The semi-weekly mountain Democrat., 1860-11-14
Women and Marriage.
BY wAsnIxsrox IaYIxo.

tiful women, the pride Of the gay circles,
married-ac the world gOes-well! Some
have moved into costly houses, and their
friends have all come and looked at their
fine furniture and splendid arrangements
for happiness, and they have gone away
and committed them to their sunny hopes,
chcerfiIliy and without fear. It is natu.
raj to he sanguine for the young. and at
such times am carried away by similar
feelings. | love to get unObscrvcd into a
corner and watch the bride IN her white
attire, and with her smiling face and soft
eyes moving before me in the pride Of
life, weave waking dream Of her future
happiness, and persuade myself that it
will he true.
Ithink how they will sit upon the luxu-
rant sofa as the twilight falls, ard build
gay hopes, and murnur in low tones the
now unfprbidden tenderness, and how
thrilling the allowed kisses aud beautiful
cndcarnc;ts Of welded life will make
even their parting joyous, and how gladly
they will come back from the crowd and
the empty inirth, and Of the gay, to each
others quiet company. picture to my
self that young creature, who bushes
even now at his hesi;ating carcsses, listen
ing eagerly for his footsteps as the night
steals on and wishing that he would come;
and when he. enters at last, and, with an
affection a. nndJ ing az his pulse, hc folds
her to his bosom, can feel the very tide
thot goes flowing through his heart, and
gaze with him on her graceful form MS
she moves about him for the kind offices
Of affection, soothing all his unquet cares,
and make him forget even himself in her
young aud unsbadowed beauty.
go forward for years and see her lux
uri0uS hair put s06crly away from her
brow, and her eirlish graces ripening into
dignity, and bright lovciincss chastencd
into affection. Her husband looks on her
with n proud eye, and shows her the
same fervcDt love and delicate attentions
that first won her and fair children have
grown up about them, and they 60 on
full Of honor and untroubled years, and
are remembered when they die! say
love to dream thus when go to give the
young bride joy. 1t is the natural ten
dency and feeling touched by loveliness
That flars nothing for itself and if L ever
yield to darker feelings it is because the
light Of the picture is changed. am not
fond of dwelling upon such changes, and
| will not minutcly now. l allude to il
only because trust that my simple page
viii be Rad by some Of the young and
beautiful beings who move daily across
my path and would whisper to them
as they glide byjoyOusly and confidently,
the secret OF an unclouded future.
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peculiar. 1t is colored like the fancics of
the bride; and many, oh many an hour
will she sit, with her rich jewels laying
loose in her fingers, and dream such
dreams as these. She believes them, too
and she goes on for while undeceived.
The evenings are not too long when they
talk Of plans Of happiness, and the quiet
meal is still pleasant with delightful nov
city Of mutual reliance and attention.
There comes soon, however, time when
personal topics become bare and weari-
some, and slight attentions will not alone
keep up the social excitement. There
are intervals Of silence and detected symp-
toms Of weariness, and the husband first,
in his manhood, breaks in upon the hours
they were to spend together. I cannot
follow it circumstantially. There comes
long hours If restlcssncss, and terrible
misgivingS Oi each others worth and af-
fcction, until 10y and by they can conceal
their unrasncss no longer. and 60 out sep
aratcly to seek relief, and lean upon a
hollow world for support, which one who
was their lover and friend could not give
them!
Heed this, yc who are winning, by
your innocent beauty, the affections Of
hish-minded and thinking beings! Re-
nrInbcr that he will give up the brother
Of his heart, with whom he has had ever
fellowship of mind the society of his
contemporary runners in the race Of fame.
who have held with him a stern compan.
ionship, and frequently in lis passionate
love he will break away from tic arena Of
his burning ambition, to come and listen
to the "vOicc Of the charrner." 1t will
bewi!dcr him at first, but it will not long
and then think You that an idle bandish
ment will claim the mind that has been
used for years TO an equal communion
Think you that he will give up for weak
dalliance the animating themes of men
and the search into the mysteries Of knowl-
edge? Oh, no, ladyi believe me-no
Trust not your influence to such light
fetterS! Credit not the old fashioned al.
surdity that wonan's is secondary lot
-ninisteiing to the necessities of her
lord and master. 1t is a higher destiny
| would award you. Ifyour Immortality
is as complete and your gift of mind is as
capable AS ours, would charge you to
water the undying bud, aud give yourself
healthy culture, and open its beauty to
the sun, and then you may hope that
when your life is bound with another,
you may go on equally and with fellow
ship that shall pervadc every earthly in
tercst.
RATS AS PoRrEKs-TmEIR ExcEEDING
INGENrITY.-A maid.scrvant, in an East
ern city, hearing one night noise on tho
stairs, saw two rats, one larger than the
other, busily engaged in carrying eggs
down stairs. The big rat stood on his
hind legs, with his forepaws and head
resting on the step above; the lady rat
rolled the egg gently toward her spouse ;
clasping it gently. but firmly. he lifted it
carefully OH the step upon which he stood,
holding it there until she came and took
charge Of it, when he descended step
lower, till the clever pair reached the low.
ermost floor with their prize uninjured.
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