Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1871-03-11
A RsF Words to NeRIy.yaFPled Young
People.

"a n will admit that they need any
adv e in { 10 honeymoon fewer still
Will take IL. Most q young person.
thin :, "W3ll, it is hard if we may net
be J. " to ourselves at such q season.
Ant yet, lerhaps, il We took the el.
per h1ce Of the many on this subjec,
the. would admit that the honeymoon
has been the time of all others when
the have been Tie least able to hell
the rselves. Is it too mrch to say
tina during those two months, the
hal iness or the misery Of those two
yo 6 lives is very nearly settled;
w ] perhaps, that is too much to say
fol Frors and misconceptions may be
liy down, and habits may be forme
or rOken after the honeymoon in Il G
col Sc of years. But still much
Oft 3 decided, we will not say ~ tlO
fr' fen months, but even the fir
,kY days. Little things are decided
in title ways, and neither understand
III ] ! the little rift within the lover
llu that has begun to show even o
i Iirst day. Annabel is eighteen
0u she has been brought up in a bo'
'tlt knows nothing Of the world,
la5 nut as ignorant and prejudiced al
pIitty little creature as you wi
Al mabel dislikes smoking, no be
callse the smell Of tobacco make he
| Ill, but because her mamma taught ht
th' / smoking was a bad habit. Ralp
wi o has lived rather a free life, but
reformed, loves Annabel dearly, an
is ON his marriage trip, and longs t,
4 cigar as they speed hour after hoUl
toward Edinburgh. Annabel frown'
It0r the first time. The next day tn
me scene recurs, but this time Ralp.
i little impatient, but he still yielt
V ith kiss and in excellent taste. Bu,
when the train stops for twenty min
rtcs, he gets out alone. l watch him
can sec something has gone wrong.
ile is thinking, "Ah, horrid bore not
| 20 he ale to have a smoke. Never
klew how fond / was of smoking,
| If Joye, l will smOkew Patience,
p itienCe, on both sides, but especially
oa the mans side, for he is the strong
vessel aid knows life. At the bottom
Of her heart his young wife wants to
please him, but che cannot bear him
out Ofher sight-he must account fOr
every movement. His ways are in-
sOnprehensible. Why does he want
10 60 out for ten minutes after dinner
fcr a stroll? Why does he prefer
speL ding an hour or two down stairs
with an old friend at night, to gong
up into the drawing-roonl? Why
, does he want to see the papers at the
. club, instead of going out, after hard
day in the city, for little afternoon
shopping? Man is a mystery to many
young girl for the first few months
utter marriage. She has not learned
+ that mans interests are and must be
various. How should she suppose
t that a husband had any other desires
than to make money and dance attend.
: ance upon his wife; She has never
cared tor anything but love and bon
nets. She cannot understand that
dress and even matrimony are only
r. episodcs in mans life, although they
cDnpo.9 the sum total of many W.
mans Newly-married women ar
DO doubt, very trying sometimes q,
ther husbands; but il is the fatl
more OF their social training and tn
want Of education thOn anything els
den should remember how much a
girl has to learn, and how much alas
most men have to uniearn, when they
first begin married lifl We venture
to say thatifall newly-married coup es
were to make a contract no. to quer.
rel for tx months, they would seld ia
, have any serious quarrels in after 8.
- Cds5ePS Magazine.