Marriage

- Wby caunot people enter into the marriage state without such a troublesome cxhibition of joy ? We sce nothing in the occasion calculatcd to inspire mirth, but on the contrary, much that might justly awaken solicitude and tears. Who can teil what may betide ? That wreath rnay not yet have faded when the eye that now flashes beneath its fragrant bloom may be olosed in death ! That costly bridal dress, enriching and betraying the beautiful forin, may uot yet have received a soil frornime to time or an invasión from fickle nrehion, when it must be laid asido for the pulseless shroud ! and those who have now met to congratúlate and make merry, may, ere another moon shall wauo, weet to sympathie und mourn ! L" Beware of little expenses; a Bmaflleak will siuka great sbip.