The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-07-12

valentine told the birds to mate and the
girls and boys to go wooing. st. Patrick
has been out and shook his shelalah at the
snakes. but still gentle spring keeps on
flirting and fooling with old man winter
and makes him believe she is in love with
him. But she isn't. May and December
never mate, nor March and November. 1t
is against the order of nature We o'd
people can look and linger and admire, but
that is all. We have sailed down the river
and encountered its perils It's reefs and
rocks and shoals and quicksands, but.
strange to say, we give no warning. MAY
be it is because we know that warming
will do no good; maybe, because misery
loves company; maybe because 1t is the
order of nature, the fat of the Almighty.
Verify the young people would mate anu
marry and launch Lneir boat down tiial
river if they knew there was Scylla anu
Charybdis at every bend and levlathans
and maelstroms and cataracts all the way
down Poor trusting, suffering woman.
What perils, what trials, what at1letlons
does the maternal instinct bring upon YOU
Close up by us. while write. is Deautl-
full young mother lingering IN the grasp
of death-dying that her first born emu
may live. There is noth'"~ -" toucn-
ing, more pitiful. more heroic IN nature
There is nothing that man IS eailed upon
to endure that compares with the deatn u
a mother in childbirth
But there is brighter side-a more
charming, comfortable picture of me
married life, domestic life-when the good
mother is matron, and looks with PRIDE
upon her children and grandchildren as
they come and go lovingly before her.
What calm serenity hovers over her ma
tronly face What sweet content, what
grateful rest-rest from her labors, her
Mains her care and anxiety. Well may
she exclaim with Paul: Il have fought
a good fight: / have kept the faith;
have finished my course. Henceforth there
is laid up for me a crown OF righteous
ness"
To every lad and lassie there is period
of life not always thrilling or traglcal,
but highly emotional and sensational. of
course. mean the period of loye-young
love-or loves young dream, which some
times runs smooth and sometimes don I.
What luxury it would be to look behlnu
the curtain and see just what love mas
felt and suffered and enjoyed. Such
Kaleidoscope would have a world OF eager
lockers. for the old are as fascinated with
aged and young. In looking over the daily
or weekly paper we may skip the dis
nlaved headings of war in Servia or riots
in London or cyclones in Oregon, but any
little paragraph that has love IN 1t arrests
the eve and demands attention. Chlidrch
on ta school to study books, but by the
time they are in their teens they begin TO
mix little timid, cautious love with their
other studies. A sweetheart is blessed
thing for a boy. 1t straightens him W
and washes his faces and greases his nalr
and brushes his teeth and stimulates his
ambition TO excel and be somebody. Jeru-
salem! How / did luxuriate and palpi-
tate and concentrate toward the hrst mt
lie school girl 1 ever loved She was as
pretty as a pink and as sweet as oaisy'
and one day at recess, when NOBODY was
looking / caught her on the stars ana
kissed her. She was dreadfully brighten
el but not mad Oh, no. not mao. ohs
ran away with bushes on her cheeK, ana
more than once that evening ! saw her
glance at me from behind her DOCK ane
again.
And now, Mr.. Editor, If thousand OF
your patrons peruse these random men
cries. nine hundred of them can nnlsh
nm the chapter from their own unwrltten
stolen kiss. who has not caught ITS pal
n;tating thrill and felt like Jacob when
he lifted M his voice and wept? OH
Rachel beautiful and well favored, no
wonder that Jacob watered thy sheep
ond then issued three, for there was no
one tn modest or make thee afraid. That
memorable kiss is now four thousand
vaars old and has passed into history
90 classic and pure but have had them,
and so have you. dear reader, just az
sweet and soul-inspiring, and never SAID
ANYTHING about it to anybody ours was
a mixed school, and every Friday the
Iaroor bovs and girls had to stand up IN
line and spell and define. Ny sweetheart
stood head most generally, and so ! was
stimulated to get next to her, and ! did,
and NV right hand slyly found her left,
and we both were happy. But time ana
circumstances separated us, and we both
found new loves-she married another
Teller and was content, and so did l, nut
neither of us have forgotten the stolen
Hiss or that tender childish love that
made our school days happy. But love
hecomes more earnest after awhlle-more
;ntanse more frantic-the young man
...sa,s business and so does the maiden
lie the turtle-doves in the spring Of
tLo year they are looking around for
mate This is nature. and it is right.
Cod said. ct is not good for man to be
alone; / will make a helpmeet for HIM.
And so he made Eve to help meet the
a,,nanses and that is what wife ought
to do now, but good many OF them
don,t They help make them. but they
don't help meet them. and that IS why
the young men have almost quit marry larry
mo The rich girls won't have them.
ana the poor girls are trying to keep up
rad The rich, and so the trutle-dove,
mate more slowly nowadays Folks need
to love and court and marry with !. more on,
alacritv than they do now. II IS no.
r 10 saw that l could have married
half dozen nice girls. and my wife
could con- have had choice of a dozen clever,
prosperous youths as likely has as m mooas
Cupid Just roasted around ,n rost Game '
and shot his arrows right and left. some
times She he shoots young man and then
waits days and weeks before ne Shoots
the girl he is after This keeps the poo,
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