The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-10-12
LOVE IN TOWN;

LOVE IN 1O"A>'
They had no parting In the wood,
No meetings in the lonely lane;
Reside the sea they never stood.
Nor watched the sunset after rain.
Their pathway was the busy street,
Their trysting place the office stair;
And yet know JOY more complete
Did never visit mortal pair.
And why should rustic love alone
Be decked with all poetic art?
These dull gray city walks have known
The beating of a nations heart.
The weary workers come and so.
The secret of each soul Is dumb;
Yet still at times al radiant glow
Across their wayworn lives may come.
And these. my happy lovers. knew
Hard toll. small wage and humble fare;
The skies they saw We're never blue.
But love made gladness everywhere.
His step upon the Office floor
Was sweet to her as robins song:
Her face that passed the open door,
For him made sunshine all day long, long,
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'TIet u.s." pleads amber" "give over
clubs for awhile, and start a training
school for mothers. We do not need
anything so much in the world as good
mothers. As well expect the house
keeper to turn out batch OF good
cookies. If she makes them of sawdust
and alum. as to expect the children to
develop into good citizens without the
right sort Of mothers. The right sort
of mother knows where her boy Is all
day long. She spends her time enter
tanning him. rather than entertaining
shallow-headed callers from everlasting
TO everlasting. She tells him stories,
reads to him, and picks out tunes with
him on the piano. She is chummy'
with him, too, and has his complete
confidence. She doesn't allow her girls
to go to the depot to see the trains
come in, nor does she permit them to
spend nights away from the guardian
ship of their homes. She is watchful
at the same time that she Is kind, low
ing always, but never languid in the
performance of those duties which the
vast responsibility Of motherhood has
laid upon her. Give US better mothers
and the world will soon be full Of bet.
ter men and women"
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TOO OFTEN THE WAY:
Prospective Father-in-Law-And you
promise to make my daughter happy?
Enamored Youth-I will care for her
like a beautiful flower
Prospective Father-in-Law.-Iho hope you
don't mean that she Is to live on water
and air.-Texas siftinss.
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"Amber," in another place, "how Chris
tian people got round the gospel COM
mand, Love thy neisohbor as thyself.'
1t doesn't say love him (or herr otter a
proper introduction, or II agreeable, or
congenial, or Of good family and estab-
lished reputation-it simply gives the
command on general tprinciples.
don't pretend to be good enough to obey
the mandate myself, for l honestly
think It is species of hypocrisy to say
you love everybody. One might as we'll
say one were fond of all fruit alike,
whether specked, wormy or rotten. But
let my good orthodox professor put this
in his pipe and smoke 1t. Let him re-
member it next time he sees his neigh
Dor plunged into an extremity, or ham
dicapped by an annoyance of any kind.
If we love our neighbor we are bound
TO help him. and neighbor in this sense
means anyone who chances to be near
us, whether black or white, raggedly
disreputable or sanctimoniouslyf frilled."
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A FOREIGN ALLIANCE:
He contemplated her fixedly. and when
he spoke there was thrill of pity in his
voice.
MY hand is yours" he faltered. .'but
my heart Is another's."
His American wife waved her fan lam
guidly..
"I'll buy or SELL" she rejoined.
Pressing his hand to his brow His Grace
the Duke rang franticaly for ice-water
and straw, struggling frantically in the
meanwhile to collect a few thoughts.-De-
troht Tribune.
Some time ago 1T was asserted, as the
Pittsburg Dispatch reminds us, that
the bicycling rage had diverted invest
ments in diamonds to those made in the
wheels. Previous to that 1t had been
asserted that bicycling was reducing
the retail liquor trade to innocuous de-
suetude; while it was with equal posi-
tiveness declared that the cigar trade
was languishing from the same reason.
The bicycle enthusiasts have also
claimed that their favorite machine
would turn the horse into an extinct
species, and it has been claimed that
the electric and steam railroads may
in the future be compelled to give their
exclusive attention to through traffic
and heavy freight. These revolution
ary results have been predicted In favor
of the machine, but now comes an
enemy OF the wheel with the assertion
that bicycling exerts an adverse in
fiuence on matrimony, with a permis-
sfble deduction that IL the riding OF
the wheel becomes universal matri-
isteDca. altogether. This is q dreadful
assertion. AS matrimony Is an indis-
pensable preliminary to the existence
of the next generation the result pre-
dicted Is opposed to the interests not
only of the human race. but of bicy-
cling. If there were to be no next gener-
alton there could be no bicycling, and
the Whole bicycle interest from factor
les 10 amateur scorchers would have
to shut up. II the bicycle is going to
impair the statistical average Of mat
severely as on the rest Of the social or
ENCOURAGING:
Marie-Did you tell your friend. Miss
van Pun, Of our engagement?
Osbourne-Yes.
Marie-What did she say?
Osbourne-Oh, she said had her SYM
pathy.-Brooklyn Eagle.
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But the answer to, this dreadful idea
1s clearly the same as that which solved
the famous puzzle, why fish put into
Q pail brimful of water does not cause
the water to overflow. 1t Is not so.
Indeed, 1t is safe to assert that the bi-
cycle Is an incentive and preparatory
school to matrimOny. A man who has
mastered the wheel can feel that he
has some knowledge Of the way to deal
with the vagaries Of the female mind.
One who has taught young woman to
ride will summon the courage to pro-
pose. which he never could have found
on foot or on horseback. When all So
ciety rides the wheel 1t will be recog-
nized as an invention for the promotion
OF matrimony more romantic than ball
rooms and more rapid than lovers
walks. The wheel and matrimony will
Toll on together, with the acceleratio,
OF speed of which the bicSra as we'll
as the age are typical. There may be
headers and divorces, but the bicycle.
wnile II my revolutionize many things,
VIII not change human nature, nor re-
duce the temperature of young blood
to that of iced milk.