The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1869-03-20
Married to a HAN.
BY MRS. WILLIAM;

BY MRS. wILLiAM.5 -9s,is,iRa,
In the early days Of girlhood vhat 2 delight.
ful thing it seemed to us to be married. The
days of courtship were SO pleasant; we were
made TO believe that we were angels, that oil
we said and all We did was clarming. There
were verses, written TO our eyes-'sweefeat
eyes ever sesn," and sonnets that went into
exstacics about our nose.i Delicate boquats
greeted us of an evening, and sugar plun,s
were showcred upon US. IF we looked sick,
or sad, or sleepy, we were asked a hundred
times, in the tenderest tones what allied us
and caresses and fond attentions were re
doubled. We were so pettcd, SO cared for, so
absolutely worshippcd, that We fclt like very
queens in the purple robe of mans royal love.
Then the wedding was SO delightful there
was 80 much mirth and music light and
dancing. Our outfit was so complete, our
presents SO many and 80 beautiful. Oarwhite
satin dress was trimmed with the richest lace;
our pearl set-uncut pearls; so creamy looking
was gift FROM the groom. How radiantly
happy we looked, how supremcly happy we
felt, as leaning on his strong arm, we walked
up the long aisle of the church, and standing
before the sacred altar, took tho oath that
made us wife-married to q man.
At first we were in state Of delightful ex.
element. We were hurried from party to
party, from the opera to a ball Our mornings
were passed in receiving visitors and eating
wedding cake We had nothing to do ON
house was handsomely furnished, and the man
we had married loving and caressing. All
We thought, how delightful it is to married
married to man, and we actually pittied the
single females of our acquaintance.
At first this marriage bell of onrs went very
merrily. Then faint minor note was struck:
our husband, our adorer, spoke impatieutly
1t was the first time, and we forgave him
thinking, in the innocence Of our hearts, that
he would never do so again. But that was
bblt the first of succession Of shocks that il
was our III fortune 70 receive. Man, that de.
cei.ful creature, dropped tho mask--witl
which he had'covered his trowning face, and
then we saw him as he really is Not the
yielding slave of woman, but her stern dicta
tor; not her abject lover but her lord and nas
ter. All; misery of miseries when woman
n wife, is rudely awakened from her sweet
dreams, and finds herself, not in golden
! shacklcs, but in iron manaclcs. She may cry
but there Is none to help her; she may bea,
with her little hands upon the locked gate Of
her destiny, but it will not open for her, and
let out into the glad sunshine of liberty.
! She has married man, aud she must take
the consequences did she not know Eve feai
that she did noO that her orange bridal bios
SONS, would turn into wreath Of weeping
| willow 2 Man is by nature tyraut: why did
she put herself &c !s;s power? He is by ms
,ure deceitful; did size not know that he
would deceive her? She ought not to be as
tonished that she finds him selfish, cross, easily
put out OF temper, even over a dish at the
table that docs not please him, arbitrary, self
You don't expect, dear young ladies', to gather
grapes from thorns, or figs from thistIes dc
you; or to find the angelic in the demoniac
Better think we'll before consent to enter
the prison of matrinouy, lock the door on
yourself, aud hand the key over to your hus
band. Matrimony looks pleasant in the dis
tance; it seems like a golden-paved city
Enter it, and you find that it was all painted
deceit-a show of glad glories, and nothing
more. Hcart-aches, heart-breaks, tears, sighs
groans, sacrifices without number, and sorrows
without end and this it is to be married TO
man.-Dariin9ton Southerner. s !.
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