Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-11-03
LOVES YOUNG DREAM.
a Young Married Lady's Letter TO
Her Aunt.


The following choice bit Of sarcasm,
from the Metropolitan Record, which pur-
ports to have been written by young
wife in New York to her prim and spec
tacled maiden aunt in Boston, may, in
truth. have been indited by the latter
lady herself, with a view to expose the
absurd infatuation with which girl
brides shut themselves up in the delu-
sion that their husbands are embodi-
ments of perfection. If the old lady did
write the document, it was hardly fair
of her to 90 and palm it OFT on the inno-
cence OF inexperienced bridehood.
AN EXHAUSTED HUSBAND.
My DEAR AUNT:-Although you told
me when invited you to my wedding,
! that / was too young to marry, and not
| capable OF choosing a mate properly and
with due consideration, know that you
! may now feel that | was much wiser
than YOU thought. In selecting dear
! Orlando have gained a most affection
ate and attentive husband, and one who
/ has neither a fault nor a vice. 1eav-
ems! What must girl suffer who finds
herself united to a dissipated person,
neglectful of her, and disposed To seek
the society OF unworthy persons, who
drink. and smoke, and do all sorts OF
dreadful things!
Thank Heaven, Orlando is perfection
To-day is my eighteenth birthday,
and we have been married year. We
keep house now, and can make pretty
GOOD pie, only the undercrust will be
damp. However, | think it must be
the oven. Once | put peppermint in
the pudding sauce instead of lemon fla
yoring; but then Orlando was trying to
kiss me right before the girl, who didn't
much like either Of us going into the
kitchen at all.
: The flowers are coming up beautifully
, in the back garden. We sowed great
many seed, but hardly expected s.
} many plants Among the most numer
Gus is one variety with large leaf, tha
: scratches ones fingers, and don't smell
| nice. | wonder what it is. Orlando
: frightens me by talking about weeds
/ but seeds ALWAYS come up, don't they
4 Dear Orlando! | come back to hin
again-so excellent, temperate am,
; clear. Tell the girls to marry as sool
i as they can, if they can finda husband
like mine.
:! | have but one trial-business take
II him so much away from me. y lawye
n must attend TO business, You know; an
sometimes they carry ON thc cases II
e, two at night. Often and often he ha
IS examined witnesses until past lively
10 and come home perfectly exhausted
lt And the nasty things will smoke, s
that his coat quite smells OF it, And {
at il makes him as i'll as it does me, | hay
ne to air it and sprinkle cologne on IL
ne lining before he dare put it on again.
had a terrible fright the other nigl
ut dreadful Orlando told me that bus
ness-I think he said il was a case OF Ii
nd or death-would detain him late So
ID, sat up as l usually did, with book, al
did not worry until about one o'cloc
bu After that was little anxious, / co
rn fess, and caught cold in my he
- peeping through the upstairs blind
ed for, dear aunt, it was not until TIN
lbt o'clock that heard a acab driving up {
he street, and saw ii stop at our do,
All then thought should faint, for | v
ief, sure some dreadful accident had h;
ing pened to Orlando. N
nly ran down to open the door, and J
,py Smith, a friend Of Orlando's who is N
lad | confess, very much to my taste 81
lily a red-faced, noisy man, was support
my dear boy up the steps.
ace -" Oh, what has happened9' criet