The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-09-18

thing about Il to anybody Ours waf
a mixed school, and every Friday the
larger boys and girls nad to stand ar
IN line and spell and define Ms
sweetheart stood head most generally
and so / was stimulated to get next Il
her. and did. and my right hand slylJ
found her leftand wo both we're hap
py But time ard circumstances sep
arated ne, and we both ftvnd new
loyes-she married another Teller ant
was content, and 50 did I. but neither
OF US have forgotten the stolen ksi
or that tender childish love that mad,
our school days happy But love be
comes more earnest after awhile
more intense. more frantic-the youns
man means business and so does the
maiden. Like The turJle.doyes in The
spring of the year. they are loohnf
around for a mate. This Is nature
and It is right God said. 1T is MOI
good for man to be alone; / will make
a helpmeet for him And so he made
Bye to help meet the expenses, ant
that Is what a wife ought to do now
but a good many Of them don't They
help make them, but they don't hell
meet them, and that is why the younl
men have almost quit marrying. Tht
rich girls won't have them, and the
poor girls are trying to keep up with
the rich, and so the turtle-doVes mate
more slowly nowadays tolks need to
love and court and marry with more
alacrity than they do now. 1t Is not
vanity to say that / could have mar
ried half a dozen nice girls, and my
wife could have had choice Of dozen
clever, prosperous youths as likely as
myself Cupid just roasted around
those woods and shot his arrows right
and left. Sometimes he shoots a young
man and then waits days and weeks
before he shoots the girl he is after.
This keeps the poor fellow on the war
path, and frantic and rampant, and
Cupid laughs. But he was clever to
me. for as near as / can Judge he let
fly both arrows at once and plugged
my girl and me simultaneously, and
with a center shot. My wife denies
this, but | have told it so often be-
lieVe it, There was no skirmishing on
my part. l never did snoot with
scattering gun Marrying was cheap
in those days. My recollection Is that
it cost me only about S45-twenty-hYe
for clothes, ten for a ring ana ten more
to the preacher 1t didn't cost any
body else anything to speak Of, for
there were no wedding presents. That
tomfoolery wasn't invented. We didn't
go to Niagara or anywhere right away,
but we went to WORK A month or %
after we did take little trip to Tai
lulah Falls and look at the water tum-
BILE over the rocks, but that didn't cost
but few dollars and made no sensa
ton outside the Family. My thought
full wife had enough nice clothes To-
last two years when married her, and
they were long afterwards cut up and
down for the children, and there are
some precious fragments hid away in
the old trunk now. The Old trunk, and
of common size, was sufficient then for
a travelling wardrobe Ior lady OF the
land. My father and mother and two
children made a journey by sea to
Boston with one trunk and a va!ise
and came back to Georgia by land. in
a carriage; but not long since saw
a delicate female travelling with two
trunks four times as large and ribbed
with iron and fastened with three mas
sive LOCKS, and still she was not happy
Oh, my country! That girl was zoo
much in love with her clothes to love
man, and nobody but fortune hunt
er would dare to marry her. Young
man. beware of trunks!-BILL ARP
in Atlanta Constitution.