The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1891-05-29
BROKEN HEARTS.

Man seeks for pleasure, fame, and rank in
his station of life. His prime inclination is
AVarice is a vice which has broken many a
talented and gifted mans heart We have
those whose hearts have never been crushed
by any great weight of sorrow or disappoint-
ment; in other words, those happy-gO. LUCKY
people, who take lie as it comes. And these
are the ones who are liable to scoff at the
idea of peoples hearts being broken. To
their minds the person with a broken heart
lives only in the fertile Imagination of the
novelist or the fanctlul poet We often see a
man who should be content with his sur
roundlngs, sigh for wealth and fame. When
these men should be happy in the society OF
wife and children, they are wishing for the
gradually talks his wife into taking his view
of things, and they struggle and toll against
adVersaries, and at last reach the coveted
goal Soon they discover that There are still
drawbacks to happiness. The children who
have imbibed the idea that wealth alone is
essential to happiness, plunge into whirl-
scorn, when they look back at the simple
home comforts which so delighted them IN
bygone days. The sons fall in with dissipated
young men, scoffers at religion, ami then sink
downward step by step. The daughters have
come in contact with those fortune-hunters
who follow in the footsteps OF rich young
ladies, and the marriages which they thought
would be sources OF SO much happiness, have
been mere farces. Where now are they to
look for happiness? Can they obtain IL IRON
the rich hangings OF silk aud plush which
drape their walls? From the cut glass in
which the rosy wine sparkles on their table {?
No! Desolate indeed seems the castle, and
thought wanders back TO the Joys of the cot
tage, which had been their home. What is
the end of this short-lived dream of happi-
ness Two hearts broken by disappoint-
ment The structure which their life work
has raised, has crumbled into dust. Then
there are hearts broken by love. Men do not
as general rule take disappointment in love
TO heart as much as women, 1t has been
said, "Man's love rs OF mans life a thing
apart; It's woman's whole existence" And
| from the days of Romeo and Juliet, down 10
the many tragedies which love causes in this
enlightened period of the nineteenth centLry,
there have been women who staked their all
upon love but lost. Love was the last plank
| TO save them from ship wreck; II hoated away
and all was lost; then came despair and a
broken heart. However, / do admire tue
matter of fact women who conducts her love
affairs ON the plan that, there are as good
| FISH in tne sea as ever were caught; and when
one venture fails, does not hesitate to bait her
hook for another catch, and recOnciles herself
/ TO The first that win bite. a gain, we have the
heart of a moth er, broken through the wy
wardness of son or daughter. All, sharper
than the bite of a serpents tooth, is the act OF
| a thankless child, parent works and tolls
| for the child, plans for him. builds all hope on
him, and expects him to be a source of com
/ fort in old age. Perhaps il Is allowing mother
who lavlshes kiudnesses upon him; ana how
has he repaid her9 He forsakes her for the
society OF wayward, dissipatsd companions
| Is 1t not heart broken mother who PAGES
restlessy up and down alternately weeping
| duh pray lh6 lOA hSi ClllAlS NulAh his ldllCi
loses all patience with him md drives him
/ from home in disgrace. The END of the
| tragedy comes at last. That fond mother
sinks into the grave, her heart broken by the
waywardness of he child for whOm she spent
so many anxious days and sleepless nights
Does he reform? Perhaps; but too late to re
store his heart broken mother from the un
\ timely grave. That demon drink has broken
| more hearts tnan all other causes combined
| There is the wife who sees the hard-earnet
! dollars of her husband going into the I'll o
/ the saloon KpeDer when she and her l1ttl(
| ones stand so much in need of IL. her husband
i but week of his former manhood, The
/ home once the picture of comfort now speaks
/ misery from its every nook and corner. Car
! drink have worked this ruin? Can 10 have
broken that gNntle wifes heart? on, ye rum
sellers Is ii ans wonder that the curse OF s.
many mothers and wives hang on your guilt!
heads? You openly violate every law of the
Lland by selling tominors and on the sabbath
aud every law of nature by selling drink tC
| those who have already taken more of TN
/ poisonous stuff than their system can bear
/ Drink, indeed has broken hundreds anc
hundreds OF hearts. But, then. there ART