Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-04-27
She has a hard word on the subject of maFli-

She has hard word on the subject of maFIi-
age, as witness:
"Should it ever come to marriage-[t this is
from the chapteron Gossipl-and the wonder is,
considering all these things, that any love affair
ever does come to that climax at all, or that any
honest hearted, delicate-minded young people,
ever have the courage to indulge the world by
an open attachment or Observation-Disclosures
and earthI how it is talked about
Is not n little episode like this Mt the root OF
NEARLY all the family fucds lost friendships, cut
acquaintanceships, pitifully rife In this wori0!
! II is the women who are ut the bottom OF u ALL
who in the narrowneSs or darkness of their daily
lives, are glad to catch ut any straw of interest
! Especially the unmarried, the idle, the rlcn
! and the childless."
On OLD MAIDs.-"There never was an nm
| happy old maid yet who would not have been
equally unhappy as wife-and more guilty
for she would have made two people miserable
instead of one"
on FEMALE EDUCATION. do solemny aver,
having see more than one generation of girls
grow up into womanhoOd, that the fairest and
hest specimens of our sex that have ever
known have been among those who have never
gone to school, or scarcely ever had regular
gOvernesS.
on KEEPING a SEcKEr.-And here is one ac-
cusation which most sorrowfully bring against
woman, as being much more guilty than man.
We can keep Secret-ay, against all SATIRE
protest we can-wlie the contider remains
our friend; but II that tie ceases, pop! out It
comes !"
On FEsAgE DoMEsTIcs Cook, who has only
to dress the dinner, and neither to work for il
nor pay for il, turns up her nose at MisSis
'meanness,' 4. e. displeaSure at waste or e1trav-
agance-cook, who, if any crash came, has only
to look out for another place; while MiSSis has
her five children, whose little mouths must be
filled, and little bodies must be clothed, and
Master whom it breaks her heart to see coming
in from the city, haggard, tired and crOss-a
crossness he cannot help, poor man!-or sitting
down with pitifu patience, sick and sad, all
most wishing, save for her and her children,
that he could lay his head on her shoulder and
die! Whnt does cook in the Kitchen, fat and
comfortable know OF ali these thingS-Of the
agonized struggle for position and character
nay mere bread--which makes the days and
nights of Thousands of the professional classes
one long battle for life2
Also, the pretty housemaid. who has her reg
ular work, and periodical holiday, with her
young man coming faithfully on Sundays,
about whom, should he turn out false, she rare.
" makes fuss, but quickly takes up with an.
other; she being essentially practical, and men
tai suffering being happily out of her line
Little she guesSes of all the conflicts, tOrmentS
and endurances which fall to the lot Of natures
whom n different cultivation, if not finer or
ganization, has rendered more alive to another
sort of trouble-that anguish of spirit which is
worse than any bodily pain. Little she knows,
when she comes in singing to dust the parlor,
of many 4 cruel scene transacted there: OF of
many an hour of mortal agony, bitter as death,
yet sharpened by the full consciousness of youth
and life, which has been spent in the pretty
room, outside which she grumbles so, because
miss arit9 keep her door locked, and it'll be
dinner time afore ever body get the beds
made D."