The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-03-21

door ana crooked your elbow as she
came down the church steps? And il
she was graciously pleased TO take il
didn't you walk home with her with
your pompadour fairly sweeping the
star-dust from the milky-way? Didn';
you lop, and loll and hang on that front
gate until her pa gave up mending it in
despair, and let it fall off the hinges,
never to be replaced until after that
dizzy, al-mixed-up day when you were
married?
What kind of a vehicle was in your
courtship? There always is vehicle OF
some kinda buggy or a boat, or just a
sled 10 coast on in winter.
If il was a sled do you remember how
careful you were to hold her on as you
went spinning down the snow-clad
hills? And how you put your arm
around her to keep her from slipping on
the way up again?
II it was a buggy, do you remember
how the old horse used TO saunter UP
and down the green-walled lanes, stop
ping now and then 10 nibble at the
hedges or reach up and pull a tender
twig from an overhanging tree? For,
although il was summer, you were so
afraid she would catch cold, that you
mad to hold her cloak on with both
hands
The stars do not shine as bright nova
days. and there isn't anything like as
many.
Maybe 1t was a boat. An old, water
soaked, water-logged craft, with mil
dewed planks turning green. The oars
were heavy and clumsy and made big
blood blisters on your palms. but what
did you care. when you were showing
her how strong and what skillful oars
man YOU were? And you pulled up
stream early in the evening. on the
shallow side under the long point where
the current wasn't strong. When the
stars began TO peep out mere and there
and the only trace Of the departed day
was lust faint shadow OF aurora bore
ais in the west. you pulled across the
river into the bend where the current
ran strong under the high banks. The
moon came out and danced across the
ripping waters and in just one place
made a long lane ot milky light clear TO
the other shore. The overhanging cot
ton-wood trees shed feecy cotton balls
that softly fell with long. graceful
sweeps 10 and fro. and al last filtered
t1e surface OF the tapping water Ike
fall Of summer snow. Wasn't the cur
rent in the bend so swift that you found
i unnecessary 70 row? You took an
car and sat in the stern beside her. The
seat was 50 small that it was a beauti-
Oh al -
oar and tried 70 guide the boat And
YOU had 20 put your arm clear around
her 10 reach that oar and help her guide
for fear she'd run the boat into bank
OF soft sand and sink A. las. when
the landing-place was reached. how
carefully you helped her ashore. Hov
frightened you were lest shed get just
enc splash OF water on those dainty
ii;;le boots,
Are you as csreful-are you as
thoughtful Of her now-as n the old
DAYS OF sled and boat riding? Do you
ever stop 70 think Of her health now
That she il your wife and the mother
% your babes2
Do YOU know that seven women out
~ every ten suffer from weakness or
disease Of the delicate organs that make
and motherhOod possi5le2 Do
You know that tf=ir sufferings steal ne
graceful spring from their carriage. the
curves from their figures.
the color from their cheeks and ne
love-Iight from their eyes, Do y0a
know tist these conditions = negizc ed.
condemn the mother q an urti1asiy
death, and her babes % Sickness and
suffering Do you know tina; -1s-e &
: safe and uzfsiling remedy FOR n.
.-oubles ~ ,his description w.tSa TIE
reach % all There - l, Is Docte-
Pierc='s Fsyo-iie Prescription Il acts
directly OF the delicate and important |
organs concerned !: inpz-ts 70 them
.as tone, yigo. and elasticity thai 20