The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1895-05-10
SCRANTON, MISSISSIPPI, FRIDAY, MAY TO- 1895.

and life has a different meaning. All
has not been roscatc, thorns have been
in the pathway, but this has only
served good in the end.
II she intends marrying ut all wo.
man should be welded at twenty-five.
The shades of girlhood have fallen
long ago and she is well into the dawn
Of womanhood. Then, II she has not.
already embraced the opportunities
that have been hers to make her life
a grand success, why, she never will.
Whatever her choice OF a life then,
she has made. Her youthful fancies
are over now, her maturer mind has
maturer ideas. 1t is the morning of
grand, glorious womanhood, exalted
state when wit is brightest, sharpest,
intellect keenest, and there Is a
sparkling energy about it all. Then
she should be married, II at all. There
are no half-girlsh, half-w0manish
ideas about her, she Is determined as
to the dictates Of her conscience, and
she views life not as wavering, timid
girl. but as a calm, energetic woman.
Then she is able TO be burdened with
the weight of trouble II it comes; she
can then 90 bravely on again; not
bend submissively, but meet it, aud
overcome it.
Now, some may say, that at that
age woman ceases to have the same
enjoyment of life that comes with
younger years. This impression is
created, believe, by the many young
women who have married in early life,
and are at that age tired, listicss
creatures, already settled down to the
quiet home-life. Their gowns and
bonnets tend toward somber hues,
and the young faces that should still
be fresh and charming ones take a
demure and elderly expression; their
aim in life is then to please John, and
to be or to keep a good cook, and a
model housewife. Now cooks are
sometimes careless, and housekeeping
all but perfect, and so the little wife
frets about it. Lines come to her
face, and set mark of too early age
upon it.
There are no more beautiful duties
than those Of a housewife cheerfully
performed. But the prosaic stages of
married life sometimes cause body
to be anything but cheerful. There
is much that is prosaic about married
life. The vision Of domestic happi-
ness before the ceremony is rosy
one. There is u kind angel who
always smooths over the rough spots
of the pathway they are to tread to.
gcther, and gilds anew the murky
spots upon their horizon. But when
the reality does come somehow there
are some rocks upon the road, the
sunshine has not quite such golden
tints. After the novelty Of the new
life has ebbed away, after we have
thumbed the sharp edges SO often,
comes the real state, the true. The
expected when itarrives Is never quite
what we thought it would be. 1t al
most always falls little short Of Ou.
surmises, unfortunately.
So 1t is in married life, and youth
impatient, fiery youth, knows not how
to meet and conquer the obstruction;
that spring up to meet and frighter
us. Many will we find when we deser,
our single state, and though we need
not meet them single-handed, w
cannot meet them with the eQuani m
| ity Of the matron whose best year!
have not been lost.
| For lost are the years. The marri-
age state is pleasant to contemplate
two beings living for each other, an(
a glowing future before them. But
girls, II you would give soma OF you
life to worthy pursuits higher than th'
aim Of common mortals, do not MARI!
; In early youth. Marriage for thos'
who wish to enhance their life ant
hold alUft a flaming falchion of fame
should not marry young. "The single
, ness Of aim is destroyed for YOU
But II you feel that you have me
your hearts Idol Of a man, that yor
are sure you will always love him, tina
, he will always love you, and that 70,
, cannot live apart, then take him
girls, and Gods blessing be upon yol
|, all
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