Smyrna times., 1883-01-17
WHOLE NO. l,436.
A Great Wedding.


poned until some time in March The
bridegroom has been down to North
Carolina, on visit to the prospective
bride, and it is believed the bride has
become somewhat nervous, and desires
that the committee be given further
time. MatrimOny is a matter that
should not be treated lightly by girl
under any circumstances, and especial
ly in case like this, where the BRIDE
groom is United States Senator,
whose live weight is between four and
five hundred pounds. OF course it
will be alleged that husband is a good
thing and everybody knows that one
cannot have too much of a good thing,
and yet it is wise for a trusting girl,
who is about to take step that is for
lifetime, unless one of them dies, to
look at the subject of matrimony in all
its bearings, to look upon the dark side
as well as the bright side. Very likely
when the bride is in North Carolina.
and the groom in Washington, the
thoughts of a marriage to so great
man, the next man to the presidency,
has its bright and beautiful features,
and any girl would look upon the
future with high hopes of happiness,
but no doubt when the great man
begins to approach, and she gets sight
r of a quarter section or SO of him, com
ing down the lane, and sees the work
men taking down the fences so he can
q get into the yard, and she sees her
2 prospective bridegroom break through
the boards of the veranda and have to
h be hoisted out with a derrick, and
f when she walks around him and comes
|. back to the starting point tired and
9 heartsick, her heart sinks within her as
she thinks that he is gaining in flesh
,, every day. The future no doubt loses
y its charms, and a hundred and twenty
" FIVE pound girl cannot help thinking
# that standing beside him in society she
,e would look like an infant. If the
re- Senator could be cut up into three or
four bridegroOms, of the regular size,
}" and married around among the differ
10 ent Southern States, he could do more
s towards overcoming the bitterness that
|. is said to exist between the North and
k South than he could ever do by sitting
of straddle of the fence in the Senate,
.ir with one foot on each side. When a
no. girl is married to an ordinary sized
ID man she takes a great many chances,
in and knows that she has got to care for
he him in sickness and in health, just as
I'm though he was baby. Any man is a
in nuisance when he is sick, and makes a
he woman fly around and feed him pills,
I'm powders and ginger tea, and prepare
do plasters and things real spry. The
Senator is liable to be sick as anybody,
and we have no doubt this girl has
mo- counted the cost, and realized what
,or stomach ache in his case means. She
III. must know, if she is an educated girl,
no and if up on mathematics, that mus
the tara plaster lot that stomach acne VIII
have to be rolled up on quilting frames,
and no one woman can put it on where
lin it will do the most good She has only
od to exercise her mental arithmetic and
multiply an ordinary sized mustard
plaster by a hundred, to get the result.
The poor girl has no doubt, during
this visit of the proposed bridegroom,
Up figured that a crick in the Senator's
raj, back means liniment by the gallon or
cen barrel, instead of by the bottle, as
in would be the case with an ordinary
lom lame back, and she can readily estimate
vel that the rubbing of a barrel of liniment
for into several acres of fat back is nC
childs play. Rheumatism with thu
the Senator will mean business, as the
lore territory that has got to be agitateC
and with ointment is very great. He il
rary liable to take cold, and in fact we re
lits. ! member to have read in the dispatche
Is of from the capital that the Senator wa
how suffering with cold. This girl mus
are realize that a cold is no ordinar,
toll. malady with him. The soaking of hi
ctim feet in mustard water would be n
has sinecure, certainly, and it is no cas-
lob for frail wife to carry a was
Tour boiler full of ginger tea up two pal
earn of stairs, and pour it into a suffering
like sneezing husband with a dipper.
,p to cold water compress on such che'
lntly will impoverish a dry goods store, an
lie of sneeze would jar the teeth out {
nder those who were too near when it e.
ssion ploded prematurely. We trust thu
ma the little lady has thought of the'
nous things without having her attentic
opin- called to them by this paper but if 81
ough has not, and we shall have been Il
MT as means of giving her realizing SEN
great of the troubles the future has in sto
as its for her, it is well. The Senator is oI
aiding of the best men in the world, alb
inc it honest, gallant, and just such man
It It'll any woman ought to have, if he W
i'd, as only about one third his present sil
i'd de- He might make a splendid husban
'..-. and it is possible he might never
> "r sick, and never cause his wife to get
letely in the night to look after the mnsta
have barrel, but the girl should think OF
Try possibilities, and be guarded. AS
! anj lover he may be all her fancy pair
'lesale him. We should think ne would
ederal splendid for sparkling, as a girl col
- ouddle up in his lap, and hide hers
nose nose I in his bosom, and romp around on
iggist, hurricane deck, and bite his neck, a
have a real good time, but when
ALtden' a Lt' tables are turned, and he begins
of it. hug, ana Dioe' we s-Ao1lu sninA
gfeld, would be liable TO break glri ali
This article is not to discourage
actory North Carolina girl, but to cause
uss'S'' to think of the disadvantages of a sn
-..a !. girl marrying such bonanza of fie
- ,os.,,,l;,,,auk her On the in