Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-01-29
Woman and Marriage.

have speculated great deal on matrimony
have seen young and beautiful women, the
pride of gay circles, married, as the world says
we'll Some have moved into their costly houses
and their friends have all come and looked at
their furniture and their splendid home for hap
piness, and gone away and committed them to
their sunny hopes cheerfully and without fear.
1t is natural to be sanguine for them, as the
young are sometimes carried away with similar
feelings. | loveto get, unobseryed, into corner
and watch the bride in her white attire, and
with her smiling face and her soft eyes meeting
me in the pride of life, weave walking dream
Of future happiness, and persuade myself that
it will all be true. think how they sit upon
the luxurious sofa as the twilight falls, and
build gay hopes and murmur in low tones the
not now forbidden tenderness; and how thrill
ingly the allowed kiss and beautiful endearments
of welded life will make even their parting
joyous, and how gladly come back from the
crowded and empty mirth of the gay to each
others quiet company. | picture to myself
that young creature who bushes even now at
his hesitating caress listening eagerly to his
footsteps as the night steals on, wishing he
would come, and when he enters at last, and
with an affection as undying as his pulse, folds
her to his bosom. [ can feel the tide that goes
flowing through the heart, and gaze with him
ON the graceful from as she moves about for the
kind offices Of affection, soothing all his unquiet
cares, and making him forget even himself in
her young and unshadowed beauty [ go for
ward for years and see her luxuriant hair put
soberly away from her brow and her girIish
graces resigned into dignity, and loveliness of
maternal affection. Her husband looks on with
proud eye, and shows the same fervent love
and delicate attentions which first won her and
her children are grown about them, and they
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are remembered when they die.-Irving.
LovE-Love, amid the other graces in this
world, is like cathedral tower, which begins
on the earth, and at first, is surrounded by the
other parts of the structure. But, at length,
rising above the buttressed wall, and arch, and
parapet, and pinice, it shoots spire like, many
a foot right into the air, so high that the huge
cross on its summit glows like spark in the
morning light, and shines like star in the
evening sky, when the rest of the pile is en-
veloped in darkness So love, here, is surround
ed by the other graces and divides the honors
with them, but they will have felt the weight
of night and darkness while it will shine lumi-
nous against the sky of eternity.
A GooD EDUCATION. Sigourney says
A good education is a fortune in itself | do
not mean tnaC III Will always secure WEALTH. Out
it brings something better than the gold that
perishes, for this may be suddenly lost. Fire
may consume it. The thief take it away. But
that knowledge which enriches the mind, which
moderates its desires, which teaches to make a
righteous use of the time and promote the hap
piness of others, is superior to the elements.
Fire, air, earth, and water have no power over
it. 1t can use them as servants. 1t walks with
us into the vale of years, and does not leave us
till we die