Year: 1864

. WOMEN AND MARRIAGE.


have speculated great deal upon matri.
mony. l have seen young and beautiful wo.
men, the pride Of the gay circles, married.
as the world goes-well Some have moved
into costly houses, and their friends have all
come and looked at their fine furniture and
splendid arrangements for happiness and
they have gone away and committed them
| to their sunny hopes, cheerfully and without
fear II is natural to be sanguine for the
young, and at such times am carried away
by similar feelings. love to get, unobserv
ed, into corner and watch the bride in hcl
white attire, and with her smiling face and
soft eyes moving before me in the pride o
her life, weave a waking dream Of her future
happiness, and persuade myself that it will
be true.


think how they will set upon the luxuri
ant sofa as the twilight falls, and build gay
hopes, and murmur in low tones the now un
! forbidden tenderness, and how thrilling the
allowed kisses and beautiful cndearments o
welded life will make even their parting Joy
Gus, and how gladly they will come back
| from the crowd and tho empty mirth, and o.
the gay, to each others quiet company.
picture to myself that young creature, whu
bushes even now at his hesitating caresses
listing eagerly for his footsteps as the nigh
steals on, and wishing that he would come


and when he enters at last, and with an of
fection as undying as his pulse, folds her tc
his bosom, can feel the tide that goes flow
ing through his heart, and gaze with him or
her graceful form as she moves about hin
for the kind Offices Of affection, soothing al
his unquiet cares and making him forge
even himself in her young and unshadowet
beauty. "~EA r. ". .-
| | 60 forward for years and see her luxuri
GUS hair put soberly away from her brow
and her girlish graces ripening into dignity
and bright loneliness chastened into affection
Her husband looks on her with a proud eye
and shows the samo teryent love and delicat,
attentions that first won her; and fair chill
dren have grown up about them, and they
90 ON full of honor and untroublcd years
and are remembered when they die. say


love to dream thus when | 60 to give tn,
and feeling touched by loveliness that fear.
nothing for itself; and if ever yield to dark
er feeling it is because the light Of the pictur,
is changed. | am not fond Of dwelling upor
such changes, and will not minutely now


| alude TO ii only because trust that nv
simple page viii be read by some of tn,
young and beautiful beings who move dails
across my path; and would whisper t
them as they glide by joyously and conf
IDENTIFY the secret Of an unclouded future.


The picture have drawn above is not pc
cular. II is colored, like the fancies of The
bride and many, oh many an hour she
will sit, with her rich jewels lying loose in
her fingers, and dream such dreams as these
She believes them, too--and she goes on e,
while undecciyed. The evenings are no,
too long when they talk of plans of happ


ness, and the quie. meal is still pleasant, with
delightful novelty of mutual reliance and at
tentlon. There comes soon, however, a time
when personal topics become bare and weari


some, and slight attentions will not alone
keep up the social excitement There are
intervals Of silence and detected symptoms
Of weariness, and tho husband first, in his
manhood, breaks in upon the hours they
were to spend together. | cannot follow il
circumstantially. There come long hours o.
rcstIcssness, and terrible misgivings Of each
other S worth and affection, until, by and by
they can conceal their uneasiness no longer
and go out separately to seek relief, and lean
upon hollow world for support, which one,
who was their lover and friend, could no,
give them


Heed this, ye who are winning, by your
innocent beauty, the affections of high. mind
ed and thinking beings. Remember that he
will give up the brother Of his heart, with
whom he has had ever fellowship of mind
the society Of his cotemporary runners in
the race Of fame, who have held with him q
stern ompanionship, and frequently in his
passionate love he will break away from the
arena of his burning ambition, to come and
listen to the voice Of his charmer." Ii will
bewilder him at first, but it will not long
and then, think you, that an idle blandish-
ment will claim the mind that has beer used
for years to an equal communion? Think
you that he will give up for weak dalliance
the aniinating themes Of men and the search
into the mysteries Of knowledge? Oh, no,
lady believe memo! Trust not your in.
huence to such light letters! Credit not the
old fashioned absurdity that woman's is n
secondary lot ministering to the necessities
Of her lord and master. 1t is a higher dcsti-
ny | would award you. II your immortality
is as complete and your gift of mind is as
capable as ours, would charge you to water
the undying bud, and give yourself healthy
culture, and open its beauty to the sun, and
then you may hope that when your life is
bound with another, you may go on equally
and with fellowship that shall pcrvade ev.
cry earthly interest. Washington Iruiag.