The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1903-01-30
BILL ARP.
Granddaughter Marries-He Saws Some
Good Things On Marriage to
Young People.
Atlanta Constitution.

ln"friage "as celebrated yesterday.
A granddaughter has found a mate
aud gone off with him. That 10 all
right. 1t is according to nature and
there is nothing to cry about when
the young folks have chosen wisely
and we'll. There is no goodlier sight
in all nature than to see good look
ing, healthy young man, who is
making an honest living standing
up at the alter with a sweet, good
tempered, atfectionate, industrious
girl and the parents on both sides
approving the match. Marriage is
very serious business and my OBJ
| servation has been that those made
among the we'll to do common people
are generally happier than those
made in cities among the families of
the rich. Children raised to work
and wait on themselves make better
husbands and better wives than those
raised in luxury. 1t is mighty hard
for man to please his wife and keep
her in a good humor if she has been
petted by her parents and never knew
q want and had no useful work to do.
She soon takes the ennui or the con-
nlptions or the "don't know what |
WANT and must 60 back to ma.
A young girl who never cleared
up her own room or made any of
her own clothes or helped to nurse
her mothers baby and did nothing
but dress and visit and go to the
theater will never make Il good wife.
The wife and mother business is hard
work. The mother of six, eight or
ten children has seen sights. She
knows what care is and anxiety and
sleepless nights and ono of these
butterfly women can't stand it, One
child will dry her up and two will
about finish her and if it were not
for condensed milk the children
would perish to death like the calves
in Florida, where the COWS don't give
enough milk to color the coffee and
they have to raise the calves on the
bottle.
But our grandchildren arc all
good, hoalthy working stock. We
have raised ten of our own and the
Lord has blessed them in form and
feature and old Agur's prayer has
saved them from poverty and riches.
l have worked and 80 has my wife
| and our children worked and have
held their own and are now helping
US in our old age. [ won't say what
| have done all of these fifty three
years Of married life, but my wife
has made over a thousand little gar
ments with her own hands before
ever sewing machine was brought
| to our own town and she found time
to keep me in plated bosom shirts
besides. l bought the first machine
| that oame--a Grover IL Baker, for
1928. The next, Wheeler & Will
son, for 500. And 80 on down and
now we have Home IL Farm for
$40, which is the best we ever had
1t ls worth mentioning that Howe,
the first inventor, could not get his
machine introduced in this country
for ten years and had it patented ir
England and all the use they had for
it there was to stitch the soles on
boots and shoes.
Yes, our pretty granddaughter has
mated and married and gone. Julie
Smith is now Mrs. Julian Smith
not much change IN her name was
there onl y added the little letter en-"
We gave him cordial welcome into
our family for we have heard nothing
but good concerning him and com
mend our grandchild to the goo(
people of Selma and the good Stat,
Of Alabama, which is our own Geor
gia's daughter. There may the,
rest and live long and prosper.
I am still sick. As the lawyer
say, II living do languish, and Ian
gushing do live" but l am on tn,
up grade and my swollen extremitie
are reducing their compass and m,
wife says it will soon be time to plan
| sweet peas and trim mp her ros
bushes. Two months from yester
day will he the fifty fourth anniver
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