Year: 1873

! the wife OF good man. But the conditions
necessary for this superative degree Of happi-
ness are not always secured. We may compare
an unmarried woman's notion of welded life
to the remembrance of beautiful piece OF
muelc, which sometimes lngers in ones brain.
The air h,unts you; how sweetly it runs on in
the unruffled chambers OF the imagination -
You follow its windings there with the greatest
ease, yet If you try to play it from notes, you
find but small part OF it's beauty is clear aud
simple melody You discover that the harmony
is intricate, the discords many, ard though in
due time these may be resolved and overcome,
you find, nevertheless, that the whole piece is
difficult.


II is perhaps fortunate for many an "old
maid" that she has not had to make the same
sort OF discovery III the concord OF married
life. She might possibly find that her whole
hfe would be dull at eighty cents on the dol
lar" and especially 30, II she were compelled
to carry dead heart in living bosom. There
fore, maiden ladies. comfort yourselves with
these words.


! know OF nothing higher, deeper, or more
endurlDS than the free, full offering OF maid
ems heart. BE the idol OF her affection ever
80 unlovely, SO lowly in llfe so mocked at by
fortune, she clngs to him through evil as well
az good report, aud as fragments fail from the
crumbling alter OF their home she breathes the
breath of pure affection on the scattered
fragment, and whispers" as the Lord iv-
eth. nothing but death shall part thee and me. +"


What is the secret OF all this depth and
fervor OF devotionI L will tell you. The
electric fingers OF love has touched the citadel
OF her soul, and now the batteries Of the uni
verse thunder before it in vain! The love OF
woman possessing such heart Is priceless.
| Gold cannot purchase gem 30 precious titles
and honors confer no such serene happiness.
In our darkest moments, when gaunt poverty
menaces us with her skeleton fingers, such az
lection glcams around the soul with an angels
smile. Timecannot wear its brillIancy-distance
but strengthens Its power-bots and bars can
not limit It's pTogress-it follows the prisoner
into bis cell and lrradiates it's gloom, planting
the tree Of hope in the bosom or despondency
it sweetens the home morsel, and even in
sickness the potion administered by the hand
of affection loses half its bitterness.


O., 1t would seem that God, compassioning
wcmans first great fraity, had planted this
jewel in her bosom, whose heaven, like BRIGHT
ness. should cast into forcetfuness mans re-
membrance OF the fall, by building up in the
heart another Eden, the bright sun OF which
should shine on luminous agains; the sky of
eternity True love, like that We have just
attempted to describe, may be compared to the
Dove that went forth from the Ark-it Is re
turnless-the music OF Its wing will be heard
when the kneh for the object OF It's regard hath
died upon the air 1t is immortal


But, says one, il is an error to suppose that
because you love your wife during the honey
moon, YOU will be the happiest man in the
world during the rest of your life; and he
adds.-that matrimony is like glass OF soda.
very sparkling when first presented to the hps,
but palpably tasting OF acid before it is half
swallowed The author we have just quoted
must be the man who said. he wished it were
as fashionable TO trade wives as horses, he
would cheat some one badly before sun-down
For myself would prefer the dreary life of an
unsoaced old bachelor to a union such as
have just limited at. For fear / should do as
Mrs. Job desired her husband to do when he
was considerably lndisposed and good deal
discouraged. l think he must be the identical
" indlvidooal" who at another time said II
first saw my wife in a storm-took her to ball
in storm was betrothed to her IN storm
was married to her in a storm-lived with her
in storm all through life-but, thank heaven
said he, buried her IN pleasant weather A
pleasant, cheerful wife is as rainbow set In
the sky, when her husbands mind is tossed
and fretful wife is like one OF those who were
appointed to torture lost spirits.


''Of earthly good, the best Is good wife,


A bad-the bitterest curse OF human hfe"


The counterpart Of old maids" are " old
bachelors" They have been styled unproduct
i've COMMUNICATIONS with but one blade
bows without fddles-rregulsr substantaves
always in the singular number, and objective
case-unruly scholars, who when told to con-
jugdte always DECLINE


A bachelor editor once said, that he cared not
farthing about getting married until he at
tended an old bachelors funeral. God grant,
said he, that my last end may not be like his.


A lady who had been teaching summer
school IN a certain town, received some atten-
ton from bachelor lawyer OF that place. and
by his friends was joked about her. He replied,
he =" should look higher for wife" it came
to the lady's ears, and she meditated bit OF
revenge. An opportunity Soon offered. They
were at party together, and to redeem her
forfeit she was to make the bachelor's epitaph'
she gave the following -


Here lies a man who looked so high.


lie paased ali common damsels by.


And they who looked as high as he


Declared his BRIDE they would not be


So twixt them both he died bach.


And now has gone TO the old scratch"


What pitiful thing an old bachelor is. With
his cheerless smile. and his rueful phiz. On
bitter cold night when the fierce winds blow.
And the ground is cover'd all over with snow
When his fire is out, and in shiverng dread.
He slips meath the sheets of his lonely bed.
How he draws up his toes. all encased in
warm hose, and he bnries his nose, beneath the
bed clothes, that his nose and his toes. NAV