The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-02-26

To be sure, occasional exceptions
there are. Now and then girl marries
without changing her nature, or she
does not change her circumstances,
which amount to the sa ne thing, and
then We are reserved for Invitations and
70 through very formal interviews, With
the husband as affabIe as he can be with
a mental reservation against as. We
praise the baby extravagantly, and talk
business principal ly-for be It recorded
that the most downy human seraph fedou
love and romance up to the altar, drops
all that when she takes of the bridal
veil, and instead of poetry and flowers
and purling brooks she bankers after
cent per cent and corner lots, and has
an eye to the markets, like a sensible
person. If there Is any nonsense left
IN her, she reserves it all, angel that
she is, for the one dear partner Of her
joys and sOrrOws, and oOnfides it to him
in the honeyed moments of sequestra-
ton. If an unusually amiable young
wife rashly resolves to keep mp her old
ACQUAINTANCE, it is at the risk of do
nestle war Do you think, oh ye lovely
legion, that we cannot see Your sweet
contempt for us. emitted in little prim
politenesses, cOiied away in q matrOnly
reserve {? That you have confidential
exchange of sarcasm with him about us
when we are gone is certain. All men,
in the wOman's religion, are as nothing
to one man-especially with those
women who before immolation acted
upon the motto of having all at her
feet, but favoring none. / say at the
risk of domestic war. He Is suspicious
of us. We, in his overweight mind,
are the representative men of another
world and era we, curiously enough,
may have made VOWS to the very woman /;
we at least have admired her when she
was open to promiscuous admiration,
and he fears that we have Incompetent
sible claims or precedents, and he des-
pises us in his heart, though he rattles
on glibly enough till we were gone, and
| then he says Z" An old fame of yours,
| Agnes 2" Nonsense I" says Agnes.
" A conceited puppy no principle-no
| brains-vapid, !" etc. And Agnes agrees
with him.
We are no better off with our own fell
lows. The jovial baches of former
sprees flicker out and dwindle lamenta-
bly, into husbands. If they attain cot
tages and wine cellars, and their wives
are sweet and hospitable, we are slapped
on the back and reminded that thelstch-
string is out But the hospitable an
| BClS eye 10 aSAHA4COs tbn4 GA1llOb bILLE
in the hosts enthusiasm, as he declares
over the claret that many's the jolly
lark we've had together-eh? Many'l
the scrape we've hunted up In company
and who'd a Thought that would have
been caught this way before you, my
boy? By the way, what's become O
the Tullivers Fine girlsl Do you
reccoliect the dirtatiCn we had Will
them one summer at Ballston, eh ? TIT
old man was a bitter enemy of min.
then, and vowed to revenge mysel
upon him Cha ha y Carrie and
were going to Venice Cha ha . anC
here am The hospitable angel re
spends dutifully, with hospitable bu
somewhat forcible smile at each of tn
ha, has but when we are gone, AM
our old friend is asking her if his CUES
is not capital fellow, evidently proui
of him, as he had ought to be, sh
comes out in the role of propriety, AM
thinks our old friend had better DO
have anything to do with such fellow
now. What do they care for you {?
she asks, as though she had read selfish
: preston of our manly exterior. n
comes here to drink your wine, O
course 90 And this bit of devilisl
{ cruelty the hospitable angel drops int
the innocent soul of your old friend a
? carelessly as she drops his loaf suga
! into his tea.
It is perhaps well that we have on
> opportunities of revenge. Occasion
{ will present themselves when we cate
3 the dear departed out of their strong
: holds, away from their intrenchments
and then they suffer. They sometime
( escape into balls and pienics, and the
! ! we torture them. And now we fin
] back the old aroma of love and romano
: Toss of c6ffvailr5yt i" their = cfo1cce:. ' h
4 does not mingle the admirations la hi
n service to her that we do in ours {
. them, and we know so well that th
I dear creatures miss the homage NOR
: than aught else. She compares his dut
g full offices with our generous gallantry
= and what a contrast She tolls up til
e steep hill without body-guard of a
tendants and courtiers, and, woman {
f she is, she misses them. If she desire
n anything, we call her husband, and sh
Y is at liberty to think either that v
would not dare to interfere with, b
Y right of servitude, or that we did--nC
3 care to.
+ There are, CT course. occasional r
+ surrections. Here and there a "a
i comes back to us-in weeds, it is true
) but temporarily, and with adde
IS charms and-I assert it with all Il
n triumph that my theory demands-thC
, come back to the world with an evidel
4 zest. Still, one cannot help thinking
" would be much pleasanter if they d
# not go away at all-if, somehow
o other, married women could only
q Just a trihe girls, and sometimes stC
e down from their domestic thrones
! say kind word to us giddy revelle
; they have left behind. But they canno
n and the best we car do is to fill bur
- per of Mumm's royal rose, % and, wi
n heads uncovered, respectfully drink
n the many dear departed.