Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-12-22
Gle snteIIigeateE.
RemarkI Tor 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 Vain2 If SO, why, in wisdom's
name, aud in mercS's, is there not provided
a Jack for every Gill. as we'll as Gill for
every Jack2 Many of the very best women
that ever were made, the truest, the wisest.
the warmest hearted, and even some of the
handsomest are alone in life, and must go
minated, if not quite uuIoved, to their
graves. l am unmarried myself and am
of course one of the aforementioned sort
of women. Mr. Right never had the sense
or the opportunity to ask me to enter the
bonds of matrimooy. That's reason enough
for me for staying out; though it is not
enough for many women. Those that are
convinced that tits better to commit sui
eide than to remain unmarried, snap at
Mr. Anybody, Right or Wrong, and fasten
the chains about Themselves, often to dis
cover that they are not always hoWery nor
silken.
Now, If getting married is womln's only
chance of tolerable happiness, those women
are more wise than l. Ii stagnation ofhope
and heart, if ceaseless pining over vain
loEirg is the certain lot of the maiden, get
married, | say, no matter to whom; take a
man who has one or two wives already, if
there is no other one to be bad. I'D go to
Salt Lake before I'd be given over TO such
81 tate. hate stagnation, / abbor loving
without requital. 1t is giving too much
for nothing.
But it is wicked to take the husband of
another; and it is wicked aud foolish to go
-,
Mr. Rights in the world for all good wo
men; so what is to be done2
Ia there really no way in which single
women, even though they do love unfOr-
tuuately, may be as satisfied and happy as
their married sisters2 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 aud mother, ever in
tended her TO spend her days in pain and
tears aud loneliness, mourning in vain for
the sight of. a face and thessound of a
voice that are better 10 her than those of
an angel.
know a way, right way, a way which
whatever man might say of it, is the
path of peace and plenty for a woman 1
) hall not tell what 1t is, for 1 might get
stoned, but the spinster may walk in it
whenever she eau discover it,-nobOdy
shall hinder, and bye and bye she willfiud
that her lot is after all, as satisfying and
comfortable a one az any in the world.
If she miss some pleasures, she will also
he spared many pains. If she be not fond |
led she will not be scolded, aud if nobody |
takes care OF her and gives her presents,
nobody NEEDLES With or lords it over her.
AhI believe me, siugle sisters, it is far
better to be sorry you have not husband
than to be sorry you hare one; and let me
ell you n secret-you won't believe it,
iare say, nevertheless it is true, if we could
out receive it; the best love in this world
,r in the next is friendship. 1t is hard
aying2 Ponder it. What is a father,
mother, a brother, sister, lover or
husband, that is not ones friend2 Only
rial and torment; and many, many such
are in the world. The true friend is the
foundation OF all. And she whose friends
whose friend is true need ask nothing
more. Every other relation passes with
line; that OF friendship, the love founded
IN that rock, endures without selishness; |
without Jealousy. forever.