The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-01-30

Wedding bells have beenj ringing
around here for some timo. Their
music always excite the good people
and everybody talks aboat the coming
uupiiaIs. Mothers, wives and daugE-
ters are specially interested for it is
the bride who has most at stake and ia
about to surrender everything to hes
lover. BIZ; hope is stronger than fear
and the women ell rejoice in il and
wish the good work to GO on. They
dissect and discuss every phase of the
new relationship and crowd the
Church or the home =ha-e .hs kHoi
is to be tied with anxious and eager
interest. The bridal trosseaus aud the
wedding gifts have especial con slider a.
ton and are carefully inspected.
What difference between maa and
woman about such things. What .
difference between my wife and I. It
vas Of small! concern 70 me whether
the bride s,apparel cost . thousand
dollars or q hundred. Just 30 .sae
was dressed in good taste and wore a
few pretty ornaments was emo ugh for
ME. I like to see q pretty, woman
dressed in ~=sy :.AAst you can tell
pretty yell how much of her is clothes
and hou much is Gssn land blood.
Padding and petticoats may fool :
man in a new acquaintance, but O
home girl can't fool anybody. We
see them ride and walk and stand up
as around and we
can measure them up like David Har-
um measured 9 horse. The modern
style Of dress is much more pleasing
to men than the old style Of hoop
skirts and bustles. Nothing is lack
ing now but: to shortea up their walk
ing frocks 80 that they won't drag be-
hind and sweep up the sidewalks with
ali their filth ofs3oigar stumps and
guilds and baateria and expectorated
germs Of expectorated consumption.
When 1 see girls skirt dragging
along I suspect that she is pigeon.toed:
or bex-ankled and wants to, hide it,.
My wife never wore dress that way
in her life for she. wears number
two shoe and steps like q deer,
But it is woman's nature to love
ornament. She cannot help it and it
is no sin. John Wesley tried to cure
her Of it in tho dicipline, but he
couldent discipline about ornaments
and jewelry and other finery is dead
letter. I have suspected that may Be.
he was too hard on his wife about
such things and that is why she quit
him. What miserable time those
women had in the days of, the Puri-
tans when pretty girl had to wear a
plain black dress to Church; home,
made straw hood shaped like coal.
scuttle on her head, and not an ear
ring nor breast pin nor even string
of glass beads around her neck. The
creator adorned the earth with flowers
and studded the heavens with stars.
He gave the birds their beautiful
plumage and taught them to e;ng Ger
our pleasure. There are diamonds in
the mines aud pearls in the ocean and
OF course they were made for women.
We men care nothing about such
things. [ wonldent give ten dollars
for bushel Of them, but my wifegoes
into rapture over them and would give
everything she has not for them, ex-.
cept her children-and may be mo.
Woman is a curious and peculiar
creation. I have been studying :hem
for sixty years,and don't fully under
stand them yet. They are very near
to us and very dear to US, but very
unlike in theirdevotional nature; their
love Of the beautiful; their long suf-
iering under trial and adversity. They
90 willingly and oagerlS to the mar
rage altar when they know that theirs
Is all the peril and theirs to be allthe
PAIN and care am: grief that inevita-
oly comes to wife and mother.
have pondered over all this and if I
was Woman and had only q man s
instincts and emotions I would not
marry any man ppon earth. Its tile
uod given maternafinstinct that per-
suades q aud forces i woman ta marry.
che will launch her boat upon tho
stream and take her chances 20 jump
the waterfalls. She will marry even
.salna. her indignant : a aiis. sfle plead
'nss of her friends. Sk does not
'eaize the force OF this maternal in