Telegraph and Texas Register (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 52, Ed. 1, Wednesday, December 14, 1842 Page: 1 of 4
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MARRIED TOO SOON; OR A LESSON FROM
- i.l LIFE.
1. BT MRS. EMMA C. EMBURY.
-"So L'icy js going to be married." said old aunt Rachel,
as she" sate Tn the warmest corner of the apartment, resting
from the-fatigues of a longjourney in a stage coach; 4,so
she is -going to be married already; well, I thought,
when I saw' her two years ago, that she would grow up
to be very prettv, but "I suppose she is very much alter-
ed." , "She is one-ofthe prettiest girls in thecitv, aunt;" said
Mrs. Morewood, with a slight touch of offended pride in
tier tone. ,
G-'Indpedi'T thought pprhapsyou had some good reason
fcrkurrymg her off. youri bands so soon;" said the old
lady; sarcastically, - .,
,"Oh no, Lucy has as good a chance forsghusbana as
any girl I know."
"Why then do you 'allow her to marry at anage when
she ought to.be at her studies?"
.- "You forget, aunt, that she is almost seventeen."
"1 don't forget any thing about it; did'nt I hold her in
' my arms wnen she was baptised? 1 know how old she
is as welfjasyou do, and I say that she is young enough
to be inns schooj-rogrn jet."
-uQh "butfim'es him1nm2"Sfncach-Jilnasbfoned
.notions' prevailed; nobody thinks now of keeping a girl
out of .society so long."
"The more's the pity," exclaimed aunt Rachel; '-if we
were to keep girlsand boys oiit ofsociely until they had ac-
quired a little more .good sense, I think society would be
the gainer. fc What kind ofa-wife can a girl of seventeen
make? What canshe know of her duties of her respon-
sibilities ?V .
"Lucy is not as giddy and thoughtless as most girls of
her age; she is already an excellent house-keeper; the
padding you praised so much at dinner was made by her,
andshe excels in all sorts of delicate pastry."
"All kinda-of delicate pastry!" exclaimed aunt Ra-
chellfin a tone of ineffable contempt.; "and she can work
. in roArotorlc -inrf mnlfp. stn r-hnslfr.t 55. and naint card-racks.
anddo all such useful things, I dare say! All kinds of
aeucaie pasirvi is mai yuui mc ui a guuu uuui.ajii.1,
Susan 2 I thought you had more sense. Has she fore-
thought to anticipate. the wants of a household? prudence
to regulate its expenditure? cheerfulm-ss to contend with
its many cares? patience to bear its petty annoyances?
knowlfcdge to meet its frequent emergencies?" Talk of
delicate pastry, forsooth 1"
,Mrs. Morewood was a little vexed at this sudden out-
break of feeling on the part of her aged relative, but re-
strained by habitual revprence, she only replied, "I thought
you considered a knowledge of cookery an indisp nsa
ble requisite in a good housekeeper."
"So I do," answered the old lady, quickly, "but it is
notthe only one which a woman should possess. Noth-
ing renders a hoqsekeeper so perfectly independent as a
thorough knowledge of her own duties. She may have
nil the advantages which can be afforded by fortune and
friends, but nothing is' so useful andfso importanVfToihing
places her in a position bf such entire freedom as the con-
sciousness that she is all-sufficient for her manifold du-
ties." 'It seems to me your idea of a good housekeeper is
vprtr cimilnr in mv notion of a eood servant."
"You are mistaken, Susan; the mistress Is the head,
the servant only the hands. I do not say a woman ought
always to do everything, but she should understand the
best mode in which things are to be done, and she should
be acquainted with them practically as well as theoreti-
cally, so that she can at aby time take her place at any
part of the machine of domestic gove'nment which may
.need ier attentionT If women were thus educated we
should" have much better servants "
"I don't see how that could be."
"Servants would never attempt the impositions they
sometimes practice, if thpy were not certain of impunity
from the ignorance of their mialress, nor would they ven-
tars upon insolence if they did not know that she is de-
pendent upon them for so much daily comfort that she
dares not punish their impertinence by immediate dismis-
sal." "You are right in that, aunt, as 1 know by experience.
It was only last week "that my cook threatened to leave
me the very day"before I expected a large dinne party,
and.1 watf obliged to raise her wages Tor the coming
month, in order to keep her ; since then she has lecome
more, troublesome than ever."
-"Exactly what you might expect. If you had dismis-
sed "her, "and shown her your entire independent, she
would probably have begged your pardon and requested
.leave to -remain" fi
"ButTda'red not take the risk of that at such a time."
"Yet if Lucy had been ,so excellent a houseketper as
you describe, and you had not quite forgotten your early
knowledge of such matters, you could have easily dispen-
sed with her."
aHere comes Lucy to answer for herself," said Mrs.
Morewood, and as she spoke a delicate and pretty c-eature
bounded into the room, and throwing aside her sonnet,
flung her arms around aunt Rachel's neck.
-(iAh Lucy, as warm-hearted and child-like o$ ever,"
"exclaimed the.old, lady, as she folded her in a wa(m em-
brace; -so5&u have not forgotten old friends in lew a?-
socwUons '
i BucybSeshcd asjeiie-pressed lier rosy iinto the Crink
led cheek of her aged relative and murmured, "Did you
4hink anything could make me forget you?" Then
sating herself at a tow stool at aunt Rachel's feet, the
joyous girl began a lonsr string of 'inquiries- respecting ev-
erything in the old lady's distant home. In the mean
time, Mrs. Morewood deliberately folded Lucy's shawl
which she had flung upon a chair, picked up her gloves
which had fallen on the floor, and, taking her bonnet
frdm the piano, where she had tossed it, left the room with
the various articles as quietly as if accustomed to act
as lady's maid to her giddy daughter. Aunt Rachel did
not fail to notice this trifling circumstance, and it gave her
an insight into one of Lucy's most striking characteris-
tics. But there was a'charm in the frank, joyous temper
ofthe beautiful girl, which disarmed all censure, and
made every one love her too well to think of her faults,
which were only the natural follies of youth.
Lucy Morewood had spent the last five years of her
life at bo'arding school; and it was during one of her
summer vacations, that, while on a visit to some friends in
a neighboring city, she had formed an acquaintance with
a young clergyman of fine talents, who had recently as-
sumed The charge of a small congregation in a pleasant
country villagp. Her extreme beauty and child-like sim-
plicity of character were highly attractive to the studious
andrirriaginative youth. She seemed to be an impersona-
jripnpi hjs fairest dreams, jindvhen she returned to her
parents sne was accompaniea Dy ner avowea nnu uevoieu
lover. He met with no opposition from Lucy's family,
for Mr. Morewood's income depended solely on his own
exertions, and he well knew that only by fortunate and
early marriages he could hope to provide for his six
daughters, who were rapidly growing up around him.
The unlooked for success of Lucy's first appearance in
soci'ty was gratifying in ail respects, and after proper and
prudent inquiry into the lover's character and prospects,
it was generally understood that in place of returning to
school Lucy was to become the wife ofthe reverend Ho-
race Waylip. Indeed, after having been introduced in
society and tasted the intoxicating draught of flattery, es-
pecially after having been surrounded by beaux and re
ceived a real, bona fide offer of marriage, it would have
been preposterous to expect that the young lady should
submit to be chided by a schoolmistress, or snubbed by a
pedagogue. A few weeks spent amid the gaieties of the
world had been sufficient to decide the future fate ofthe
inexperienced girl, and she who went forth from her child-
hood's home a timid, thoughtless, stlf-distrusting girl, re-
turned in little more than a month, an affianced bride.
The marriage was only deferred until their aged and
honored relative should pay her annual visit, and as all
arrangements were nearly completed, aunt Rachel's pres-
ence enabled them to fix the eventful day.
The wedding went off like most other affairs of a sim-
ilar nature. Mr. Way lie looked very gentleman-like in
his clerical suit, and assumed that half-conscious, half-important
air which usually characterizes a bridegroom;
Lucy was very pale and very pretty in white satin and
brussels lace; Mrs Morewood made quite a stately ap-
pearance in tears and lavender silk; while aunt Rachel's
"placid face was in good keeping with her old-fashioned
brocade, which had not seen the light since the marriage
of Lucy's mother. There was the usual quantity of kisses
and curtesis, of cake and compliments. Poor Lucy's
dress and behaviour were closely criticised by young la-
dies, who hoped soon to be placed in the same trying cir-
cumstances, and by Jadies of a certain age, who despaired
of ever having the opportunity to exhibit bridal finery,
while the married, with more practical good sense, com-
passionated the young bride, whose tumujt of feeling they
could so well understand.
A few weeks were given to festivity and gaiety, and
then, with an affectiynate farewell to her friends, particu-
larly 10 mint RnchriT-whu-prtmifceir icrvlsit lier once a
year in her village home, Lucy look hpr departure for
the parsonage. In that happy frame of mind which casts
sunshine over every object in life, the nev. ly married pair
journied towards their new abode, finding Aesh subjects
for mutual congratulation every step of their progress
It was fortunate for them 'thac both were disposed to see
only the fairest side of things, for certainly there was little
to prepossess them in favor ofthe house which they were
to occupy. Mr. Morewood had purchased and sent for-
ward an ample supply of furniture, but it had been procur-
ed rather with reference to the wants of city life than those
of a country residence. The contracted apartments of
the small and picturesque parsonage would with difficulty
admit the ponderous marble table, the huge sofas and the
massive chairs which in obedience to the dictates of fash-
ion had been selected. The mantle ornaments and gi-
randoles were quite too magnificent in their proportions
for the narrow chimney piece, and Lucy was almost in
despair when she found, herself amid all the confusion at-
tendant upon the arrangement of a new and incongruous
establishment. There were trifling evils, however. The
idea of lovsfe a cottage was exactly suited to the romantic
notions of avery young Jady, and she consoled herself
with the thought, that although the sofa certainly looked
very awkward when drawn before the windows, and the
centre table was not very well suited to the hall, where
she was obliged to place it because it could not make its
way through the doors ofthe little parlor, and though the
beautiful candelabras were of little use perched up nearly
to the ceiling ofthe old-fashioned chimney, yet that the
very unsuitableness of her furniture, would give her im-
portance in the eyes of her neighbors by convincing- them
of the different style in which she had formerly lived.
-Mrr Waylfcnvs"a -man of rrrrriabltT cKaTacteFand" fine"
talents, but he was even more than clerically ignorant of
the ordinary details of life. He had been a close and -severe
student ot books, and fancied himself an acute obser-
ver of human nature, though the variest tyro in the latter
intricate science was better skilled than he. With regard
to the common affairs of this working-day world, he was
a mere child, and he was of course little fitted to aid the
inexperienced of his young and pretty wife. Lucy hus-
tled about, and with the assistence of some kind friends of
her husband, who were instigated to offer their services
partly by a desire to learn somethingaboutthe "minister's
wife," she succeeded in reducing matters to some 'degree
of order. It was not until every thing was arranged with-
in doors, the garden neatly trimmed, and the roses prettily
trained to climb about the doors and windows, that
Lucy found time to begin her projected system of house-
keeping. Unfortunately for her good resolutions, howev-
er, the servant who had been brought with them to their
new home, became wearied of the retirement of country
life, and Lucy was left to find another from among the in-
habitants of the village. This was a task of no little diffi-
culty, forwhile there were plenty, who, for a certain con-
sideration, had no objection to "help," none could be found
willing to engage as an actualj servant of all work, espe-
cially if they were to be regarded as inferiors in the fami-
ly. Lucy's ideas of good housekeeping had consisted in
a proper degree of attentionto the conduct of servants, in
guarding against wastefulness and in making her own
sweetmeats and pastry. As far as these things went she
could accomplish her duties very well, but when it-came
to working with her own hands at the mere drudgery of
household cares, she was sadly at a loss Nor weie, these
her only troubles Her 'imprudent frankness and indis-
cretion led her into all sorts of difficulties. Accustomed
to express her feelings without a moments reflection, she
did not consfcJer thatthe same kind remarks, which, whe n
uttered by a young girl among her friends, might be pass-
ed over as the mere ebullutions of youthful error, would
bear a much more serious signification from the lips of one
who, had taken her position in society as a wife. Shesoon
found, however, that she must pay the usual penalty which
is always attached to honor; and that as the "minister" is
always the most noted pprsonage in a countr" village, so
his wife must expect to be the most observed and most crit-
icised of all the women m the place There are few
more severe ordeals than thai too which the young wife
pf a clergyman is subjected. Her dress, her looks, her
manners, all are exposed to the supervision of those who
sppm to fancy that the husband's holy vocation ought to
purify from error not only himself but all others of his
household. Lucy was certainly little qualified to pass
through such .1 trial, for which her youth, her inexperi-
ence and her thoughtfulness equally fitted her. In less
than a year after their marriage the young minister found
himself involved in broils and disputes which he could
neither understand nor allay, and which only served to
embitter his life and render useless his most zealous efforts.
Traced back to their source, these troubles were usually
found to originate in some foolish frankness, some injudi-
cious expression of opinion on the part of Lucy, and at
length weariid with these petty annoyances, Mr. Waylie
yielded to his wife's urgent entreaties, and resigned his
charge.
His well-known talents and learning procured him a
summons to preside over a flourishing congregation in
Lucy's native city, and with a feeling of joy quite equal to
that with which she had first taken possession of the pret-
ty personage, the young wife prepared to have it. Once
settled in a neat and commodious house in the midst of her
former associates, she felt as if her worst cares were over,
and fully convinced that her year's experience in house-
keeping had given her eutire insight into all its eyigencie?,
Lucy fancied she had nothing more to learn. She had
Eeenso much"f?arrassed-by the want of regular servants
that now, when she found herself able to procure those
who promised well, and to change them as often as they
displeased her, she determined to allow herself some in-
dulgence Conscious of her ignorance in practical mat-
ters, she hesitated at eiving positive directions to her do-
mestics, and, indeed, deferred to thtir opinion so frequently,
that they, always quick-sighted in such matters, soon be-
came fully sensible of her self distrust. A few faint
attempts made by her to assert her own authority were
met by that insolent and contemptuous pity with which
cunning servants so often disconcert and embarrass very
young housekeepers, until at length Mrs Waylie, wearied
with useless contentions and continual change, fell into
the habits most agreeable to herself as well as her domes-
tics Her husband's utter ignorance of all practical mat-
ters threw all the responsibilities of the household upon
the unexperienced wife, and she in like manner gladly de-
volved them upon her domestics. Too sensible of the
advantages oftheir position to risk its loss, they took care
to avoid all gross and open neglect Her dinners were
well kooked, her apartments always npatly arranged, and
to a superficial observer Mrs. Waylie's house seemed to
give evidence of skill in domestic- management. But the
yearly bills, which exhibited an expenditure enormously
disapportionate to their means, as well as their wants, told
a very different story.
Lucy had anticipated the aid and counsel of her mother,
but Mrs Morewood was one of those women who conceive
that when they have educated and married their daughters,
their maternal duties are fully accomplished. "My
children must do as I have done," she would say; "as
long as they remain with me they are my especial charge,
but when they marry thpy must take care of ihemselvts"
Mrs Waylie soon found that she must not rely for any
assistance upon her own family, and with a feeling of
pride not very uncommon in the only married daughter,
she delighted in showing her independence. But when
other cares fell upon her, when she became herself a
mother, she would have gladly availed herself of the ex-
perienceand skjll which she had seen exerted among her
brothers and s sters Mrs. Morewood was busily engag-
ed, however, in preparing for tho marriage of her second
daughter, just at the moment when Lucy most wanted her
advice, and the young mother was left to manage as she
best could. The babe was like a new playthiug to the
still thoughtless Lucy. She lovetl 10 dres3 it hi lace and
ribbons, toexhibit it proadly to her admiring friends, to play
with it and pet it as she used lo caress her doll, but of the
real duties and responsibilities of a mother she knew noth-
ing. Instead of selecting some worthy and conscientious
person to assist her in the care of her infant, she procured
a nurse whose chief recommendation was her almost total
ignorance ofthe English language, as if the proper di-
rection ofthe developing faculties of childhood was of lit-
tle importance compared with its early knowledge of the
French patois which could be imparted by an ignorant
foreigner.
Her babe was little more than a year old when a second
was added to their family, and Lucy began to feel lhatihe
cares of life were increasing rapidly in her path. She
now fancied she had quite sufficient excuse for neglecting
household affairs, and perhaps her maternal duties might
h'ave been offered as an apology for partial inattention if
they had been properly fulfilled. But the truth was that
she had fallen into habit of self indulgence which threat
ened to unfit her for all duties. Slight and frequent in
disposition had taught her the luxury of indolence, and
now, every attactt or ustiessness was construea into an in
cipient illness. Halt ol every day was passed on a couch,
where she idly dozed away her time in the full belief that
her health would not allow her to make the slightest ex
ertion. Her children were left in the care ofthe nurse
whom she implicitly trusted, her household was managed
by her servants, and her husband, whose habits'of abstrac-
tion were more and more confirmed by time, sepmed to
know little and care less about the every-day affairs of
life.
It requires great tact and discrimination to preserve all
the attributes of early and" refined Tenderness amid the dai
ly recurring cares of domestic lite, i here is so entire a
change in the position of the wedded pair since the days of
courtship the transition is so great between the language
of wooing endearment, "so sweet and so absurd," and the
grave consultations, on the subject of daily dinners and
weekly bills, which form so essential a topic of conversa-
tion between husband and wife, that it can scarcely be a
matter of surprise, if affpetion should lay aside all its ro-
mantic follies and seat itself in very homely and humble
garb beside the domestic hearth. It is only by never los-
ing sight either of the lowliest or the loftiest aims of hu-
man nature, that we can still surround ourselves with the
refined pleasures of intellect, while we livd nmid the thou-
sand cares of sensuous life. It is only by performing the
daily business of this work-day world in a thoughtful spir-
it, remembering that the mere exigencies of physical ex-
istence are not lo be the engrossing objects of our atten-
tion, and never forgetting lhat while the humblest duty is
not to be neglected, the noblpst may come within our
sphere of action, that we can still retain the freshness of
feeling and earnestnrss ot purpose wnicn gives sucn zest
to life. Yet how few understand these truths! how few
learn the true path of duty and happiness in married life
until time and care have made their hearts only the recep-
tacle of withered hopes and faded affections!
Lucy's whole life since her marriage had been a series
of mistakes, but her first gi eat error was the assumption
ofthe duties of a wife. Mr. Waylie, utterly unskilled in
woman's nature, had never doubted the existence of all the
qualities which he fancied should belong 10 the female
character, and he had been both disappointed and discour-
aged at her actual inferiority to his ideal. She had nei-
ther the taste nor the talent which could enable her to
share his intellectual pursuits, afld believing that he had
only shared the common lot, by uniting himself to a wom-
an so unequal to himself in mental strength, he returned
with redoubled ardor lo his books, leaving her to attend to
the more essential but less refined duties of life. But he
he look no pains to direct her youthful mind or to-discipline
her youthful character. She was left to the teaching
of circumstances alone, and the lessons of experience, tho'
fraught with sorrow to all, bring not to all the fruits of
wisdom. Warm-hearted and well disposed as she was,
yet Lucy was a most faulty and negligent wife, and her in-
creasing duties only seemed to diminish her power or her
will lo fulfil them
On Lucy's twenty second birthday a period of life
when her wiser friends were'just preparing to take upon
infraseives tneiiutiesoi woraannooa snewassuung sau-
ly and disconslately in her apartment, gazing mournfully
upon the face of her youngest babe, while the noisy and
riotous mirth of three unruly boys, who sported around
her, seemed scarcely to disturb her meditations. Already
the mother of four children, she was just awaking to a
sense of her responsibilities. Her nurse had been detect-
ed in administering narcotic draughts to the sickly and
troublesome babe, andLucy had just passed through the
tarrible ordeal of witnessing the sufferings, while she an-
ticipated the death of her infant. The life ofthe child
was, however, saved, and she was now called to watch
over it with untiring care, U st torpor of brain, which had
been produced by frequent doses ofthe noxious medicine,
should result in total imbecility of mind. It was then,
when utterly overwhelmed with rqmorseand sorrow, that
she was reminded of Rachel's early lessons of wisdom
and virtue. Oh ! had I but listened to her counsels, had
I but besought her aid, I should not have been thus sorely
tried," was the thought of the desponding mother, and with
a sudden exertion ofunwonted energy, she determined to
write to the old lady a full detail of all her troubles.
Aunt Rachel answered the letter by coming in person
lo share the sorrows of her favorite, and Lucy's first gleam '
of comtort beamed trom the cneeriui lace of ner wise anu 'I
virtuous friend. Wearied and dispirited, she gladly re
"signed the charge of her household into the hands ofthe j
old lady, who quickly availed herself of this opportunity
to reform abuses ;
"Your first care; must be lo obtain a faithful woman to
take charge of your children," said aunt Rachel!
"Oh no, I will never trust them again to any one; here-
after I must be my children's onlynursey if I had only
done my duty towards them, poorjittle Lucy would never
have been placed in the power of that vile Rosalie."
"Take care lest you run from one extreme into another
equally bad, Lucy ; who is to manage your- household
while you are confined to the nursery.?"
'Lmust leave all that to,thesservants: my children are
of the most importance, and I know I cannot do every-
thing." "With proper assistance you can do a great deal, my
dear Lucy. Suppose instead, of your worthless Swiss
woman, you were to employ an-honest and faithful person
to superintend your nursery, while you attended to every
part of the complicated machinery of domestic govern-
ment. Would It not be better for you to kpep an eye over
every different'department tagaard against wastefulness
in the kitchen, neglect in the parlour, slovenliness in the
bed-chambers and ignorance in the nursery?"
"How can I do all this, aunt? I am sure I have tried
to watch my servants, but luever could prevent them from
cheating and imposing upon me."
":Uid you take the only true method of checking them,
Lucy ? Did it ever occur to you when you were com-
plaining of the misconduct of servants, that much of the
blarrip might very justly iall upon the mistess?"
'Upon me, aunt? I have always treated my servants
with too much indulgence, but neither by kindness nor
severity could I ever succeed with them-"
"Let me tell you some of my experience. I look upon
my servants as beings with minds to be improved and
hearts to be either hardened into error or softened into
goodness accerding as they shall beaded upon by circum-
stances ; beings, in short, exactly like myself, excepting
that they lack the advantages of education and fortune
which have fallen to my lot. Now it is neither in your
nature nor mine, Lucy, to insult a dependent."
"But servants do not consider themselves dependent,
aunt."
"Nor are they so, in the ordinary signification of the
word, for they give their labor in return for thefr wages,
butiurely they are dependent upon us for their daily-comforts,
nnd for the impressions which they receive almost
hourly from their precepts or our example. The first
thing necessary is to give them a proper respect for the
person who is to direct and control them. They are pro-
verbially quick-sighted to deficiencies, whatever they hiay
be to good qualities, and if the mistiess is ignorant of her
own duties they will not regard her decrees. Teach them
to respect your superior information, your integrity and
your kindliness, and you may then mould them as you
please. Treat them in return with the respect which
every human being owes to his fellow man let there be
no wanton outrage of feeling, no unnecessary and slavish
restrictions, no disdain of their peculiar notions, and above
all no contemptuous indifference to their interests. Exact
from them strict attention to their duties, regularity in all
their occupations, neatness in their personal appearance as
well as in their daily business, and the most rigid and un-
compromising verachy. In return you should accord
them sympathy for their private sorrows, tolerance for
their errors of omission and commission, kindness of tone
and manner in your continued intercourse with ihem, and
the most attentive care of sickness falls upon them. Look
upon them as humble friends, whom it is your duty to
elevate in the scale of society as far as may be in your
power, not so much by pecuniary benefactions which can
only lift them from their own sphere to render them use-
less in another, but by improving their capacities, enlight-
ening their ignorance, and awakening their best feelings."
You would make the kitchen a sort of school, aunt
Rachel, and the mistress of a family would be only the
head teacher, if your plan was adopted."
"I would make every department of domestic life a
school, but it should be a school in which the mistress as
well as the servants might be a student. We never do
good to others, Lucy, without deriving benefit ourselves;
'even if we meet with an ungrateful return we are not with-
out our reward in the consciousness of duty. I have prac-
ticed what I now counsel, and the effection of domestics
who have lived with me until they are rather like mem-
bers oi my own family than mere hired servants, has been
my recompense."
Lucy profited much by the lessons and still more by the
assistance of aunt Rachel. Things were placed on a
much better footing in the course of a few months, and the
young wife found the first reward of her docility in the
increased comfort and diminished expenditure of her
household. It cost her many a hard struggle to conquer
old habits, and to remember all that she was now desirous
of accomplishing. But she did succeed at last, and when
comfort and cheerfulness and quiet presided over the
whole family, even ihe abstracted and studious husband
was sensible ofthe change.
"After all, Lucy," said aunt Rachel, when a year or
two afterwardsshe paid her niece another visit, "after all.
.you have made an excellent house-keeper."
' "I am glad you think so, aunt," was the reply of the
placid wife, whose faded beauty bore little resemblance
to the sunny loveliness which had characterized her girl-
hood. "1 am rejoiced that my efforts have not been in
vain ; but you were right' when you said 'After alV It
is onlyi'after all' that I have been able to understand and
practice the duties which should have been learned before
the cares of life pressed so heavily upon me. The exper-
ience of my life, uneventful as it has been, might afford a
lesson to many a gidefy girl, who goes to the altar as she
would take her place in a dance, perfectly thoughtless of
the future, and utterly ignorant of thexesponsibilily which
she is assuming. I have had no very great trials, no over-
whelming sorrows, and yet my youth and all its fresh feel-
ings have faded unenjoyed, while my present usefulness
which now ensures my future peace, has only come to me
'after dlV "
Brooklyn, L I.
GRAPHIC PICTURE OF AN OLD DRUNK-
ARD Here is a picture, painted by the hand of a master,
(Professor Wilson,) that is worth a thousand sermons or
lectures against the sin of drunkenness:' -, --Jt,
' Look at that gray-headed man of three-score and up-
wards, sitting by the way-side- He wasonce. an elder of
the-kirk; and a pious man he was, ifcever ptety adorned
thertemples 'the lyart haffets, wearing thin and bare
ofascoitish peasant. What eye beheld themany hun-
dred stepslhat, one. by one, witk imperceptible gradation,
led him down, downt down,lo the. lowest depths ofsharae,
suffering, and ruin? For years before ltwas'braited .
about that Gabriel Mason was: addicted to drinkhis wife
used to sit weeping, in the spence, when the sous and
daughters were our at their work in the fields ; and the
infatuated man, fierce in the excitement ofraw spirits, kept
causelessly raging-and storming- through, every nook of
that once so-peaceful tenement, whicrvfbr many Jiappy
years, had never been disturbed by the load voice of an-
ger or reproach. His eyes were seldom turned on hi3
unhappy wife, except with a sullen scowl d? fiery wrath;
but, when they did look on her with kindness, there was
also a-Tueful self-upbraiding in their expression, on ac-
count of his cruelty; andat the sight of s.uch transitory
tenderness, her heart would overflow- with, forgiving af-
fection, and her eyes with unendurable, tears But nei-
ther domestic sin nor domestic sorrow will conceal from
the eyes and ears of men; andfat last jGa.brie! Mason's
name was a by-word in the month ofthe scoffer. One
Sabbath he entered the kirk in astateof miserable aban-
donment, and from that day he was no-longer an elder.
To regain his character, seemed to him," in his despenC-
tion, beyond the power of man, and against the decree of
God. So he delivered himself up, like a slave to that
one appetite ; and in a few years his whole honsehold had
gone ta destruction. His wife wa3 a mairoo, almost in
the prime of life, when she died; but as she kept wearing
away to the other world, her face told that she felt her
years had been too many in thjs. Her pldest son, una-
ble, in pride and shame, iojifi up his eyps at-kirk-or mar-
ket, went away to- the city, jand en!istt.d into a regiment
about to embark on foreign service. His two sisters
went to take farewell of bim, but never returned; oner it
is said, having died of a fever in the infirmary, just as if
she had been a pauper z and the other for the thought oi
sin, and sorrow, and shame, and suffering, is ruinous to
the soul gave herself up, in her beauty, an easy pray to a
destroyer, and doubtless has run her course of agony, and
is now at peace. The rest of the family dropped down,
one by'one, out ofsight, info inferior situations in far off
places ; but there was a curse, it was thought, hanging
over the family, and of none of them did a favorable re-
port ever come lo their native parish ; while he, the in-
ner, whose vice Seemed to have worked all their wo, re-
mained in the,chainsofhis tyrannical passion nor seemed
ever, for more than the short tnrm of a day, to cease hug-
ging them to his heart. Semblance of all that is roost
venerable in the character of Scotland's peasantry: image
of a perfect patriarch, walking out to mtdiate at eventide!
What a noble forehead! Features bow high, dignified,
composed I There, silting in the shode,of that old way-
side tree, he seems some religious missionary, travelling;
to and f:o over the face of the earth seeking out sin and
sorrow, that be may tame them under the word of God,
and change their very being into piety and peace. Call
him not a hoary hypocrite ; for he cannot helptbat noble,
that venerable, that apostolic aspect, that dignified figure,
as if bent gently by time-, loath lo touch it with too heavy
a hand; that holy sprinkling over his furrowed temples of
the silver-soft and the snow-white hair thtsearethe gifts
of gracious Nature all, and Nature will not reclaim them
but in the tomb. That is Gabriel Mason, the drunkard !
And in an hour you may, if your eyes can bear the sight,
see and hear bim staggering upwind down the village,
cursing, swearing, preaqhing, praying stoned by black-
guard boys and girls, who boundjajl the dogs and curs at
his heels, til', taking refugp in the smithy, or the pot-house,
he becomes the sport Qf grpwn plowns, and, after much
Idiot laughter, ruefully mingled--with-Tsighs, -and groans,
and tears, he is suffered to mount a lable, and urged, per-
haps by reckless folly, to give out a tpxt from the Biblp,
which is nearly engraven on his memory so much and
so many other things effaced forever and 'there, like a
wild itinerant, he stammers forth unintentional blasphemy,
till the liquor he has been allowed or instigated to swal-
low smites him suddenly senselesst.and, falling down, he
is huddled off into a corner of som0 lumber room, and left
to sleeo better far for such a wretch were it to death.
Scollish'Tevu In.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. '
Monday, Nov. 28.
House met, roll called, no quorum.
Ou motion, the House adjourned until 3 o'clock, P. M.
3 o'cxock, p. m.
House met, roll called, there being no quorum, the er-geant-at
arms was dispatched forabsentees, who returned
with a sufficient number to form a quorum. On motion
of Mr. Scurry, the Hon.'R A. Pinnall of Jaspre Coun-
ty, presented his credentials, took the' oath and his seat.
On motion of Mr- Warren, the House adjourned until
10 o'clock to-morrow morning.
Tuesday Nov. 29.
House met, roll called, quorum presant.
Mr. Williamson gave notice that he would present on,
to-morrow, a preamble and resolution relative lo thecite-
zen soldiers now in ihe field.
On motion, the House adjourned until 10 o'clock to-
morrow morning. ,
Wednesday, Nov. 29
House metjjoll called, quorum presant Journals of
the proceeding days w-re read and adopted.
In accordance with a resolution or the House of Repre-
sentatives, the Speaker appointed the following standing,
committees:
On the Judiciary Messers. Scurry, Lewis, Portis,
Robinson of Brazoria,, and Williamson.
On Finance Messers. Hill, Robinson of S., Walling
Grimes and Caldwell.
On Fereign Rrlations Messers. Robinson of Br, Ward,
Dennison, Whyte and Peebles.
On Public Lands Messers. Matthews, Hill, Walling,
Fields and Haynes.
On Military Affaire Messers. Sherman, Crisp, Por-.
lis, Cazneau and Hewelt.
On Naval Affairs Messers. Potter, Warren, Midly,
Haigler and Pennall.
On Indian "Affairs Messers. He welt, Hodge, Holmes,
Haynes and Hunter.
On the State ofthe Republic Messer. Grimes, Cald-
well, Williamson, Cazneau and Dial.
On Claims and Accounts Messers.. Milby, Hewett,
Hanover, Peebles, and Aunler.
On Retrenchment Messers.. Robinson of S , Whyte,
Peebles, Fields and Haigler.
On Public Printing Messers. Ward, Garza, Parker, .
Pennall and Holmes.
On Roads and Bridges Messers; 'Dennison, Dial,
Lewis, Fields and Hodge. - i
On County Boundaries Messers. Hewett, Garza,
Sparks, Crisp and Milby.
On Post-Offices and Post-Roads essers. Caldwell,
Ward, Crisp, Cazneau and Hill. ,r
On Privileges and Elections Messers. Portis,"Warren,
Haynes, Parker and Potter.
On Engrossed Bills Messers! Eewis, Holmes, Sher-
man, Dennison and Hanover.
OnEnrolled Bills Messers. Parke,. Matthew's, Sparks,
Potter and Scurry.
Mr. Williamson offered his preamble and resolution
relative to the Citizen soldiers now in the field: to the
purport that the House appreciated their patriotic motives,
and would aid them with its sanction and suppbrttfn e
laudable purposes for which they were organized aJ.. '-
ted unanimously.
Mr. Robinson of B.," moved'tjjat theSPfcsideai be T-
structed to issue writs oTeleclionun therobi ot Hon "W
E. Jones, and Sam. Maverick, now m eoptivrtj b$ h
Mexicans. - "
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