The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1901-01-30
BILL APRON WEDDING BELLS
Discusses Marriage in Interesting
Manner and Speaks ofthe Trous-


around here for some time. Thci
music always excite the good pcopl
and everybody talks about the comm!
nuptials. Mothers, wives and daugh
tcrs are specially interested for it is tn,
bride who has most at stake and il
about to surrender everything to he
lover. But hope is stronger than fca
and the women all rejoice in it aut
wish the good work to 90 on. The,
disscct and discuss every phase OF the
new relationship and crowd the churc
or the home where the knot is to be
tied with anxious and eager interest
The bridal trOusseau and the wedding
gifts have especial consideration and
are carefully inspected. What diff
ference between man and woman about
such thinge. What q difference be-
tween wife my and |. 1t was OF small
concern to me whether the BRIDES APP
| parel cost a thousand dollars or Il hun
dl ed. Just so She was dressed in good
taste and wore a few pretty ornaments
was enough for me. | like to see a
pretty woman dressed in IL way that
you can tell pretty well how much of
her is clothes and how much is flesh
and blood. Padding and petticoats
may fool man in new acquaintance,
hut a home girl can't fool anybody.
We see them ride and walk and stand
up and sit down and run around and
we can measure them up like David
Harum measured horse. The modern
style of dress IS much more pleasing
to men than the old style of hoop skirts
and bustles. Nothing is lacking now
but to shorten up their walking frocks
so that they won't drag behind and
sweep uo the sidewalks with all their
filth of cigar stumps and guilds and
bacteria and eXpectoratcd germs of cX-
perforated consumption. When see
"A girls skirt drag sing along | suspect
that she is pigcon-tocd or boX-ankled
and wants to hide 1t. My wife never
wore dress that way in her life for
she wears number two shoe and steps
like Il 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 the discipline, but he coudent
discipline about ornaments and ewelly
and other iinery is dead letter. |
have suspected that maybe he was too
hard on his wife about such things
and that is why she quit him. What
Il miserable time those women had i'm
the days Of the Puritans when Il pretty
girl had to wear a plain black dress to
church.; a nome made straw hood
shaped like coal scuttlc on her head,
and not an ear-,ing nor breast pin
nor even Il 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 sing for our pleasure. There
are diamonds in the mines and pearls
in the ocean and Of course they were
made for women. We men care moth
ing about such things. | wouldent
give ten dollars for bushGl of them,
but my wife goes into rapture over
them and would give everything she
has got for them, except her children
and maybe me.
Woman Is n curious and peculiar
creation. have been studying them
for sixty years and don't fully under
stand them yet. They arc very near
to us and very dear to US, but very un-
like In their devotional nature; their
love of the beautiful; their long sui
fcring under trial and adversely. They
so willingly and eagerly to the mar
ria2e altar when they know that theirs
is all the peril and theirs to be all the
pain and care and glief that inevitably
comes to a wife and mother. | have
pondcred over all this and if | was
woman and had only a mans instincts
and emotions | would not marry any
man upon earth. 1t is the God given
maternal instinct that pcrsuades and
forces a woman to marry. She VIII
launch her boat upon the stream and
take her chances TO jump the water
falls. She will marry even against her
judgment and the pleadngs of her
friends. She does not realize the force
of this maternal instinct, but it impels
and controls her. My little grand
daughters are perfectly happy with
their dolls. They play with thu BY
day and sleep with them by night. x
little four-year-o old said to inc last night,
" Ganpa, don't take dolly away from
me ill | get fast asleep" Little bows
tliC IothlDS dpOuI uOlIS. ncy want
balls and drums and iire-crackcrs and
guns something that will make a
noise. "A man loves woman and
marrics her, but there is not a particle
of paternal instinct influencing him.
The young mother hugs her first born
to her bosom aud is happy. The
young father takes the advent of the
child as a matter Of course, but not of
choice. In course of time the little
one grows into favor ami he bccomc cs
attached to 1T, and even proud of it,
but there is no paternal instinct. The
true woman loves 20 be mother. She
is not content with one child She
wants another and another and an
other. Two chillren double her love
and therefore her happiness and finally
when she has no mole little ones to
fondle, her maternal love laps over to
her grandchildren, and she would claim
them if she could. Mrs. Wilcox wrote
a lamentatlon on the Decay of the
Maternal instinct IN New England .
asserting that the women up there die
not wish for children and there wa.
, hardly household that had more thar
one or two-just enough TO inherit tn.
fathers estate.
When that decays everything els,
decays. "A town or city or q Stat
! without children--a natural complc
8 ment of children--is on the dow,
q grade. To arrest or impede the com
y ing of children is violation of the Ia,