The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1900-06-04
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| of profit:
"would you mind. old man" and rust
ling of skirts
Told that a woman was near.
..ro tell me- she said, 1.-The secret OF
In making themselves so dear?"
Yea, yea, my young woman. seek out no
plan
Save plain honor and duty:
| IT'S this will make you the dearest to man
/ And LONG Outlive ali beauty
/ She gave me a look intense. but mild,
And left with the innocent faith of a
child.
would you mind. old man. to tell me IN
The prettiest girl you know"
Came from a man in the strong bloom Of
Who had not tasted of woe
yea. yea. my young man, full soon you
will learn
| Beauty is only skin deep.
And never for this should young man
Lest he learns too soon to weepr'
/ He gave me a slow mysterious smile
And left like one of a sudden run wild.
They soon came again-this self-same
stood hand in hand before me.
But before their story they could de-
clare
Their acts We're quick to show me
That she was his wife-his own loving
| His ideal and his beauty:
/ She held him fast and smiled that her net
! Had been-"honOr and duty
And there's glory enough for this odd
man
To think IT was he who gave her the
plan.
I am never To he made believe that
! love IS only n passion Of youthfulness,
/ when there Is love-nOt a fad. know
/ that It was not so in the case of old-tiTne
ra,pIa for + am sure that INV good wife
/ is dearer. sweeter and prettier in my
( eyes every day we I've
/ Sometimes / almost conclude that this
will not he 50 with the young generation
! / have said this much in order that
| might suggest TO this progressive age \
J most important line IN which they have
been neglectful. There IS all sorts Of cul-
ture now in vogue-in fact. culture is Z
/ fad of fads-but If there has ever been a
/ suggestion to establish a school wherein
/ the young are taught the art Of gaining
and retaining the affections I have not
/ heard about it. There are plenty Of
/ schools to teach the voune idea the
/ art of making themselves elegant, grace
| full. charming in converse and even in the
I industrial line they have tutorage to give
I them the art OF housekeeping. etc. but
the art Of knowing the weak point ID
/ attack or the strong front to present in
/ catching and holding the human affec-
t
/ in an age when all the tendency is 10
depend upon the institutions of culture
| from the Kindergarten - the diploma II
the professionals shape the style and
standard OF living.
II is my notion that the thing Of
/ affection should flow spontaneous, but
/ culture has taken such q hold that Moth
/ ing can be left to nature. We must walk.
/ talk. eat sleep and drink as culture dc
tates or we are old fogies. coarse and 50
on. Now the thing To DO is 10 hustle =
little in the field OF affection Development
+ We are getting behind in this special mat
( ter and there should at once start =
I movement 20 make it a subject of special
/ effort IN the culture Of The times Every
/ old person knows that the thing called
affection is not what Il used TO be There
/ may be broader. more universal feel
4 ins of brotherhood, but there IS less Of
! the personal affection from one TO an
! other. The good women Of the olden
times who Iugged their children with
/ them to their work and spread q quilt
I on the ground for them 10 play upon
/ while she performed her duty, knew moth
/ ing of the great science of culture IS
/ taught now from the kindergarten o tho
| college, but she builded q love that was
/ personal to her. intense and lasting. Tho
kindergarten and the college may smeer
the whole world with 4 brotherhood idea.
| but affection is lost IN its generality. 4
I persouaI affection, personal God, per
sonal mother. a personal father and broth
/ ers and sisters who waited in hunger
| together for the good parent 20 come 10
| the little home with the days earnings.
there DEVELOPED the best type o. humanity
/ the world has ever known and a love that
| was next to gOdlinoss. There is no such
/ affection nor any such reverence cOmpre-
/ heudcd in the culture Of these times. from
/ the kindergarten to the college. There
I l1ay be an abundance Of pottenesS, but
/ the brotherhood idea spreads over too
| much territory TO give any taste Of the
/ genuine old-fashion love as It used 70
be concentrated. The trend is to raise tho
/ whole mass 10 4 machine level and leave
/ personal affections 90 take care OF them
I selves.
Perhaps have said too much upon this
4 line unless l could have said 1t stronger
| and made il palmer. What me and Brown
wants is for them TO get up some techni-
] cal schools to cultivate the girls IN me
art of making themselves dearer." We
| would Ike 10 teach girl class on some
/ speciality and this IS about the only va
/ cant field We know. Until We do set this
opportunity We shall rest upon the advice
| that "honor and duty" will bring better
results than anything we know that can
/ be named in three words.
But there are all sorts Of ways OF man
/ aging folks. ] would ike 70 give you a
hint of the way Mrs. Brown has maneu-
vered 10 manage my old friend. In order
/ to do this / must ask you TO remember
! that a short while back 1 told about a
/ tree falling and MASKING the seat that
/ Brown had Just vacated. and of how hs
/ considered himself as killed by the incl
dent. so narrow was his escape. He re
| manned dead dead i GOornaI 50 far as
/ doing any work or making any effort was
concerned. OF course under these circum-
| stances his wife had 10 take the reins
and has had to Go everything, even the
peddling to town.
l mention this that readers may know
that my old friend has returned to life
! and ali from the management OF a good
old woman. On day before yesterday. 1
noticed nat my wife and Browns wife
had their heads close together more than
common and i noticed that they laughed
under their bonnets yesterday morning
when Mrs. Brown mounted the spring
wagon and drove off TO town with tho
marketing. Brown mOped around all day,
lstless and dead. once and awhile no
managed 10 side up to the safe and get
himself a lunch, but mostly he was Z
corpse, especially If anything was to do.
AT last the usual hour for the market
WAGONS return came, but Mrs. Brown did
not appear Brown still lay q corpse bat
ne had moved To where he could squint
his eve up the road whenever he found
that no one was watching him. and I
knew that he was getting nightly reES-
less over his wife'S absence, exceedingly