Okolona messenger. (Okolona, Miss.) 1900-current, 1903-07-15

but then Il Is not always eXhller'
ating to converse with people who
say only eyes" and "Why, GER
tainly."
Tonight the the bone Of conten-
ton was the self-made man.
"There isn't such 3 thing" she
declared. 'tLet me show you how
this self manufacturing business
appears when you get it into a TO-
Gus : We really have not much to
say so about what We are going to
do and what We are Lot going to
do. We are washed on shore by
the waves chance, and because we
we're furnished beforehand with
roots predetermined to strike into
the soil, and because the soil hap
pened to suit the roots, we stick
where we are tossed, make q good
~ growth and cry out to all behOl.
ders : HSee what l have done by
my lone SELF" II the soil doesn't
happen to suit our roots, we shriv
ell instead OF flourish we tap each
passerby on the shoulder and
whisper to him that this is the
Lords doing"
He interrupted her with an i'm
patient movement and the woman
laughed lazily.
"Not very ~hattering, eh I"
eft is not true"
"True enough and growing
truer every day" Take this ter
Eibly tormented question of matr1-
mOny. How many men and wO!
men out Of q hundred couples do
you suppose sought each other de-
liberately Z They just happened to
meet and happened to marry. II
the marriage turns out we'll, why,
it is their doing ; if they drift into
the divorce court, the Lord gets
the credit for the whole Of it
stmysteriOus Providence"
She laughed at his disguised old
ErOWn.
"YOu are like all the other wO-
men Of today" he remarked. "Ev-
en- while you stand before the altar
you have the divorce court in clear
perspective"
81 am not standing before the
altar" she cut in dryly, ''and
don't expect to be for q long, sweet
while. What is more, the women
who are fOcking to the divorce
court aren't the women Of today.
They are the women OF yesterday
and last year. The sight OF OuI
freedom has made them feel their
letters"
"DO you honestly believe all
that q"
"What Z"
"That the unmarried woman has
q better showing in life than the
married women"
eighty per cent Of the divorce
suits are brought by women"
''That proves nothing. Breach
OF promise suits are also brought
by women"
The literary woman shrugged
her shoulders.
cit isn't human nature to know
when it is well off,"
"Then what about divorce q"
"tJust so ; better be q dog and
sleep on the dOOrmat, than q di-
vOrced woman. But you and
know that there are horribly I'M
happy married wOmen-lots Of
them"
"There are unhappy women in
walks Of life"
saGranted. But when the wealth
or grows too foul for the single
woman she can blow out the light.
The mother must live for her chill
dren."
The man Of means got up and
kicked the smOldering log in very
8AVVmy
"YOu claim in all sincerity, that
the self supporting woman is the
happiest on the average Z"
"YOu have said"
"That even If she loved the man
who loved her, a woman would be
unEise to marryf"
sob, il she loves him she had
better marry him. Not because it
will he the best thing for her, but
because If she doesn't she will 60
through life convinced that she has
missed the biggest thing In It. II
she is familiar with that saying Of
George Elliot's about the folly Of
expecting trees Topped Of their
lraxeat branches in youth to be
anything but gnarled and ugly in
heir old age, she will easily grow