The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1900-09-09

much those women be adored Men who
are enlightened never bring themselves into
open competition with Doors for my ladys
favor; and herein lies one of the causes
why so many women wed men who are
unworthy of them: this, and women's
yielding to effrontery and impudence.
Few things in life appear so sad as beau
tiful and brilliant women tethered to
wooden posts of men. Women fitted to
grace the courts of emperors are frequent
ly tied to men who neither of them ever
read ten books. For such women there is
nothing but the mending of clothes and
rocking of cradles, and grief!
Women who wed maybe unwisely as
sumo mournful comfort in rejecting upon
other men whom they might have married.
Mothers as pure as heaven exult when
fame comes to their old lovers, and they
feel that something of and from themselves
fed the fires of intellect and made noble
deeds possible. Yet, uncomfortable incon-
sistency, a woman never wholly forgivcs
a rejected lover for not going to the devil
because she drove him from her side She
is apt to believe that he achieves distinc-
ton to spite her; and that causes exulta-
ton because it is proof that her power is
not passed. She remains in his real life q
force that influences his conduct. There
fore she concerns herself in his rise or
his fall In either case he pays her
tribute.
The strangest mental change in woman
is in that men whose plain goodwill they
doubted before marriage assume in the
afterwhile the semblance of discard
ed lovers faithful STILL That brings
them self-satisfaction, even comfort,
and he is ill-bred and inconsiderate
who would give denial Of such
assumption in terms which would reaca
her who believed him in part inconsolable
One noon there came to a man of many
experiences a boy whom he greeted kind
ly, though the boy gave a name I'M
familiar. The younger observed his elder
closely as If seeking to read him, with
evident difidence, and proceeded to state
that he had come at his mothers bidding.
He then presented a little letter which
briefly begged that for the sake of old times
the man be good to the boy. The sigma
ture was in three names, two of which
startled the man as echo from memory's
ghostly shore. Boy and place Of toll van
ished with the stroke that wiped away
years, the noises of the busy outside fell
into tender music, and on a pile of dead
leaves at the base of a great oak rested
a youth and a maid who had just bound
themselves with plain little ring, pledge
of promises that were to pass with the
morrow. o glorious hour of boyhood's
splendid joy long gone!
Ali it was but dream at best; and be-
ing happiest was soonest DER. Yet in such
a dream to be blest was SO sweet that he
asked no more
The boy-her boy-called him back by
and by, and looking at the youth with a
new interest he said frankly he was very
fond of his mother in the young years.
Very fond? Yes. And still fond of her?
Yes.-A lie that had to be spoken to truth
in the form of that youth. Then the boy
told the man that he was remembered
gladly by the old sweetheart After that
the man would have died rather than tell
the youth the whole truth. Instead. he
took the boy to his heart and was good to
him.
Rarely do women wed men whom they
grow up knowing or to know: a condition