The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1903-07-09
BILL ARP.


and The girls and boys TO go woolnS,
ST. Patrick has been out and shook MS
5helai2h at the snakes, but still gen
tie spring keeps On flirting and fool
SIG with old man winter and makes
him believe she is in love with him.
But she isent. May and December
geyer mate, nor March and November.
e is against the cider Ct nature. We
Did people can look and linger and ad-
clire, but that is all. We have sailed
down the river and encountered It's
oerils, its reefs and rocks and shoals
and QUicksands.s but, strange 10 say,
We give no warning. Maybe 1t is pc
cause We know chat warning viii 40
no good; maybe, because mlSeiy iCVes
company: maybe, because it is the Or
de- Of nature, the fai Of the Almighty.
Verify the young people woUld mate
and marry and launch their boat and
sail down that river if they knew there
vas a Scylla and Charybdis at every
bend and leyiathans and maelstt oms
and ~cataracts all the way down. Poor.
trusting, suffering woman. WHAT
peri!s. what trials. what aIi!ct!ons
does the maternal instinct bring upon
YOU. Close up by US. while l write, is
3 beautiful young mother lingering IN
the grasp of ~death-dying hat her
frs. born child may live. There is
nothing more touching. more pitiful,
more heroic in nature. There is moth
ing tnat a maj is called upon to en-
lure that compares with the death or
q mother in childbirth.
But there is a brighter side-a more
comforting picture OF lie
married life, domestic life-when tie
good mother is a matron, and looks
with nride upon her children n
grandchildren as they come and so
lovingly before her. What calm se-en-
ity hovers over her matronly face.
" hat sweet content. what grateful
rest-rest from her labors, her pains.
her care and anxiety. Well may she
exclaim with Paul: II have fought a
good fight: l have kept the faith; l
have finished my course. HencefoEtn
there is laid up for me a crown Oh
Righteousness
To every lad and lassie there is a
period of life not always thrilling or
tragical, but highly emotional and sem
s~ational. OF course, l mean the PERIOD
OF love-young love-or loves young
dream. which sometimes u n smooth
and sometimes don't. What a luxury
It would be to look behind the curtain
and Sc just what love has felt n SUI
fered and enjoyed. Such a kaleioo-
scope would have a world Of eager
lockers, for the old are as fascinated
with stories Of love and courtshlp as
the middle-aged and young. In look-
ing over the daily or weekly paper we
NAV skip the displayed heading OF Wal
in Servia or riots in London or c!-
clones in Oregon. but any little para
graph that has love in it arrests the
eve and demands attention. Children
20 to school tos tudy books, but by the
time they are in their teens they begin
to mix a little timid. cautious love
with their other studies. A sweetheart
is a blessed thing for a boy. II
straightens him up and was2es MS
face and g~eases his hair and crusaes
his teeth and stimulates his amoition
10 excel and be somebody. Jerusalem:
How ! did luXria;e and palpitate ana
concentrate toward the first llttle
school girl / ever loved. She was as
Dretiy as a pink and as sweet as a
daisy. and one day * recess, when no
BODY was locking l caught her en- the
stairs and kissed her. Sac was uread-
fully frightened. but not mad. Oh. no;
not mad. She ran away with Dlushes
on her cheek. and more than once tnat
evening | saw her glance at me o
behind her book and wondering II l
would ever be sc rash again.
And now. Mr.. Editor, il a thousand
of YOUR patrons perusc these random
memories, nine hundred OF them can
finish I'D the chapter from their own
unwritten book. Who has not loved
who has not stolen a kiss, who has not
caught It's palpitating thrill ana leit
like Jacob when he lifted up ms voice
and wept? Oh. Rachel. beauti1ul anu
well favored, no wonder that jacob
ystered thy sheep and then kissed thee.
for there was nc one to modest or make
thee afraid. That memorable KISS IS
TOW four thousand years old, ano mas
passed into history as classic n pure
but I have had them, and so nave you
dear reader, Just as sweet and soui-in-
spring, and never said anything about
Il to ANYBODY. Ours was a mixed school.
and every Friday the larger boys n
girls had to stand up In line and spell
and define. My sweetheart stood head
most generally, and so was stimuiat.
ed to get next to her, and did, and
my right hand slyly found her lett.
and we both were happy. But time and
circumstances separated us. and we
both found new loves-she married
another Teller and was content. and 30
did l, but neither Of US have forgotten
the stolen kiss or that tender childish
love that made our school days happy.
But love becomes more earnest a!Ier
awhile--more intense, more frantic
the young man means business and 80
does the maiden. Like the tu~rtfe-doves
in the spring Of the year. they are
looking around for a mate. This Is ma
ture, and it is right. God said. 1T is not
good for man to be alone: will make
a helpmate for him." And so he made
Eve to help meet the expenses. ana
that is what a wife ought to do now,
bu+ o good many of them don't. They