Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1872-03-23


Friendship recruits its ranks as well
from the lame and halt as from the
fortunate and beautiful; has no. re
spect of persons; regards neither
rank nor are nor sex as a barrier;
condrscends to trlfles. Love without
it resembles the stalled OK and con
tention Herewith; while friendship
contains love as iCvariahle AZ the
greater contains the less. Ii this Is
not SO, how are We To account I'D, the
love matches, the eiOpeneilts, that
cool of into Indifference, and some
times aversion 9-installces Of which
lie about Us, suggestive apd nnSighfly,
like scori8 at the loot of a crater; the
blind passion had not worked itself
clear; the parties possessed M hrin
basis of matnresl esteem upn which
To bui d when the fancy ceased to 'n'
tickled with rurveSy a..d colOrS, Win
airs and graces. era
Perhaps tha best touch stone is
familiarity. For "A quarter 81 a centq-
y von may live next door to your
Dulcinea. and imagine you know her
thoroughly hut let her come to share
your roof, and you shall have reason
| to change many opinions which you
| thought as unalterable as the laws Oi
the Me,les and Persians. Is this the
persons whose ins and outs you con
trolledf She has weaknesses ut which
you never suspected Or, fathomed
You believed her generous, aud SIZE Il
selfish and demanding. In short, you
discover thousands faults that were
not mentioned in your estimate or liel
character; she is human, alter all
when you fondiy deewed b.r ha.1
divine. Yes, you We're assured thai
she would anticipate Your every wisa
forget her complication, II the con
coctlon OF your iavMite dishes le
auirpd it /; eschew trains, chignOns ant
iOlderOls at your dictatlOn; find 'el
happiness in eriect house keeping, u
studying the ancient and honorable
: ait of economy and above AL. Defiev'
| implicitly in Yourself and Your Judg
ments. and perhaps she does none o
these things, or, at best, SO laniei,
that they had AS well been left unfOne
omitting the spirit while keeping t.
the letter of the law.
In the meantime, she had an idea
Of you, to-, it may be-; OF evening
spent in divine seciusionS ut Your fee
needle in haul, whi.e you read th
poets and Sine gave ready sympathy
J instead Of which yen go home !at
, from the committee room, and sinok
morOsely over the ! defeat of you
candidate. Thus the stock of ios
with which yOu began house -keeiln;
dwindles, has not vitality enough Z
stand the wear and tear OF petty an
, nOyances, grows attenuate,l with tn
constant ai,srition OF daily if, un.es
friendship has been beforehand cm
verting every shOrt-,Oining into Il sttl
ping stone towards it's own fulfill
t inent unless, in brief, our lovers ar
= married his raithnl cleik, and wh9S
{, friendship was tried after this mai
ners by a countr, man, who, comIn
into his store one morning, aske'
r :. Where ia the Old woman | used t
t trade with her! Sick, eli !"
e 4 She is married. said ROd,rrk.
r married % cried the connir.yma'
1 aghast. .EE
r "Why. she had nary a tooth nor
{; hair to her head: she WAS a ye.''
u aud wrinkled as cram itseiI; VII.
I the M.arpcrow in my cornfieli was
t beauty to her! Heaven gave us! vii
: could have married her p
!, 81 did," said Rldrri,.k, stoutly.
i ~Yqu!" as if Roderick hal staphe
Z him. 8 Bnt tor all, she mad son
= that went to the marrow, she did !.
e see: if they don't nave one thing the
mostly has anothrr;" with w'le
}, tribute to feminine fascination he oil
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