The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1890-07-24

boys and girls while they are still
rolling hoops and playing marbles.
We sometimes hear of cases of
mercenary marriages which the
friends of the victim applaud as acts
of heroic self sacrifice. A fair young
girl, in order to save her father from
Bankruptcy or her family from pow
erty gives her hand to some rich
man, to whom she cannot give her
heart. Society pities her and ap-
plauds her, and certain portion Of
| it keeps sharp lookout for the time
when, the hand being already given,
the heart is given to another. Oh,
what pitiful bankruptcy, is this,
worse, thousand times worse, than
the darkest financial disaster which
can overtake the family.
Or suppose the heart is never Civ
en-. The woman has the courage to
play her part in this mock marriage
through to the bitter end gives up
the hope OF loving, or strangles it in
birth, and lives at the side of her
husband an honorable wife, the
throne in her heart always empty, the
hunger never satisfied; what then ?
Is there any happiness for husband,
wife or child in that household,
think you? None, for the children
of these loveless marriages are born
without love to their dover, and
without the Inheritance Of love what
is life worth: This is no romance.
Ask the man whose opinion ON these
mattersyou believe in-your clergy
man, who knows life at its best;
your lawyer. who secs it at its worst;
your physician, who sees it as it is,
on it's finite side-if this is not liv-
ing fact.
/ once knew a man who had sold
himself to a rich woman whom he
did not love. He had been misin-
formed in regard to the amount of
her fortune under her own control.
The marriage did not please the
trustees of the heiress, financial dis
asters swept away most of her prop
erty, and after ten years he found
himself bound 10 a woman he did
not love, whose property only ena-
bled them TO live in the quietest
manner, in corner of the great
world of fashion to which they be-
longed, He bad dropped out of the
profession he had studied, and was
a mere CIPHER in the community. /
remember no person that | have
ever known that inspired me with
the protund pity l felt for this spent
wording. | shall never forget the
bitterness in his voice as he gave
me the following advice: ''When
you marry, marry for love, for you
may get something worth having.
Never marry for money, for you are
likely to get as badly fooled as 9th
er people"
The greatest thing in the world is
love. There is no happiness, there
is no content without love. We are
born with the precious heritage OF
the mother love and the father love
but that that sacred parental love
does not suffice us: in the order of
nature, it can shield us but for a
part OF our pilgrimage through this
world. In the springtide of life
every human heart yearns for it's
lover, as the bird calls and cries for
its mate. The yearning for love is
your birthright, sell it not for mess
of pottage
There is no better test to love
than this very question. You say
you love me, is your love holiday or
working day love? If holiday, it is
like the false dawn of the orient
Omar tells of, and we will look for
better things. 1t is suitable to the
ballroom and to the tennis court. it
passes the time of waiting for the
sunrise. Working day love for me
love that will make both of us
stronger to work, drawer to over
come, more patient to endure If
it is this love that your love offers,
be not afraid to take him and it to
your heart, for it will make the fire
in the kitchen and even turn the
roast upon the spit. Working-day
love is what every woman hungers
for, whether she marries a rich man
or poor man.