The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-07-09
Many a wink she wunk
And many think she thunk,
All, miserie

You will walk home engaged to be mar
ricd. Engaged torsooth! for trouble or
pleasure, joy or shame, happiness or tribu-
lation, comfort or wretchedness, life or
death! The engaged pair-these billing
and cooling turtle-doves-known nothing of
each other beyond what society has taught
them; but Thisbe will run the risk be-
cause she must not be an "old maid," and
wishes, besides, to make her Pyramus
happy, or because she cannot resist the en-
treaties of the dear fellow, or because she
wishes to have her fun, and this is capi-
tai way of passing the leisure time; and
Pyramus. cares not q straw but to crafty
his sclf.pride, to tickle his vanity, and "do
the correct thing" 1t is seldom that such
a Pyramus and such Thisbe are found
together, but many o true-f Hearted girl has
met such Pyramus, and many an honest,
undoubting man has met with such a
Thisbc. Thoughts Of matrimony seldom
trouble the minds Of the newly engaged,
for in these halcyon days to be engaged is
the first step to being nothing. For one
engagement that is sacredly and religious
ly kept, hundred are wantonly broken
for every impassioned word that is said, a
Nor is the poor, frail woman to be always
blamed when these suddenly made en-.
gagements come to as sudden termina.
ton. During the courting period the
lover is in his holiday garb, all his man.
ners and words are vanished and glovcd
and it is not until he feels secure Of his
position that the rough points of his weak
character gradually peep out. Until the
engagement is made there is but little op,
portunity of knowing the man as he is, and
when the lady finds that her idol has q
brazen face and wooden head, the sooner
he is tumbled over the better for her and
him. Most women are deservedly loved
the more the better they are known, bu
few men can bear the test of intimate anG
familiar acquaintance. All their vanity
and Stiffness come to light, the mask i.
taken off, and the seeming angel become:
a weak and erring man. Some women, In
the magnitude Of their love, are but the
more fondly attracted by the very faults o.
those who profess to love them but suct
uncomfortable and Improbable virtue a:
this is but rarely found in these degenerate
days.
Let the man and woman be found wor.
thy of trust and confidence, and greater
difficulty generally remains. We all have
large ideas! Pyramus must have his
riding horse and his club, his wines and
luscious meats, and Thisbe must have hel
elegantly furnished house, her polite ser.
wants, and her trunks, without number
filed with all the elaborate nonsense o
female attire, before the pair can venture
to make start in life. The yfanc6 cannot
provide all this at present, but, "Micaw.
Der" like, he waits for something to turn
up, and hopes Tiny dear" that, in the course
of two or three years, he may be in posi-.
ton to marry. He must either wait OF
| live with pa and ma, casting the while ad.
miring glances upon les 6eaur yeur de Ia
cassetfe de SG bien-aimte; looking with hi.
ewes at his sweetheart, and thinking, in hi:
heart, of the strong-box Of respectable
papa But pa and ma do not see II, and
the Young couple have TO wait. They dc
wait, get tired Of each other, and the en-.
Rapement 10 broken of. Some engage.
ments last week, some few as long as
year, and the reason that young ladies
generally object 80 strenuously to an en-
gagement being published, is that they
have no faith in their continuance, and DC
| not wish to compromise themselves By
being pointed out ~ the young lazy wne
has already bssn engaged at !esH nan
dozen timss. al gi3Aa