the evening, as she
did ere marriage came, she feels melancholy to
think how her hope and love were blighted,
but is cOnsoled to think the flower once blasted
no frost can harm again.-Cinc.nnati En-
gHiTeT.