The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1872-02-01
How to .etain Lore After Marriage.

Foreigners often inquire what be
I comes of all the fascinating girls 70
: which America is so renowned. Th'
I question is easily answered. They
! die in early wed lck, which zoo fre
: quentlY proves the grave cflove. The
, cOnnubial state, as mismanaged by US
2 generates in asphyxia, in which gal
: lantry, and tenderness soon breathe
Z their last.
= A few years ago there were two love
ly sisters hereabOuts. Their beauty
was the theme of general praise, and
their beauty was mental and spiritual
no less than physical. Their whole
being had the rythm and rhyme that
belonged to the madrigal of fine flesh
and blood. They we're, from the in
most soul to the eXternalest line of
their gracefulness, such creatures as
nature makes in her happiest moods,
as If to compensate for her numerous
: blunders.
They were married, and both, as il
was considered, fortunately. Grisel-
da's husband was a prosperous mer-
chant, instinctively generous and
sympathetic, knowing little of the
world, and less about women. Statira
was mated with aworthy and wealthy
4 gentleman, who had travelled far and
seen much; was cynical in speech,
because tender in feeling; called skep-
tical because he had such ample
faith. Their first year was as if all
the months had been May and June
and then, as usually happens, there
came a change. Griselda ceased to
appear in public with her liege lord,
and soon the most devoted of lovers
seemed the most Indifferent Of hus-
bands. He cultivated new tastes and
found new pleasures. Billiards and
whist became passions, and he is
regular hdbitue of the club to which
in his bachelor days he was almost
unknown. During the third year Of
their wedlock she no longer looked
I like herself. Her freshness and round
ness were gone, and those tyrants of
feminine natures, the nerves, ruled
her numerically. If NapOleon's rude
speech in De Stael is correct, Griselda
/ is likely to be one of the greatest of
women. Everybody deplored her de-
cline but him who had the most rea-
son to deplore it. To-day, hardly
any one could be persuaded that Girls
elda could ever have laid the least
claim to beauty, or that elegance and
brilliancy had ever been remotely ac-
quainted with her. Barely thirty,
she seemed five and forty, and all the
brightness of her life is dimmed for
ever.
Statira's first year was like her sis
ter's; but when her husband showed
signs of WEAKNESS she resolved to
charm his Weariness away.
'YOu would be a well bred truant,"
she said, Gas you have been before,
but I shall not let you. You have
thought it well to fiirt with other wo-
men, but with your wife your atten-
tions must be serious. You have VOW
ed to love me and 1 shall make you
keep your word by always appearing
lovely. I am young fair and accom- !
plished, and what is more, intend to |
remain so. You have not exhausted |
me, and you shall not, for every day |
I shall unfold a new leaf of beauty, |
you cannot fail to be interested. I /
shall be true wife to you, but I shall /
be q charming woman also. When |
you come home shall read and play |
and talk to you, and it will be strange |
If your affections grow languid and |
your caress conventional. If you go /
out in the evening I shall go with you.
No more club or bachelor dinners if /
can wean you from them by such 1
means as are in my possession. My
culver has not begun to be emptied
yet of cupid's arrows, and the boy god
is, am sure, my firmest friend.
shall so show my love that you can
not help to love me in return; and
even when we have grown old, shall
expect from you the courtesies and
gallantries you have shoWered upon
me on our bridal morning."
Statira was true to her word She
continued lovely in every outward de-
tail no less than the inward spirit, and
she was fondly loved. Theyears have
passed since her wedding find her
DIV as in girlhood, and her husband
fall newly in love with her every ra-
diant morning and every blessed
night. She had made the name of
wife sacred to him who was wont
to Jest at marriage, and all the swal-
lows Of his fancy have flown home to
rest.
Statira has wrought a miracle by
the simplest means. She has kept
her husbands heart by the tender
sympathy to which strong and chival-
rous men are prone to submit.