The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1867-01-17
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Happiness Housekeeping


In the gulf Of perditiou will they
arrives. no remote day Who arrange
70 go 70 boatdiug as soon as married,
instead Of going to house keeping.--
4 A more uupr66tsblo mistalo cannot
i.poasibly beimhdoby the newly mar
ried tits moro miscellaneous iu win
ter than in osumag,, for ,iur warm
weather the young wife can Walk on
the street, or drive oh the park, or
visit among her friends, but in the
winter thet are cooped up }" IN one
foom, and spend hours al lho window
pane, gazing listIessIy out upon the
street Rffaid offthe Jcold, yet de-
Testing the eonauenisns while : great
part of the tims, the husband being
at his busincsa, the mind istha prey
lof lthopsapd disQpietudes: at ono
time she thinks her nieads arc slight.
ing her at another she becomes on
yious of others who seem to bo able
to dress more elegantly than herself,
and she begins to make uufavorab,s
Comparisons to herself and to her hus.
baud, as to their worldly condition,
and SHE Becomes moody and potulon.,
and complains, and the husband wakes
/
up to a now discovery, and 4, uu.
welcome as it is DewAihat his wife
is not hatby in herself not happy in
her social position, But suppose the
same person had begun life In tho old
fashioned ways had tAksn a. Bmall
house andbusied themselves hrst in ar.
ranging what parental afTcc hon had
bestowed, and then had set tAbout deoi.
ding wpat they could afford to takO
from their own store of money and
expepd il for the most necessary ar
ticleS Of furniture, and as to tho things
they wanted besides, things not indis.
peusiblc, but desirable, laying plans
together how, by economi1ing krst in
ono direction then in another, they
might lay aside enough to procure
what they had set their minds upon;
and when this was accomplished, then
to have another aim No mat can
doubt that ip going to housekeeping
in such manner, the prospect Of
happy, thrifty married life is uumis-
takably more promising tiau in7ths
! healthnnd heart destroying practice
Of living the 6rst twelve months Of
married life in hotels and boarding
houses. Very fcW Young wives are
safe in any public associations. Tho
papers abound 10 cases Of in6delity
to marital engagements by lately mar:
ricd girls being thrown into the soci-
ETY. of men of leisure, their husbands
being engaged in their business pur-
suits. Tho mere dandy, lOafsr or
gentleman Of fieisure has every oppor
tunity OF taste, and dress, aud address
above the mere man Of business, to
Fturn a wcman's heart from her hus-
baud by tlc'mere fact of causing hss
at first, without duplicating Himself,
TO- draw unfatctablo cotiparisonS
against her husband, Of to personsl
) tidiness. sOncI of the most splendid
/. weddings that had ever taken place
. tbeh, in New York resultcdin Sep
Q aration, and broken heart, and
r premature grave within few years.
o by the wife's continual tWittipg her
I husband, when they were walking on
0 Broadway, orlon the Avenue. about
his want Of taste in. tho selection Of
: his apparel /; Why. don't you bow
as Mr.. Blank does ?" His gloves
are in perfect taste, yours arc such as
countryman would select, -,
These things grew upon her, while
tthey alienated him, aud living IS they
did in the sncst hotel in the city,
with uncoUnted gold at their com
mand, and nothing to compel their
4 attention, away from tIiaing things,
their minds dwolt upon them. nagni.
6sd them, allowed thcmi TO ses moth
ing else. With the result ofa separa-
ton under circumstances that wers
iS6nisely worse than death, for then
the grave would have closed over ev-
cry sorrow, whereas life was spared.
with its long years Of fsgony.1x