The Portland daily press., 1865-06-16
The Evening Before Marriage.


OF all persons in the world she means thereby
4 i do not doubt it, dear Louise replied her
aunt, see only that you continue to be happy
together
sOh, who can doubt that we shall continue
SO. / know myself, have faults, indeed, but
my love for him Will correct them. And SO
long as we love each other we cannot be un-
happy. Our love will never grow DID,
'Alasp sighed her aunt, thou dost speak
like maiden of nineteen, on the day before
her marriage, in the intoxication of wishes
fulfilled, of fair hopes and happy omens. Dear
child, remember this-euen the heart IN time
grotUs old. Days will come when the magic
of the scene shall fade. Aud when this en-
chantment has fed, then it first becomes evi
dent whether we are truly worthy of love-
When custom has made familiar the charms
that are most attractive, when youthful fresh
ness has died away, and with the brightness
| OF domestic life, more and more shadows have
mingled, then, Louise, and not till then, can
the wife say of the husband, He is worthy Of
love-; then first the husband say of his wfA,
she blooms in imperishable beauty Buttru--
| ly on the day before marriage, such express
sions sound laughable to me-,
Il understand yon, dear aunt. You would
say that our mutual virtues can in earlier
years, give us worth for each other. But is
| nothe to whom am to belong---ior of myself
L can boast nothing but the observation-disclosures
he not the noblest, worthiest of all the young
men in the city? Bloom not in his soul every
virtue that tends to make life happy p
my child, replied her aunt, 1 grant it. Vir-
tues bloom in you as well as in him. 1 can
say thus to thee without fattery. But, dear
heart, they bloom only, and are not yet ripen-s
ed meath the suns rays and the shower. No
blossoms deceive the expectations mora than
| these. We can never tell in what soil they
have taken root. Who knows the concealed
depths of the hearth aaa
.Ah, dear aunt, you really frightea me-
so much the better, Louise. Such fear is
right; such fear is as it should be on the even
ming before marriage. ! love the tenderly,
and will therefore declare all my thoughts to
thee on this subject without Disguise am
not as yet an old aunt. At seven aud twenty
years one llooksferward into life with pleasure
1.-The world still presents a bright side to us.
| have an excellent husband. l am happy
Therefore have the right to speak thus to
thee, to call thy attention to secret which
perhaps thou dost not yet know, one which
is not oftenspoken of TO young and pretty
maiden; one, indeed, which does not greatly
occupy the thoughts of young man, and
still is of the utmost Importance In every
household; secret from which alone springs
lasting love and unalterable happiness
Louise seized the hand OF her aunt in. both
| OF hers. Dear Aunt yonknO believe you
!; ~ mean s.s lnae nap
f;as III - ~ ~ 9ual-
no ~ to ouy on.y oy sn1se VT
er. These are the best dowry which we can
possess; these never become old
As il happens, LOUISE The virtues also,
like the beauties Of the body, can grow old,
and become repulsve and hateful with age'
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sAh. dearest. If / might, never become old /,
Vert thon ALWAYS fresh ana beautitmI az To-
day. still Inv husbands ewes wonId bv cnstom
| of Years become Indifferent to these adg anta-
| ges Custom is the greatest enchantress in
| Che world. and in the house of one of the
most benevolent farriers., She renders that
which is most beautiful. as well as the uqliest,
familiar. Tue wife is young and becomes old !:
/ "A i, cnstom whicb bindarg tbo bnshand frani'
aerceivng the change On the contrarv
She remain voung while he greq old If NIGH
| bring conseonences. and randar tha man in
wears Jealous II is hettar % -kind Providanca
bas orddarad a Tmaoina that thou best oyrou1n
| IN he an old womon1 and inv 'hnshand waro a
bloomlpgs vouth. how wonldst thou : then
feel p rrgrauk
Louise rubbed her chin. and replied. II can :
not tei I'll aa5t
Her amt contintled - sRut T v,;1l calis4hv -
attention Ia secret which ~ y = - - -
sThat is it' interrunted I,ouise. hastily. .,ho,
is it which so much iol3g to hear, e11yp,3s '"
Her aunt id:-sListen 70 me- attentjvelv
WHAT NOW tell thea have nroved s- r. ons
sists of two parts., The frit mart Of tba
means To render 4 MARRIAGE hapng Of - ;tsa1S .a9
nreven,s every possibility of dissanso nd
would even at last make the snder anI' S.ha S
Ia tae host of friends with eacb oiifr rrho NJ
second mart Is the hest and snrest method Of
nreservino feIninine attractons., =
sAhp Exclaimed I,ouise.
sThe formar half means then in the srst
solitary bonr after the cereuiony. take thv
bridegroom and demand q solemn vow az him
and give him one in retnrn. Promise one