Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1869-09-02
Matrimony.

immortality. we WISH ne mao
told US with what particular feel
ings the gods regard those who
are condemned to premature mar.
riage-who nosoonerentero ON their
teens, but inexorable fate impels
them to self-immolation on the
altar of hymen. Judging from
our own observations, we see rea-
son to fear that young ladies are
approaching an oriental precocity
in the matter Of wedlock. We
could point out, among our own
acquaintance, a score Of instances
lcf immature matrimony-slight
craft rashly launched upon the
perilous deep, only to be wrecked
amid the storms of welded strife,
to wear out in the monotonous
Gains of "wedded bliss" to
seek refuge in the inhospitable
ports of the law courtsii siii 2 e
To US there is something espe-
cially painful in witnessing an un-
p
suspecting girl of fifteen reoklessly
sporting on the imminent brink OF
wedlock, sacrificing herself to an
evanescent sentiment, and effer-
ing to the world the anomalous
spectacle of a child mother! Her
mind has been prepared fer the
event at the boarding.school. She
has a thorough conviction that
the chief end of woman's lie is
to get married, and, while Dshe
Should still be wearing short
dresses, she falls bitterly in love
with some simpletOn who "recip
rocates her affections" and selfish
lly robs her of those years which
should be the brightest and most
ioyousof her existence. In a few
4
weeks Charles discovers that'it is
a most unreasonable thing that he
should be expected TO give up the
young-bachelor pleasures to which
he has been accustomed, and that
it is a bore to be always accompa'
MED by a wife to place OF amuse-
ment. Julia begins to suspect
that she is neglected; and then
commences a series of F'snaps'
which every one of our married
readers will of course know how
to appreciate. Julia confides her
sorrows to her mother, who gener,
ally will be silly enough to inter
fere, and fan mere pettishness into
decided ill-temper, to subside only
when both parties are wearied Of
hostilities and each other, or when
the habit of constant intercourse
has soothed the asperities of by
meneal bondage, and a kind of
resignation takes the place of love.
Suppose they are poor, and that
/ Charles without means has to sup
port his wife. We have seen some
lamentable cases of this kind, and
have remarked that these preco-
cious couples are generally people
of very weak constitutions with
an equal tendency to scrofuIa and
susceptibility. To what a merry
life has their weakness condemned
them! A delicate girl of seven
teen, who has ruined her health
and prevented the natural devel'
opment of her bodily powers by
yielding to q sentimental whlm,
Iimmures herself in the small bed
room st a clearinghouse, passing
her best days in nursing a SICILY
little something, that looks very
much like a skinned rabbit in the
first stage Of human netempsycho
sis, but which, If it survives, will
be palmed upon the world as q
free and independent citizen. AL
day long she deyotes herself tc
soothing the pulling small "heir of
Immortality" when sheoughtto be
as free as air for the next five years,
laying the foundation Of a healthy
life, and gaining her natural
growth by proper exercise, care
less and untrammelled. The hus
banda sad looking, pale little
gentleman invariably return
) "home" from his employers shoI
at evening, wearied with the ia
) tigues Of the day, and of course