The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-05-23
WHICH IS THE PAINTING sExa

There Is no action that has not its re- bound. The pendulum of the cycles of eternity swings this way and that. How | far so ever 1t move in this direction. that far 1t must also so in the opposite
 Time out of mind woman has been considered to be swayed by her emotions so intense and uncontrolled as to domi- nate woman's reason her health and her | religion. If woman is disappointed in
 love. she pines away. 90 declares prevail | because of the petty matters over which | her sex are supposed to squabole. she
 has a headache If she has fright or is subjected to tense nrve strain-as, for , instance, witnessing the triumph of a feminine rival-she faints dead away There is. however. no record of girl
 fainting. during her marriage ceremony. Indications multiply into a countless throng that the pendulum of world cycles begins to turn again In brief. 1t looks
 tiona1-yea. even the fainting-sex. A
 story is told in recent newspaper dis patch which has ex xcited the profound sympathy of womankind toward man be- cause of his delicate nervous organizat on. There was a young university man. He had record as an athlete and all round person of courage. He had never been
 laid low by football or college dinner. He had not lost consciousness even under the strain of final exams. He finished his course of study and followed the time honored injunction of college presidents
 to go forth" He went forth. He met for her mother told her he was a most
 desirable match. Safely the university
 athlete passed the nerve breaking ordeal
 of proposing and the often times yet more trying one of being accepted.
 The wedding day was fixed. It drew on apace. In the midst of her troussea u
 making the fair bride that was to be at
 tended love luncheors and gave little farewell matinee parties to the. chums of her girlhood. She went through 1t all without the turning of q hair or the quiver of an eyelid and on her wedding
 morn marched to the altar radiant. tri- | umphant and steady nerved as the fam fly clock.
 But the bridegroom, alas! He, too, gave l the usual round of bachelor dinners. the | ater parties and suppers. but somehow | the nearer the fatal hour for taking the | matrimonial vows drew the more shaky i in his mind he became. The nerve tissues ] dure the strong strain of a church we'd | ding.
 The university athlete however, braced
 himself with manly determination to do | or die. He went to the altar with his | best men on each side to give him the ] support of their psychological atmos- | phere. But apparently even that was not l strong enough Trembling, pale and ag- itated the university athlete met his fair bride The ceremon-- began. Then it was | that the delicate masculine orkanization. overWrouhgt, collapsed. gave way alto i gether. The athlete bridegroom wavered, | reeled, and before his best men could put their arms under his to hold him up- ! right, he fell prone upon the floor in a | faint. The stage fright produced in him | by the situation of standing there with | a hundred women watching him through their opera glasses while he tried to get
 a ring out of his pocket and put it upon | his brides finger overcame him. He was lifted tenderly. carried to the chancel. | famed and sprinkled and piled with res toratives till he was able to look wildly | around him and exclaim. Where am I?'' 1 Happily however. he presently revived | sufficiently to be sure enough" married. Now that man has made the beginning | of fainting during the marriage ceremo ony. we may expect the like untoward hap | pening to overwhelm the sensitive nerves ] of other men at any time.
 i Josephine Hunter.