The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1869-06-03

making just the sweetcs! Iittlc noise in
lhe world, the lenjerest llitIs call 70
ifaHcS,o her whereabouts, and to show
that size ID lonely and foslsb, She sits
close, waiting to be found, and does
not romY aud dash about like tho hawk
sisIerhood; neither does sbo pretend
that she is upwiIlnglo be found, still
less deny that sof! warm nest. we'll
linodund snusly sheltered, Is boltor than
u lonely bmnch. stretching out comfort.
less and bare into The bleak, wide world.
She, loo, is almost surs 10 get what
she waols with tie adyon age Of being
voluntarily chosen anI not unwilliugly
submitled to This is The kind Of wo
man who is s'ways nillly but thorough
ly happy ia her married. life; unless 10.
deed her bus baud should be brute,
which Heaven iorclend, She lives 10
peace aud bland conteutmenL while the
IOles permit, and when he dies she bur-
les him decoaIy and amenis him de-
corou5ly, but she thinks il folly to spend
her life in weeping By the side, Of bis
cold grave, when her tears can do no
good TO either of athem Rather she
thinks it a prootof love for him, md
the evidence of how lrUo was her hap,
piucss. lhtt she should elect to eivo him
successor. Her blessed experience 10
The past has made her trustfuI in the
future. and because she has found one
man fiithfpl'Sho thinks shat all are ABB
diels. Asa rule, tits type Of woman
does fnl men pleasant, and by her own
nature inSures domestic happiness, She
is always tenderly and never passionate,
ly 10 love. even with tho husband she
had loved the best, she gives in TO no
excessos to the right or The left, her
temperament is OF that sereuc, moonlight
kind which docs not fatigue Others nor
wear out It's pos ,essot, without ambition
or the power TO AiOg herself into any
absorbing occupation, she lives only to
pIes,c'ani be pleased at home aud If she
10 not wife, weoriog her light letters
lovingly, and proud that she is lettered,
she is nothing, Al some women are
born mothers and others ara born nuns,
so is the Wadman woman born wfo,
and shines in 10 other character or ca
p'ciiy. But in this she excels, and
Knowing this she sticks to her role, how
ircqucn.lysosyGr the intsrlOculor msy be
changed.
Even n hard man is moved ut the
sight Of a pretty young widow 10 The
furcral black Of her first gtief, sitting
apart with paLient smile, and eyes cast
meekly DOWN, as one not of tho world,
though IN it. Her loss is too recent to
admit OF any thought of reparnliou. and |
yet what man does not think Of that
time Of repamlion, and If she is more
than usually charming in person, and
well dowereiin purse, what man does
not think OF himself as the best r.pairel
she could take? Then; as time goes on
and she gliies gracefully into tho era of
mili3alcd grief. how beautiful is her
whole manner, how tasteful her attire
Tho most exquisite coIors Of the ram
pant kind look sarish besides her dainty
'in', and the untompered mirh Of har.
Ply girls is coarse beside her faint sub |
duGd admission of moral sunshine Grays
MS tender as dOvo's breast, regal -pur-
pies which have glow behind their
gloom, stately silks of S0mbre black,
softly vailed bySloui3 ofgauzy white
HlIspcok of passing time, ahdlhe graiu.
al blooming Of the Spring after the sad
ness OF the Winter, all symbolize The
flowers which are growing ever on the
sodlhat coverS.the departed, oil hint at
the melting funeral gloom into a posi-
bic bridal. She steals into a quiet back |
seat at the cpem, she walks through a
qaadrille, she sees no harm 10 tcte OF
flower show, ii properly companioned
Winter does no, laat forever, and al
lilo long mourning is wonrisome pros
pect, SO she goes through her degrees
ia accurate order, and comes out at the
eul radiant. For when the faint shad.
ows cast by the era of mtigated grief
fade away, she is the widow par encei-
lcacc The blooming widow, young rich,
gay and (rce-with the world on her
side, her fortune 10 Dor hand, and the
ball at her foot.