Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1866-07-06
MISCELLANY.
The Day After Marriage.

The departure of a son from beneath
the parental roof does not present any
spectacle of desolaton. Masculine life,
has from infancy, an individuality, an in
dependence, an exotism, so to say, which
is essentially wanting to feminine exist
ence.
When son abandons his parents to
create for himself separate interest, this
separation causes but little interruption in
their mutual relations. A man marries
and still maintains his friendships, his
habits, and his filial affections. Nothing
is changed in his life; it is only an addi-
tional tie. His departure is consequently
mere simple separation while the de-
parture of young girl to become the
wife in few hours, is real desertion-a
desertion with all its duties and feelings
still fresh about it. In word the son is
sapling which has always grown apart
from the trunk; while the daughter has,
on the contrary, formed an essential part
of it, and to detach her from her place is
to mutilate the tree itself.
You have surrounded her youth with
unspeakable tenderness-the exhaustless
tenderness of your parental and maternal
hearts and she, in return, has appeared
to pour forth upon you both an equally in
exhaustible gratitude; you loved her be-
yond all the world, and she seemed to
cling to you with a proportionable affec-
tion.
But one day, one ill-omencd day, man
arrives, invited and welcomed by your
selves; and this man, of your own choice
carries off to his domestic eyrie your gen.
tie dove, far from the soft nest which your
love had made for her, and to which hers
had clung.
On the morrow you look around you
you listen, you wait, you seek for some.
Thing which you cannot find. The cage is
empty: the tuneful linnet has flown; 81.
lence has succeeded to its melodous warb-
lings; it does not come as it did only or
the previous morning, huttering its per.
fumed wings about your pillow, and wax.
ing you by its soft caresses. Nothing Ie
mains but painful calm, painful void
painful silence.
The chamber of the absent darling of
fers only that disorder which it is SO mel
ancholy for a mother to contemplate; no
the joyous and impatient disorder of oc
cupation, but that of abandonment. Maid
enly garments scattered here and there
girlish fancies no longer priced; chair'
heaped with half-worn dresses; drawer:
left partially open, and ransacked to THEN
remotest corners; bed in which no one
has slept; crowd of charming trifes
which the young girl loved, but which the
young wife despises, and which are litter
ed over the ca pet like the feathers drop
ped by the linnet when the hawk made
the timid its prey.
Such is the depressing sight which wrings
tears from the mothers heart. Nor j:
this all. from this day she occupies only
the second place in the affections of hel
departed idol; and even that merely un
Ill The happiness OF maternity shall hav'
taught ner for whom she weeps TO assigr
TO her one still lower. This man, this
stranger, unknown a few months, it ma,
be but few weeks, previously, has as
sumed n right over those affections whicl
were almost entirely her own; few hour
fleeting, and it may even be OF assumes
tenderness, have in great degree sui
feed to efface twenty long years of watch
fulness, of care, and OF self abnegation
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