The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1898-07-13
gratified TO know our old friend Is meet
with much success.


gratified 10 know our old friend Is meet
with much success.
Southern women and Louisville wo-
men especially are much admired in
New York and in the east generally A
Washington Colonial reception last
week my old friend Mrs. L G Quinlin,
nee Miss Mary Amis, was voted one Of
the handsomest and most charming.
She is a sister Of John w. Green who is
we'll known here and In Meade county,
his father having died here.
A true lady never makes personal
remarks, she never deals in disagreeable
conversation, she never brings up past
offenses. She knows II she does that IL
is all attributed TO envy, jealousy and
unhappy experience OF her own. A
true, good woman always carries a man
tie of sweet charity TO envelop and hide
misdt meanors and thoughtless mistakes.
II we would only remember it we could
all be kept exceedingly busy busting our
own belongings and standing on the
watchtower, ready to correct our own
errors. LEAD us not into temptation"
is easily uttered but hard TO practice.
A friend asks, "will you give a list OF
the ten best short poems2" Twill say
that nobody really knowns which are
the ten best short poems and Judging
from all the lists I've seen opinions
differ widely on this important subject.
LIES readers, however decided on the
following in 1897 and for which pre-
MUM was awarded to wit
l. Gray's Elegy.
2. Thanatopsis.
3. Psalm of Life.
1. The Raven.
5. Charge of T he Light Brigade.
6. The Skylark.
Z. The Chambered Nautilus.
s. Maud Muller.
8. Bridge Of Signs.
TO- Burial OF Sir John Moore.
The authors of these poems themselves
are all familiar.
1t seems almost a miracle to us whose
memories extend back beyond the Civil
war to think OF a grandson OF Gen.
Grants fighting under Lee or side by
side with one, the younger generation
cannot imagine as we. what wonderful
change it is. Oh how deep, how last.
ing were those wounds and now how
the wounds are all healed, how those
fierce passions are queled! All amino
stiles are forgotten and forgiven for we
are side by side again under the stars
and stipes while Grant and Lee are
looking down congratulating the north
and south and our whole country upon
being united as never before since that
great conflict which shook this nation to
the very point OF everlasting dissolution.
Let us thank God for this universal out
burst Of patriotism and good feeling even
at this dark hour OF blood-shed and
yielding up of noble lives.
Child brides are becoming more and
more out OF date, as we think about it
Our mothers and grand mothers as a
usual thing met their mates and married
them while still at school and often
according to tradition their first long
frock was their wedding robe" Things
have changed. The girls Of eighteen
today has hardly finished school, seldom
in society and rarely ever marries till
she has tasted the joys of two or three
social seasons. TO be sure, even
with this regime divorces are more COM
mon but then they are less frowned
upon. Even broken engagement with
our ancestors was stigma, but some
times it is blessing in disguise. The
moral then and now is simply to beware
Of impulsive betrotha's. Boys and girls
scarcely out of their teens cannot have
fixity of mind and the chances are that
before the hymeneal altar is reached
both will have seen their mistake. Bet
ter draw back there than to ruin two
lives forever and ever.