Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1899-04-16

New York, April 15.-AnlOnS our
readers rot a few are discovering that
cur aim is to deal with the problems OF
everyday life. This Sunday Morning
/ Talk is intended for girls who, unpre-
pa1ed in mere ways than one, are
thinking Of marriage while they are
yet too young.
a friend OF mine, q part OF whose
work it is to tie the nuptial knot, tells
me that ne is some timzs obliged TO re-
fuse TO perform the ceremony on ac-
count of the youth of the parties ap-
| plying. Indeed said he, mot long
! ago girl of seventeen wears OF age
came to be married, aud having lied to
me in answer to one .cf my questions,
went away indignant with me because
refused to scform the ceremony More
than once" added he, 4 have declined
to become a third party in the unwise
desire of persons too young to enter in
t.. a contract Of which they know SO
littIa"
What did that savendean-year-Old girl
who could tel a lie on the eve of so I'M
portant q ceremony as marriage know
about love? What do thousands of
these young girls with emotions
aroused by novel reading, and who cam
not datect he smile of honor from the
smile of the knave, know about the
passion of real love. Girls 'who are nc
more prepared to enfer upon tha voyage
CT matrinIony than a cabin boy is fit
ted to take command of a ship?
Preparation for marriage includes
many things Among them are good
health, suitable age, practical knowl-
edge CT household matters, a desire tC
rear chiliren, ard mos important OF
all the presence Of that greatest of al
powers in the universe, the power Of
love
NOT MOONSHINE SENTIMENT.
This deepest current in a human be
, ing is love. The grandest passion of {
, human s0Ul is love. The most exalted
theme of r0em or of prose is love. Thu
, Hottest inspiration OF painters touci
: is love. Lave is the deepest 1e2ponst
of one soul to the deepest longing o
another soul
. But much that is called love is no
such. Many men and women have neve
t felt the sway CT this hottest touch upOl
their hearas, fer love is not the pass
? ing emotion Of an hour in which a fac
! Of beauty leads one on, nor an unhol
= desire that would storm to ruin the f0f
: tress of anGther's brightest hopes, bu
al enlGtiOn that lakes hold CT sou
q, and lifts it, as if on the bosom OF
\ mighty current and bears it on and o
/ to joy; that passion which knows n
7 wealth, no creed, no station, but which
d like a swollen stream of the huma
e 4eart, bears everything alcng with /
g Love is life's noblsst theme. Othe
0 things also give happiness in life, Blu
S as 4 highway to su6limest joy non
r equals this Love never touched lif
5 but to bless 1T. Whenever the love i
O one soul finds a response in the Low
# Of ar.5sher soul these two lives ar
v richer, trGer. r3bler on account of tn
. experience. But how true it is that to
o many times Maria es are made in is
!. norance Of what such love is, and ur
S happiness is sure to fellow. Thousand
n icf young girls could be saved frol
= wars of despair if instead of being il
), 1iuenced by something as less atron
. than love as the rirple5 on the surfaC
- of the water are less stTong than tt
/ mighty CUl-ens beneath it they woul
ii wait before taking this step. Bu
a instead. they unwisely so to an alt1
o not of love but CT sacrifice, an altar {
le which are sacrificed some Of the gran,