The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1903-01-21

grand daughter AaD W." mao ano
,ne off with him. That is all right.
I, Is according to nature and there is
.otbine to cry about when the young
toIks have chosen wisely and well.
There is no goodlier sight in all nature
han to sec a good looking, healthy
roupg man, who is making an honest
living standing up at the altar with a
.reet. good-tempered, affectionate, in
austrious girl and the parents on both
sides approving the match. Marriage
&c very serious business, and my
observation has been that those made
! among the wcll-to-do common people
are generally happier than those made
IN cities among the families Of the
,;cb. Children raised to work and
rait on themselves make better hus-
hands and better wives than those
,a;sed in luxury. 1t is mighty hard
for a man to please his wife and keep
her in good humor if she has been
I petted by her parents and never knew
a want and had no useful work to do.
/ She soon takes the ennui or the con-
1 niptions or the 'sdon't know what I
want and must go back to mo. A
1 Young girl who never cleaned up her
own room or made any Of her own
! clothes or helped to nurse her moth
/ er's baby and did nothing but dress
1 and visit and go to the theater will
/ uever make a good wife. This wife
1 ssd mother business is hard work.
! The mother of six, eight or. ten chill
! dren has seen sights. She knows
| wha. care is and anxiety and sleepless
4 nights and one of these butterfly wo-
] men can't stand it. One child will
dry her up and two will about finish
her and if it was 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
4 the calves on the bottle.
4 But our grandchildren are all of
good, healthy working stock. We
have raised ten of our own and the
Lord has blessed them in form and
feature aud old Agur's prayer has
saved them from poverty and riches.
have worked and so has my wife
and our children worked and have
held their own and are now hoping US
lin our old age. I won't say what I
have done all Of these fifty three years
of married life, but my wife has made
goyer a thousand little garments with
aher " hands before aver a sewing
machine was brought to our town and.
she found time to keep me ic plated
bosom shirts besides. I bought the
FIRST machine that came-a Grover &
Baker, for Sl25. The next, q Wheeler
rs Wilson, fer 500, and 80 on down
and now we have q Home and Farm
#for $40, which is the hes: we ever had.
III is worth mentioning that Howe,
fhe first inventor, could not get his
machine introduced in this country
ten years and had it patented in
England and all the use, they had for
y there was to stitch the soles on to
boots aud shoes.
Yes our pretty grand daughter has
fnated and married and gone. Julia
pnith is now Mrs. Julian Smitb-no.
much change in her name was there
pnly added the letter en-" We gave
Salm a cordial welcome into our fam
Nv, Tor we have heard nothing but
y0od concerning him end commend
2uf grand-child to the good people Of
9elma and the good state of Alabama,
talch is our own Georgia's daughter.
aefe may they rest and live long and
prosper.
| am still sick. AS the lawyers say,
l living do anguish, and anguish
@ns 90 llve,' but / I'M ON the upgrade
53na my swollen extremities are reduc-
|ng their compass and my wife says it
pm soon be time to plant sweet peas
}no trim up her rose bushes. Two
ronths from yesterday will be the
8i'S'fourth anniversary of our we'd
AS'ng and the children and grand-chil-
s}fen have promised to gather at the
@A'einal mansion and rejoice together
ISer the Lords goodness unto US.
but l must stop now, for it tires mo
81 write. My daughter who helps me
teaching school and I get tired from
}endlog over to my work. feel like
d''lng with Byron
What is writ is writ.
ssI'ould it were worthier-but my Wis
ions fit
Less acknowledgements and the glow