The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1901-01-30
BILL ARP'S LETTER.
Arp Discusses Marriage in Interesting
Manner
atlanta Constitution.
Manner,

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(, no paternal instinct. The true wo-
man loves to be mother. Sho is not
content with one child. She wants
another and another and another.
I've children double her love and
therefore her happiness aud finally
when she has no mora little ones to
::Sldie, her maternal love laps over to
her grandchildren, and she would
claim them If she could. Mrs. Wilcox
wrote lamentation on the "Decay Of
the Maternal Instinct in New Eng
land asserting that the women up
Shere did not wish for children and
there was hardly household that had
more than one or two-just enough to
inherit the fathers estate.
When that decays everything else
decays. A town or city or a state
without ohildren--a natural compile
ment Of ohildren-is on, the down
grade. To arrest OF impede the COM,
ing Of children is violation Of the
Law Of God.
The earth must be peopled by hon
orable marriage. Milton says "Hail
welded Love-true source Of human
offspring" And again he says Of
marriage, "It is the sum Of earthly
Bliss" Osher cynical old poets make
eaars C {; aud call il lottery" "An
institution where those who are out
wish to get in aid those who are in
wish to get out" Some Of our mod.
ern poets ask the question, SIS mar
Siage failure?" and discuss. it in
prose and poetry. Well, suppose that
it is, what is 20 be done about it.
Who is going to atop it2 How shall
the earth be peopled when we oil die
of? What kind Of incubators do they
propose to substitute?
Emerson says call the world loves
o lover" and that is why the good
people of every community flock to
witness marriage ceremony. Every
body loves the happy couple then and
wishes them joy. Will he be kind to
her, and there ia smothered thought
in every mother mind.
DR.. Gaines Of the Agnes Scott In
stitnte gave us discourse the other
day on the Importance Of educating
our girls. It was deeply entertaining
and.convinoing. How comes it that
six times as much money is invested
in giving our boys a high education as
there is for our girls. Who are our
educators at home and in our public
schools. Sixty-six per cent. of all
the teachers in Georgia are women
and they should have the best oppor-
tunities to fit them for their vocation.
Who teaches the children until they
can go to school. The mothers-the
patient loving mothers all over the
land, while the fathers are in the field,
the counting-room, the workshop, or
maybe at the club or the billiard table.
Why should the female colleges bs
neglected by the State2 Who are do
ing the most good in the school roGs,,
the Church, tho Sunday Schoat or by
the fireside in the establishing and
perpetuating morality aud virtue
among the children2 Is it the boys
who come from college or the girls
who cannot go, but have to be content
with such education as they can get at
home.
Well, the good dnctor gave us food
for thought and when he closed / felt
a wish that I was rich so that might
enable every good girl to get higher.
education than she can get at home.
When will We have q legislature that
will have heart enough to give to wo-
man all Of her errights? The marriage
able girls ought to form trust and
vow to marry nobody until their rights
were recognized. If it wasent for the
maternal instinctthey would.
BILL ARP.