The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-09-03

CITY 0VKIC1AL bARBWs
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sGATrLc, SUNDAY, SEPT. =.
LOVE AND \ COTTAGD.
'sBeside q country road. on . sloping
I'M, lives . farmer In the house his
father owned bsfor& He has . daughter
who Skins the milk and makes the beds
and goes to staging school at night. In
the meadow hack Of the house wood
chuck hiss dur It's hole and reared .
family in it, humble home. Across the
sallsy. only = mile away. another farm
e lived. He has . son. who plows thu
felde ana dees the chores and goes to
6tnging school At night OF course. be
1oes not let the Etri 60 home alone. and
In the spring. when singing school y
out, hs visits her on Sunday eve. II the
eiri had not lived % near. the boy would
Nave faneied another GIRL about the
sams ags who also went to singing
scheel. Back Of the second farmers
house . another woodchuck hole. and
woodchuck home. After year or two
q osurtship the boy ana Girl are mar
RED - their parents were before. and
they build another house nearby and
ssttle down. and 20 the world moves
oAs
XAls u the romance-all there n Of
romance--in most Hives. TIE story 10 a
true d suburb ana oity ~ Il n OF the
rural districts. When the temperament
e the subjects b suitable to the condi-
ton there h happiness. provided the
temporaments are adapted TO each
other. Il II q fortunate thing for those
who % easily ana happiness. I, is such
= scene az makes men imagine that
there WAS once = good old time" when
people were coutentes. lived within their
means and knew no care.
This picture 10 true 30 far a. the out
lines are concerned even today. Indeed.
q Il rather the rule than the exception.
Hut contentment does not come with
the cottage. nor II happiness 70 be found
within the horizon 10 be seen from It's
clematis-covered porca. Few men or
women ind the terminus Of their crav-
ings at the entrance to costag.. There
may be temporary iuiI. but II Il one
of tho great evils Of the nervous actsv-
ity OF the nineteenth century that there
must be something TO be achieved. an
Unsuitable thirst for something not pos
sessed and which thirst IL only intensi-
died as the qualification Of Il seems more
remote.
II Is mere fortunate for the young
man or the young woman contemplating
masrimony that they should be in a
measure tired out with the search FOR
satisfaction OF The inteliec, before the
marriage takes place II IL well tina,
both should learn how practical life is.
and that the sole end IL not marriage.
There IL in the quiet Of domestic life a
satisfaction and rest which becomes
very sweet after the exeitemeu, ana the
wearsress % labor fer the attainment Of
some object. This h proved b. the
greater happiness which comes past,eu-
larry 10 women who have for a few
years been compelled 10 earn their own
living Il is no less sweet 10 those who
have learned that the glamour Of hove II
not lasting and that adsptahllisy 20
cempanioashsp 81 st far mere ifnTor-
tanee than the temporary ecstasy which
II supposed 10 he love. To = great ex-
tent love does not cosae from rartic-
uiar affection for particular member
OF the ether sex II r. a temporary emo
ton On the par; ~ the person Ia love
and could be As readily transferred 10
any other easecs did the conditions
make II convenient
or course. this does not mean that
true Affection which GENES grssn mutual
kindlIness harmony 81 taste and alspe.
sssscn. and Personal agTeeahlen~sS 80
the other. That rsay be matter 20
slow growth. IL saay evolve wttaasit
passionate howe IN rsseede II. bat Pas
sianase love must die out unless {. Is
followed by these conditions
The ecurtship and the marriage de-
scTsbed by the writer from whom ~
have - fre~fy quoted may ~ harry n
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