The new Northwest. [volume] (Portland, Or.) 1871-1887, 1872-05-10
Matrimonial.

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written by a young wife in New York
to her prim and spectacled maiden aunt
in Boston, will be read with curious in.
terest by the more enlightened reader:
NJ Dea1. dURE-Although You told
me when / invited you TO my wedding,
that I was too young to marry, and not
capable of choosing mate properly,
and with due consideration, write that
you may now feel that / was wiser than
you thought. In selecting dear Orlando
| have gained a most affeetionate and
attentive husband, and one who has
neither q fault nor 4 vice. Heavens!
what must girl suffer, who finds her
self united to q dissipated person, neg
leetful of her, and disposed to seek the
society of unworthy persons, who drink,
smoke, and do all sorts of dreadful
things!
Thank Heaven, Orlando is perfection.
To-day is my eighteenth birthday,
and we have been married a year. We
Keep house now, and can make pretty
good pie, only the under crust will be
damp. However, think it must be the
oven. Once i put peppermint in the
pudding sauce instead of lemon flavor
ing; 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 so many
plants. Among the most numerous is
one variety with a very large leaf, that
scratches ones fingers, and don't smell
nice. | wonder what it is. Orlando
! frightens me by talking about weeds;
but weeds always come up, don't they {?
Dear OrlandOl / come back to him
again-sO excellent, temperate, and
true. Tell all the girls to marry as soon
as they can, if they can find husband
like mine.
L have but one trial-business takes
him so much away from me. a lawyer
must attend to business, you know, and
sometimes they carry on the cases until
at night. Often and often he has ex-
amined witnesses until half-past II and
come home perfectly exhausted. And
the nasty things will smoke so that his
dear coat quite smells of il. And it
makes him as ill as it does me. | have
TO air II, and sprinkle the lining with
cologue water before he dares to put it
on again.
had a terrible fright the other night
dreadful. Orlando had told me that
business think he said it was a case
of life and death-wouldde detain him late.
SO | sat up as usual, with book, and
did not worry until / o'clock. After
that / was a little anxious, / confess,
and casght cold in my head peeping
through the upstairs window blinds;
for dear aunt, it was not until O'clock
that | heard a cab driving up the streets
and saw il stop at our door; then |
thought | should faint, for | was sure
some dreadful accident had happened to
Orlando.
ran down to open the door; a friend
OF Orlando's, who is not, confess, very
much TO my taste-such n red-faced,
noisy man-was just supporting my dear
boy up the steps.
ooh, what has happened ~ cried /.
Don't be frightened, Mrs. White ?r
said Mr.. Smith, "Nothing at all; only
White is a little exhausted. Applica-
ton to business will exhaust man,
and L thought I'd bring him home"
"All right, Bell, said Orlando, Smith
tells the truth-Pm exhausted"
And, dearest aunt, he was so much so,
that he spoke quite thick, and couldn't
stand up without tOttering. Smith was
kind enough to help him upstairs; and
he lay upon the bed so prostrated that !
thought he was going TO die Then |
remembered the French brandy YOU
gave me in case Of sickness. l ran to
get il out.
"Have 4 little brandy and water,
dear?r | said
''The very thing. Smith is exhausted,
too. Give some To smith, said he.
And so / reproached myself for not
having thought Of it before Smith was
gone. But | gave glass to Orlando,
and under providence, | think il saved
his life; for, OH, how bad he was!
"Bell," said he, quite faltering in his
speech, "the room is going round so
fast, that / can't catch your eve.
And besides there's two of you, and
don't know which is which,"
1 knew these were dreadful symp-
toms.
"Take drink, dear,n said I, 'and I'll
try to wake Mary, and send for the doe
mo" said he, 'Tn be all right in
the morning. I'm all right now
Here's your health. You're a brick.
~ And over he fell fast asleep.
Oh, why do you think so much of
money making? Is not health better
than anything else.
OF course, as he had lain down his hat,
/ took that of first And / managed to
divest him of his coat. But when it
came to his bOOts-dearest aunt, did you
ever take off a gentleman's boots? prob
ably not, as you are a single lady-what
a task? How do they ever get them
on? | pulled and pulled, and shook,
and wrangled and gave it up. But it
would not do to leave them on all night
so went at IL again, and at last one
came Off so suddenly, and over / went
on the floor, and into his hat, which |
had put there for minute. ! could
have cried. And the other came OIL
in the same way, just as hard and
inst as sudden at last Then put a soft
blanket on Orlando, and sat in my sew
ing chair all night. Oh, how heavily
he breathedl And / had, as YOU may
fancy, the most dreadful fears. He
MIGHT have killed himself bv his
over application TO business, for all
that | Know. The perfect ones go first,
il is said.
Oh, how differently should have felt
had ANYTHING happened to my beloved
Orlando. He has not had so eXhaustino
a day since and think he sees the foIly
of oyerwork; though if courts will keen
open so late, what can poor lawyers do?
/ think il very ineOnsiderate of the
iudpe. | wonder whether he has a wife
the mean old thing!
Coffee is highly recommended as
neutralizer of foul Odors, and can be
used to advantage where other disinfeet-
ants would be inadmissible. In cases
whore RATS or mice die in spaces between