The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1861-01-10
Women and Marriage.

have speculated great deal upon
matrimony. I haveseen young and beau
tiful women, the pride of the gay circles,
married-as 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,
cheerfully and without fear. 1t is natural
70 be sanguine for the young, and at such
times I am carried away by similar feel
ings. love to get, unobserved, into q
corner and watch the bride in her white
attire, and with her smiling face and soft
eyes moving before me in the pride of
her life, weave a waking dream Of her
future happiness, and persuade myself
that it will be true.
Think how they will set upon the lux
uriant sofa as the twilight falls, and build
gay hopes, and murmur in low tones the
now unforbidden tenderness, and how
thrilling the allowed kisses and beautiful
endearments of welded life will make even
their parting joyous, and how gladly they
will come back from the crowd and the
empty mirth, and of the gay, to each 9TH
er's quiet company. 1 picture to myself
that young creature, who bushes even
now at his hesitating caresses, listing eag-
erly for his footsteps as the night steals
on, and wishing that he would come; and
when he enters at last, and with an affec-
tion as undying as his pulse, folds her to
his bosom, I can feel the very tide that
goes flowing through his, heart, and gaze
with him on her graceful form as she
moves about him for the kind offices of
affection, soothing all his unquiet cares
and making him forget even himself in
her young and unshadowed beauty.
I go forward for years and see her luxi-
rious hair put soberly away from her
brow, and her girlish graces ripening into
dignity land brightlovliness chastened into
affection. Her husband looks on her with
o proud eye, and shows her the same fer
vent love and delicate attentions that first
won her; and fair children have grown
up about them, and they go on full of
honor and untroubled years, and are re-
membered when they die. say I love
to dream thus when I go to give the young
bride Joy. It is the natural tendency and
feeling touched by lovellness that fears
nothing for ITSELF and ifeverI yield todarl5-
er feeling it is because the light of the
picture is changed. I am not fond Of
dwelling upon such changes, and [ will
not minutely now. allude to it only be-
cause 1 trust that my simple page will be
read by some Of the young and beautiful
beings who move daily across my path;
and T would whisper to them as they
glide by joyously and confidently the Sc
cret of an unclouded future.
The picture I have drawn above is not
peculiar 1t is colored, like the fancies of
the bride; and many an hour will she sit,
with her rich jewels lying loose in her fin
gers, 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 novelty of mutu-
al reliance and attention. There comes
soon, however, time when personal top
les become bare and wearisome land slight
attentions will not alone keep up the So
e;al excitement There are intervals of
silence and detected symptoms Of weari-
ness, and the husband first, in his man.
hood, breaks in upon the hours they were