Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-12-15

A young man has married Partisan
beauty. Before she was married, her
life was confined to this-seeing her
friends, paying visits to five or six grave
people, behaving herself properly in a
drawing-room, playing upon the piano,
&c. She continues this life, and would
think il strange to have to change it..
He did not know her. when courted
my wife each visit was an inspection !;
cousins, male and female, uncles, aunts
passed me i'm review. Nothing but GER
emony, no intimate conversations. OF
our future projects no chance for a
word. One must be gallant; | had to
follow my wife's wishes, and that is
why my furniture is in such bad taste.
The void is made, and now all CONVEX
sation flags between them. She is wait
ing for visit from friend before she
makes up her mind whether she shall
put green stitch instead of yellow
stitch in her tapestry. Thersupon he
takes advantage of the diversion, seiZes
his hat and runs off. Impossible to in
terest her in his preoccupations, his
thoughts, the difficulties which he must
surmount, and which are too special
for her understanding. Sometimes he
lowers them to the level of her intelli-
gence but they make noimpressiOn upon
her. Her intelligence and education
afford no hook on which to hang them.
She listens to their recital as a part of
ordinary conversation and thinks no
more of it. Tney disagree on the very
ground work of life-about religion and
society. He said out loud-rather i'm
prudently, too-that many man has
become a priest to avoid being soldier,
that before fifty woman has no ideas
than those she learned from others, &c.
She contradicted him-no Difference or
submission, even in matters of intel
lect. He tries to instruct her, but finds
n resistance in the soil, which is hard
because uncultivated. In fact she has
been brought up without ideas or solid
reading, just as all young girls, with
their little manual of facts as dry as
pebbles. and the catechism of perseye-
rance laid over it as stucco and var
nish. All the intellectual formation
stone of France, all the national bed
above which grow the specialties and
superiorities of Paris, are the same as
in the Middle Ages. The little book of
the Name library gives the tone to
French education. Their two lives
remain divergent and he feels it. They
will always remain so, and he feels
that also. He will not initiate her. He
cannot make of her the second in his
life, and is resigned TO it. The even
ings already seem to him very long and
void. How occupy and amnse woman
forever? She sits at the piano and
plays passably well, it is all one-a gold
finch In a cage. You cannot forever be
telling it to sing and putting a bucket
in its claw. He fortunately sees that
she has an aptitude which is developing
itself-the talent of housekeeping. She
had never known what louis was.
She learns and practices economy. No
other outlet for her-that is the only
one proportIoned to her education and
intelligence. Could one have believed
it of her, with that pretty face so ex-
pressive in its saucy and its original
grace? In this way at least she will be
useful and will feel herself useful. 1t
is good household, and both of them
belong to that middle bourgeoise where
good households are to be fonnd in
greatest number"