Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1864-12-29
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Remarks for Single women.
BY AUGUSTA MOORE.

Is the chief end of woman to get mar
ried? Does the Lord consider that if one
be not loved or if one be loved too late, she
is made in vain? If so, why, in wisdom's
name, and in mercy's is there not provided
Jack for every Gill, as we'll as n Gill for
every Jack? Many of the very best women
that ever were made, the truest, the wisest,
the warmest hearted, even some of the
handsomest are alone in life, and must go
minated, if not quite unloved. to their
graves. l am unmarried myself, and am
of course enc of the abeve-named sort of
women. Mr.. Right never had the sense or
the opportunity to ask me to enter the bonds
Of matrimony That's reason enough for
me for staying out; though tits not enough
for many women. Those that are convinced
that 'ts better to commit suicide than to
remain unmarried, snap at Mr.. Anybody,
Right or Wrong and fasten the chains
about themselves, often to discover that
they are not always howery nor silken.
Now, if getting married is woman's only
chance of tolerablc happiness, those women
are more wise thanI If stagnation of hope
and heart, if ceaseless pining over vain
loving is the certain lot of the maiden, get
married. say, no matter to whom take
man who has one or two wives already, if
tucTC IS nO OtUtT OUt U be lIu. Il u 20 u
Salt Lake before Id be given over to such
without requital. 1t is giving too much for
nethiug.
But it is wicked to take the husband of
another; and it is wicked and foolish to go
to Salt Lake; and there are not enough
Mr.. Rights in the world for all good women;
so what is to be done?
Is there really no way in which single wo-
men, even though they do love unfortunate
ly, may he az satisfied and happy as their
married sisters? l think there is. > do
not believe that the God that made the
heart of the maiden, Just as much as he made
that of the wife and mother, ever intended
her to spend her days in pain aud tears and
loneliness, mourning in vain for the sight
of face and the sound of voice that are
better to her than those of an angel.
know a way, right way way which
whatever 4 man might say of it, is the path
of peace and plenty for woman [ shall
not tell what it is for | might get stoned,
but the spinster may walk in it whenever
she can discover it.--nebody shall hinder,
and bye aud bye she will find that her lot is
after all, as satisfying aud comfortable a one
as any in the world.
If she miss some pleasures, she will also
De spared many pains. Ii she be not fond
led she will not be scolded, and if nobody
takes care of her and gives her resents,
nobody NEEDLES with or lords it over her.
All believe me, single sisters, it is far
better to be sorry you have not a husband
than to be sorry you hare one; and let me
tell you secret-you won't believe it, |
dare say, nevertheless it is true, if we could
but receive it; the best love in this world
or in the next is friendship. 1t is hard
saying? Ponder it. What is father, a
mother, brother, sister, lover or hus,
band, that is not ones friend? Only atrial
and torment; and many. many such are
in the world. The true friend is the foun-
dstion of all. Aud she whose friends
whose friend is true need ask nothing more.
Every other relation passeswith time that
Of friendship, the love founded on that rock,
endures without se6shness without jeal-
ousy. forever.