The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-11-23
A Poets Opinion of Women.

After all, says Wards life of Percival,
what . silly thing it is to regret a
woman! dear sensibility, oh, la those
signs, and tears, and glances, and
whispers, that cheek of roses, and
bosom of heaped up lilies, and eye of
diamond, and breath like the perfume
of Arabia, what nonsense and what
stark lies, too, it begets at the pure eff
fervescence of Il heavenly spirit, and
ends in-the straw! Why should young
ladies be so anxious to be marriedi]
Every one wants Il husband, and sets
her cap for him rs nicely as deeency
will allow, and sometimes more SO. We
call them, too,-angcls-but they are
too heavy to fly. A little dress and a
little lisping aud music and drawing,
perhaps blue stocking filled full of
title pages and technics. Is that unfair!
Although in my former letter l shot a
TRADE against women, / am no miscgy-
mist; on the contrary, | believe | have
allowed my imagination to centre too
fondly on them. l have tried to make
of them the sdnctRm sanctOrum OF human
nature, the angels that watch around MS
and now and then open to MS visions of
something better than earth can give
us. | recollect when was mere child
| was strangely electrified by little
black eye. After that, for years knew
absolutely nothing of them. l then
became the teacher of most amiable
young lady for two Years, and 1 have
only had Glimpses oftheir society since.
/ have seen them, and, like all distant
objects. they have seemed more bcauti-
full than the reality. The indistinctness
with they have appeared to me has left
ample room for my imagination to
work i'm. and | have thrown around
them the greenest oasis in the desert
we have TO travel over. But when
come nearer | find | am constantly
undeceivcd. | find the sheets of water
only fitting vapors. and the verdure
nothing hut bitter sena, (ride Bruce w
Brown, etc. go too far. Woman
have still much that is lovely. They
keen out of the most contaminated at
mosphere. They are left exposed to
excuses and Implicitly. They are obliged
to assume, ut least, higher decorumi
and there is ever an advantage in mere
assumption. We are apt to become in
reality what we pretend to be. They
have naturally greater dclicacy OF
constitution, greater nervous suscepti.
bility and tenderness of feeling. A.
they mingle less in the hustle of life
their sensibilities are less exposed to
be blunted, and their care of infancy
and childhood is a constant school OF
their affections. Hence they are not
as cold rs men.
With your permission, l will proceed
With thiS uSii'atc ouplSSt. ol. iOiiS
says, in his beautiful tale of La Chau.
miere Indienne, that the best thing
in the world is good wife. have
heard different opinions from married
IN EN-. Some are not disposed to under
take niatrimony. They indeed speak
of it rs homely sort of happiness com
pared with the bright visions Of You tn
but after all much better than single
blessedness. have heard others sneer
at it, and curse it. Either they or theil
wives We're in the wrong, believe; af.
ter all, st. Pierre was right, but the
wife must be good and the husband too
Now, to speak seriously. it is time fol
me too marry, if ever do. | am ap
| preaching the critical period when the
world can call me an "old bachelor
will make an effort to keep that title
from me. have never vet seriously SCI
about il, and really should make but
green work of it. Men have different
motives for marrying. Some marry 4
fortune: some housewife, some nurse
Others family interest, Others an i'm
aginary mistress. For my part, L viii
marry, woman whom can love sin,
cerely, il not enthusiastically, and ir
whom can nationally bespeak an in
tellectual companion. have been in.
fiuenced by certain feelings on this sub
ject which perhaps are not common
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