Year: 1872

The treasures Of the deep are not no precious


AS are the conceald comforts Of mAa


Locked up in woman's love. scent the air


OF blessings, when i come but near the house.


What a delicious breath marriage sends Forth.
The viole. beds no; sueetcr.


/ have often had occasion TO re
mark the fortitude with which women
sustain the most overwhelming re
verses of fortune Those disaster:
which break down the spirit of man
and PROSTATE him in the dust, seem tc
call forth all the energies Of the soft
er sex, and give such intrepidity and
elevation to their character, that al
times it approaches TO sublimity-
Nothing can be more touching than
to behold a soft and tender female,
who had been all weakness and de-
pendence, and alive to every trivial
roughness, while treading the pros
porous path Of life, suddenly rising in
mental force to be the comforter and
support Of her husband under misfor.
tune, and abiding, with unshrinking


irmness, the bittorest blast Of adver-
siiy


As the vine, which has long twin.
ed It's graceful foliage about the oak,
and been lifted by it into sunshine,
will, when the hardy plant is rifted
by the thunderbolt, cling round il
with its caressing tendri!s, and bind
up its shattered boughs so it is beau
tifully ordered by Providence, that
woman, who is the mere dependent
and ornament of man in his happier
hours, should be his stay and solaee
when smitten with sudden calamity /;
winding herself into the rugged re-
cesses Of his nature, tenderly sup
porting the dropping head, and bind
ing up the broken heart.


| was once congratulating a friend,
who had around him blooming fam
lily knit together in the strongest az
fection. II can wish you no better
lot said he with enthusiasm, than
TO have wife and children. If you
are prosperous, there they are to share
your prosperity ; if otherwise, there
they are to comfort you" And, in
deed. j have observed that a married
man falling INTO misfortune is more
apt to retrieve his situation in the
world than a single one partly be-
cause he is more stimulated to exer-
ton by the necessities of the help
less and beloved beings who depend
upon him for subsistence ; but chiefly
because his spirits are soothed and re-
lieved by domestic endearments, and
his self-respect kept alive by finding,
that though all abroad is darkness
and humiliation, yet there is still a
little world of love at home, Of which
be is the monarch. Whereas a single
man is apt to run TO waste and self
neglect; to fancy himself lonely and
and bis heart TO fall to
ruin like some deserted mansion, for
want Of an inhabitant.


These observations call to mind
little domestic story, Oh which 1 was
once witness. My intimate friend,
Leslie, had married beautiful and
accomplished girl, who had been
brought up in the midst of fashiona-
ble life. She had it is true. no for
tune, but that of nv friend was am
pie and be delighted in the antieipa-
ton of indulging her in every ele
CANT pursuit. administering to those
delicate tastes and fancies that spread
a kind Of witchery about the sex
Her life,' said he. shall be Ike a
fairy tale"


The very difference in their charac-
ters produced an harmonious combi-
nation be was of romantic serious
east she was all life and gladness-I
have often noticed the mute rapture
with which he would gaze upon her
IN company, of which her sprightly
powers made her the delight; and
row, in the midst Of applause, her