The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1903-01-14

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name and her free will and is tied fast
to {; man. Well, he is tied fast. too.
SO it is all right ali round, reckon,
but somehow | always feel more con-
Germ about the woman than the man.
She is a helpless sort Of a creature
and takes the most risk, for She risks
her all.
| was runinating over this, for
there was marriage going on at our
GOOD friend Sam Jones house, and
their pretty daughter, Laura. was
changing her name and home on this
the last day Of the year and going oil
to live with d man she hasn't known
very long: but l have diagnosed him
from his face and features and am
satisfied with her choice. lie is a big
hearted gentleman, or else the signs
fail. wanted to be present and
give them my blessing, but WAS not
well enough to go--1;re got the
e!epllantiosis from NY toes to my
knees. and can hardly mcander across
the room, but ! am always interest
ed in the marriages Of our young
people. 1t is the most serious
business in this life. and if the peril Of
it WAS known beforehand many of the
yourg people would hesitate to make
the change. The chains Of matrlmony
and not bonds OF marriage are the
right words. When men make d part
nership they can't get along well II
they are unlike in disposition. or IN
moral principle or in business ways.
but they can dissolve and separate at
pleasure ard try another man. y man
and bis wife ought to be alike in al
most everything. In some things folks
like their opposites-their counter
parts. \ man with blue eyes goes dis
tracted over a pretty girl with hazel
eves-I did. and I'm distracted yet
when l look into them, though I've
been doing that for tifty-fOur years.
But in mental and emotional qualities
and in tastes and habits and politics
and religion they should class together.
/ never made any mistake about my
choice OF partner for the dance OF a
life. but I've thought OF tia thousand
times that if Mrs. Arp had known l
loved goldfish aud got up by daybreak
every morning, she never would have
had me. 1t was nip and tuck to get
her. anyhow. and that would have
been the featheEto break the canel,s
back. We'll, I'm mortal glad she
didn't know it. though am free to say
that # had known she slept until
the second ringing Of the first bell for
breakfast and was fond Of raw oysters,
it would have had a dampening effect
upon my ardor for a few minutes: only
few. But l haze seen some mighty
clever people eat oysters raw and sleep
late in the morning. But still man
and his wife can harmonic and COM
promise a good many OF these things,
and it is beautiful illustration of
this to see Mrs. Arp cooking goldfish
for me and fixing it all up SO nice
with eggs and cream, and it is
touching evidence Of my undyiag de-
votion to her to see me wandering
about the house lonely and forlorn
every morning for an llouror two: and
forbidd:ng even the cat to walk hea1l-
Iy while she sleeps. That Goldfish buSl-
ness comes to me honestly frcnl my
fathers side. and my mother put up
with it like a good, conSiderate wife,
and we children grew up with an idea
that it was good. I've heard Of
young couple who get married and
went of to Augusta on a tour and the
teller stuck his fork into goldfish ball
and took bite. He choked it down
like a hero. and when his beloved
asked him what was the matter, re-
piled: Don't say anything about 1t,
Mandy. but as sure as you are born
there is something dead in the
bread.
Well we can make compromises
about all such things as habits and
tastes, but there are some things
that won't compromise worth Il cent.
If a girl has been brought up to have
Il good deal Of freedom, and thinks 1t
no harm to 90 wa!tZing around with
every gay Lothario who loves to
dance, and after she gets a fcller of
her own. wants to keep at it and have
polluted arms around her waist, she
had just as we'll sing farewell to con-
jugal love and domestic peace. for it
is against the order OF nature for a
towing husband to stand it, and he
oughtn't.
And now another busy year has
like the water that has
passed over the dame-gone never to
return. it has carried many friends
along with it and left sad memories
in the household. but ON the whole it
has been a good year to US all and
Providence has been kind.
Now is the time to look back and
review the past, us did cid Janus, for
whom January was named. He was
yhe porter, the gate keeper. Of heaven.
and had two faccS-one to look t2 X
md tle other forward into the myS'e-
.ious future. Numa Pompilius gave
lin his name and his high Office, for
le was next III power TO .Iupitor. lie
added two months to the calendar and
;alled one January foG Janus and the
,ther February fer the mother OF
Mars Until Thea there were but eight
months Of forty-six days each. Numa
ldded two more. which gave them
,hirty-six days each. and January was
he fourth month and remained so for
more than two thousand years. April
vas the first month and remained so
intil two hundred years ago. Why it
vas changed cannot understand, for
pril is much more like the beginning
II a new year than January. April |
ONES from apcrio: to cpen-thc time
yhell the earth opens and the grass
ONES up and the flowers bloom and |
he birds sing. liut the names Of al
nnSt everything scent to cOmctrOm that |