The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1859-03-01


world does mot need your bodily presence 60
much a. i needs your moral herosm lfyou
dle rather than live falsely. YOU will enrich
i by one great example Moreo,e ar granting
that you must love somebody" does il ev-
identiy follow that You .mnst love- grown
man IN possession Of respectable yearly
income Look abroad at tho orphans,
thousands upon thousands, fntherless and
mosneriess, to whom your love would be rs
the dew Of Hermon Shrisi's little ones are
al around yOu-the ignorant. the uncared
Tor, the outcast Lavish on them your ire
pressible affection. The sunshine OF love
might melt the ice in which thc:r
peter nature is encrustcd and warm
INTO healthy vigorous growth the wasting
germ Of many virtue. The idea girls, the
sded OF sacrificing your whole life To SO so
sort 81 person, for the sake Of having some
body TO love, in world so full OF children
!iiat the most excruciating hand-organ will
IN two minutes block up the sidewalk in any
portion OF any city with aImiring throngs of
white-headed urohiBsl
10 marry for home or for happiness is
a little better A home purchased by the
sale OF yourself is dear bargain, and hap
piness Is the most uncertain shadow YOU
can pursue. 1t is incidental 1t comes npon
US unexpectedly; but if we set on. determin
ateiy and definitely in pcrsuit of it, 1t yenar-
ally leads US into boys and quagmire, and
leaves us there.
II lnstead.of promising to love and honor
IN the future, custom enjoined woman on
her marriage day, solemly to nyow that
she did at that moment love and honor. |
verify believe there would be fewer mock
unions. think it would be safer to let the
inture build itself, taking care to secure in
me present firm foundation, than to take
the foundation for granted, and proceed
prematoreiy to the .surerstructure. Many
women, conscientious, but vague, unaccus-
toned to make distinctions to know clearly
the difference between one thing ami another,
alter long hesitating and yascilating do fin
ally zigzaS their way to church, and make the
most tremendous promises, with misty
kind OF belief that they shall be able to keep
them when the indefinitely distinct trial
comes-who, If the plain question were put
to them point-blank, DO you now love and
honor this man?' could not find it in their
hearts, and therefore not in their conscience,
to say es and would thereby be saved
from lifetime OF suffering, perhaps OF sin
Yet, | have heard a Christian woman SER
lousy advise her young friend to accept
marriage proposal, beca0se-she :. would not
be likely to do any better. superior wo-
man cannot expect to marry man her su-
perior" 1 have known gentleman write,
Il advise you, il an intelligent, truly Chris
tan man. who really loves you, wants YOU
to marry him. to do SO And a highly m oral
and religious community does not cease to
warn cotumacious maidens of the danger of
going through the woods and picking up a
crooked stick at last
There certainly are occasions on which, if |
you cannot Go as you would, it is quite prop
er to do as You can. Nothing can equal a
good sweet potato, you would be vere foolish |
70 throw away mashed Irish ones, because |
the frost has destroyed the more saccharine I
tuber ~ In default of mashed Irish, roasted |
will have mean flavor. 1t the potato crop |
fails, tiioston brown bread fresh from the |!
oven will enable You 10 bear the loss with |
philosophical resignation, and even boiled |
rlce the most unpretending of all edibles, is |
better than starvation but "a husband is not t
potato, and if you select him on the same |
principle, he not surprised il you find him |
extremely ndigestible.
AS the dove, to far Palmyra fiyinr
From where her native founts OF Antioch /
beam.
Weary. exhausted, longing painting, sigh
ing.
Lights sadly at IL e deserts bitter stream"
Perfectly right in the loye)
so many soul, Ger LIES dear desert far.
ing
Loves pure, congenial spring uLfound, I'M
quaaed-
Suffers, recoils, then. thirsty and despairing
rh,< - I
nearest draught
and i refreshed and strengthened, lust as the
sailor is refreshed bv the mock
Inc saltwater, which lie bears Ia frenzy TO
his fever psrched lips
do you now seeing that have dealt chief
~ in negative, ask me what shall be the to-
ken My dear child how can tell Bat
just as many girls hearts as are throbbing +
ihis wide world over by just as many ways
Will love enter in and take possession Keen
your eyes single and your heart pure, and
you VIII not fail to recognize the heavenly
visitant. The molecule OF oxygen roams
lonely through the wide world, yearninc far
its mate, and finding no rest, till of a sudden
1t meets the moiecule OF hydrogen in quiet
nook when 10 a rush, an embrace, and
there is no more either oxygen or hydrogen,
bat diamond drop of dew sparkling on the
white bosom OF the lily. Sc suppose, will
1t be with you. whenyo meet your destiny
A flash and fzzle and it is all over with
you. Your heart is goneyour power is
cone-power over your blood, that PLAYS mad
pranks IN yonr cheeks-oyer your thoughts,
that hover continually about one spot-oyer
your memories that awake to music only
one stcing-over yourself hcnceforth forever
m IN hn haII ,1,,t, l. |
nature than your own--unless your Lore
Comes upon you thus, ike strong man
armed, do not believe in it. If you in cold
blood give mp your name, Your indeDend
ence, your individuality for consideration,
what ever that consideration be, you will be
a wife only i'll name Prcsty blessing can
not anctity unholy contract If you have
parted with your birthright, what matter
whether it was for a mess of pottaee or I
stalled OK?
know. therefore, Of no reason why wo.
man should marry, except because she can {
not help it--because the spirit of life which
dweileth in the most secrrt chambers of tie
soul, all trembling, speak these words =
Behold God more powerful than -
II your love raises and exaults you, if 1t I
helps you ON your way, If it brings you near
r. to God, II it strengthens you to brave en-
stimulates YOU to heroic action,
Ind m kes all greatness possible if, in one
word, it possesses itsel. to YOU, and sweeps {
you up and out from the Infinite, rs a wave | I
bears seward the strong swimmer powerless {
you are safe.
1T anything less than this satisfies you. If 9
'ou content yourself with II feeble sickly sen !
iment, that willis in the sun and breaks IN !
he storm, your soul will suffer An interior =
nature may waken feelings enough to blind !
'cu little while. The cares and pleasures {
II busy life may Irvine their rank growth Z
Q closely as to hide from you for season {
he real barenness of the soil beneath. BUT
rom the one. twenty, forty wears that lie be- =
ore you, shall be born day CA which YOU Q
Will awake to know that YOU cannot give Q
without receiving back full measure, life for I
lie. And when your dream is dreamed out, |
ou will exclaim more Utterly than the old 4
ame Of the ballad: b
Yesterday | was tue lady Of Linn, :. :
nd l,.k Ii. IL.