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

BY MRS. WILLIAM. ,;sitr,
In the early days of girlhood what delight
full thing it ,cmed to us to be married. The
days of cov vftship were so pleasant; Ne were
made to believe that we were angels, that all
We said aud all VIC did was charming. There
were verses, written to our cyes-'sweetest
eyes ever SEEN" and sonne.s that went into
exstacics about our nose. Delicate boauets
greeted us of an evening, and sugar plums
were showered upon us. IF we looked sick,
or sad, or sleepy, we were asked hundred
times, in the tendcrest tones, what allied us
and carcsses and fond attentions were re-
doubled. We were so petted, so cared for SO
absolutely worshippcd, that we felt 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 80 complete. our
presents SO many and so beautiful. Our white
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 OIL his strong arm, we walked
up the long aisle of the church, and standing
before the sacred altar, took the oath that
made us wife-married to man.
At first We were in state Of delightful ex.
citement. We were hurried from party to
party from the opera to ball Our mornings
were passed in receiving visitors and eating
wedding cake. We had nothing to do: our
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 ours went very
merrily. Then a 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
but the first of succession of shocks that ii
was our ill-fortune TO receive Man, that de-
ceitful creature, dropped the mask--with
which he hadNcovcred his irowning face, and
then we saw him rs ne really is. Not the
yielding slave of woman, but her stern dicta.
tor; not her abject lover but her lord and mas.
ter. All; misery of miseries when woman
II wife, is rudely awakened from her sweet
dreams, and finds herself not in golden
shackcs, 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, and she must take
the consequences did she not know Eve fear
that she did noD that her orange bridal bios
SONS, would turn into wreath of weeping
willow ? Man is by nature tyrant: why did
she put herself in his power? He is by ma.
ture dcceitful; did she 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 dish at the
table that does not please him, arbitrary, self
willcd, sclfindugent. Ibis is his nature
You don't expect, dear young ladies, to gather
grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles do
you or to find the angelic in the demoniac
Better think well before consent to enter
the prison of matrnony, lock the door on
yourself, and hand the key over to your hus-
band. Matrimony looks pleasant in the dis.
tancc; it seems like a golden-paved city.
Enter it, and you find that it was all a painted
deceit-a show of glad glories, and nothing
more. ucart-aches, heart t-breaks, tears, sighs
groans, sacrifices without number, and sorrows
without end and this it is to be married to a
mau.-Daringtou Somherner.
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