Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1872-02-17
CONNUBIALITIES.

Thy glowing lip was pressed to mine in vail
| seek the flllness Of thy love again
No reason dc | ask that may know
Why ooldly thus thou meets my kiss; 90
From thy dear side, and leave thee free L
bless
One who may surer win thy fair caress.
will not wait to check the richer how
Thou could'st not lavish on my hungry heart
Nor will stay the jealous watch to keep
Ny love would prompt, if lingering where
thou art.
Give now thy best to one who dares to reap
Such golden felds-foreYer more part
My life from thine. that !, alone, may Weepl
Mock turtle-Kissing before compa-
Y, and fighting afterwi Els.
The custom of throwing a slipper
after the bride is supposed to have
been the origin of shoo-hy.
A woman of twenty is said to be as
mature in her ideas and manners as a
man of twenty-five or thirty.
A twenty thousand dollar residence
was Senator Chandler's wedding gift
to his daughter, lately married to Rep
resentative Hale, of Maine.
"Your Dress" said husband to his
fashionable wife" willnever please the
men," 81 don't dress to please men,"
was the reply, "but to worry other
women"
"What substitute can there be for
the endearments of ones sister?' ex-
exclaimed. Mary. "The endearments
of some other fellows sister," re-
piled John.
A young woman only needs one lover
very much in earnest to bring around
her several others equally devoted, as
men are sometimes like sheep, and all
follow where one leads.
1t was a common superstition in
olden times that turquoise would
heal enmity between man and wife,
and that an emerald always grew pale
when danger threatened its wearer.
An Indiana bride vowed she'd blow
her brains out il her husband went to
a spelling school, where he would be
subject to the spells OF pretty girls.
He went, and she died according to the
programme.
Several ladies Of Troy, married and
single, are talking about getting up a
society to oppose the organization Of
any more "lodges" OF any kind in that
city. They claim there are too many
attractions at the lodge every night in
the week to suit them.
The charms Of West Pointers, what
ever their color, are subversive Of the
feeble barriers which guard the sus-
ceptible female heart. 1t is said that
the negro Smith is engaged to ten
white girls. One Of them movesin the
highest circles of the Hub, while an
other belongs to one Of the most aris-
tocratic families in Philadelphia.
1t was beauteOus mayden,
Most Picturesque to see,
Her architecture was brunette,
Darke as ye sloe WAS she;
But never having Seen sloe,
Well take that back, for We can't knoWo
how darke ye sloe may be.
A man broke chair over his wife's
head week or two ago. When he got
to jail and the clergyman undertook to
talk with him, he displayed good
deal of penitence. He said he was
very sorry that he had permitted his
anger to obtain the mastery OF him,
and to suffer him to do such an act,
because it was a good chair, one OF
those good, old-fashioned Windsor
chairs, which was an heirloom in his
family, and he knew he could never
replace it.
In Poughkeepsie a Young couple re-
Gently got married. The bridegroom
gave a male friend the dominie's fee
in an envelope. Male friend put the
envelope in the inside breast pocket OF
his coat along with another envelope.
When the time cameto pay, he handed
tho dominic the envelope and depart
ed. Dominic opened his envelope and
found an invitation to Phoenix Hose
ball. Male friend had made mis-
take, which was soon after rectifed.
The dominic respectfully declined the
invitation to the ball.
"My wife made my fortune" said
Mr.. D., a gentleman Of great pos
sessions, the other evening, "by her
thrift, prudence and cheerfulness when
was just beginning"
"And mine, poor soul! she is dead, "
said Mr.. R, a widower, "lost my
fortune by useless extravaganza and
repining when 1 was doing well. "
What q world does this open to the
influence of our sex over the future
prosperity of their families. Let the
wife know her influence and try to use
it wisely.
A Chicago lover went to visit his
girl one evening recently, but for some
reason, probably that the fire had ma
terially. changed his condition in life,
she received and treated him coolly.
He remained standing in the parlor q
few moments, but finally made move
ment toward the door, remarking that
"he guessed he'd 60" "Oh" said
she, starting from beautiful condi-
ton Of semi-unconsciousness, won't
YOU take a chair?" "WeIl, I don't
care if 1 do" was his reply, and he
took the chair, thanking her kindly,
and carried it home. He says it is a
good chair, made Of walnut, with stuff
ing and green cover-just what he
wanted. But he is down on that girl,
and declares he wouldn't marry her
not If her father owned O brewery,