Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1862-03-21
THE BEa1Er1Ea OF EsrRANaxarHrs.

No stream flows so smoothly but that sore-
where on its surface ripple appears and 10
married life but has here aud there moments
Of disagreement. Two hAIAan beings who
have not yet become perfect, cannot be per-
s4 petualIy together without sometimes thinking
differently, and willing in opposition to one an
other. know that there are here and there
q husband and wife who are conscious of no
such opposilions, who can look over possibly
.F'e years Of uninterrupted communings and undivi-
ded purposes, and who might easily suppose
that it is because they eYermofe are the same
in thought and purpose. But, take il, it is
rather that, impelled by mutual affectiOn and
keen-sighted wisdom, they have uneoncious-
ly learned to allow nothing for moment to
stand between their hearts. To accomplish
this, husband aud wife must guard Ggaiast
he beginning Of etraHgemenfS. The lasting
RlieuatiOns the separations, the divorces, do
not spring at once out of some great violation
OfcoHjugal duty, but are the perfected fruit of
little arrangements. A word or even look
sometimes, like small break in dyke, be-
comes vast creyasse through which pours
Hood Of unhappnesS. Nay, it may be posi-
tive nothing, only neglect which may be the
fouDdation-stone Of untold misery. 1t is no
ticed and felt, but pride forbids any expana-
tion or any questioning, Each notices the
point of asking what is in the way. Mean
while the peaceful consciousness of mutual
agreement is broken up, and each is unhappy
and may add each conscious of wrong IN
this state Of mind. new OftenOe is easily Civ
en-, and more easily taken, and the breach is
made wider and wider. The process may 60 on
ill wife or husband, perhaps both, begin to seek
in the society of others, what they have lost
IN their own and at last, embarked on a troub-
m led ard rapid stream, in some dark hour they
are hurried into crime and are lost to each
other forever.
"a something, light as air-a look
A word u,kiad wrongly taken
Oh love, that tempcsts shook,
23ng Abreath, touch like this has shaken,
And ruder Winds will rush in
To spread the breach that words begin;
And eyes forget the geate ray
They wore in courtships smiling day.
ei--4- And voices bose the that
A tenderness round all they said
Till fast declining, orc by
The swcctaesscs of love are gone,
Aud hearts, 50 lately mingled, seen
Like broken cOu'Is-or like the
That smiling left the brow
As though its waters ne'er coua sever,
Yet it reached the pain below,
Breaks into floods and parts forevef'
may speak to some who understand me
fully, and have known too many days of mis-
cry, not to appreciate what say, If you are
CONSCIOUS, ana as soon as you are CONSCIOUS, lhat
there is anything of alienation or eStrapge-
ment, loose not an hour before you see a re-
union of yourhearts. If conscience tells you
that you have been in the wrong do not be too
proud TO acknowledge it; fyou are sure that
you have been unkindy uujustly treated,
do not stand on your dignity sense Of jus
tice, but be the first to seek reconciliation
Let the magnanimity of love move you. DO
not wait till your husband or your wife ap-
prolches you, but do you hasten to do loves
work, You will find perhaps another heart
reaching out after yours in the dark and it
will not be long before you both are walking
side by side, and hand in hand.-Rey. w AK
MAN.