The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-02-13
BILL ARP'S LETTER
Wedding Bells Set Barlow Patri-
arch to Eliminating
TALKS OF DOUBLE" BLESSEDNESS
Cites His own Experience and Fur
nIshes an interesting Treatise
on this Most Important
institution,
TALKS OF DOUBLE" BLESSEDNESS

Married and gone. It is the same
old story. Love and courtship. Then
comes the engagement ring and
blessed interval Of fond hopes and hap
py dreams, and then the Lappy day Is
fixed-the ausplcious day that is never
to be forgotten-a day that brings hap
piness or misery and begins a new life
Then comes the license, the permit
of the law which says you may marry
you may enter into bonds. The state
approves It and the law allows 1t, and
it will cost you only dollar and
quarter. Cheap, isn't it? And
yet it may be very dear. Then comes
the minister, and the happy pair stand
up before him and make some solemn
VOWS and listen to a prayer and
benediction, and they are one. In a
moment the trusting maid has lost her
name and her free will, and is tied
fast to a man. Well, he is tied fast
too so 1t is all right all round, reck-
on. but somehow always feel more
concern about the woman than the
man. She is a helpless sort of a crea-
ture and takes the most risk, for she
risks her all.
was Eliminating 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 her home on
this the last day Of the year and going
off to live with man she hasn't known
very long; but have diagnosed him
from his face and features and am sat
ished with her choice. He is a big
hearted gentleman, or else the signs
fail. l wanted to be present and give
them my blessing, but was not well
enough to go-I've got the elephantio'
sis from my toes to my knees, and can
hardly meander across the room, but
I am always interested in the mar
riages of our young people. 1t Is the
most serious business in this life, and
II the peril of it was known before
hand many of the young people would
hesitate to make the change. The
chains Of matrimony and the bonds o.
- marriage are the right words. WheI
men make a partnership they can't ge
along well if they are unlike in dlspo
sition or in moral principle or in
business way, but they can dissolV
and separate at pleasure and try an
other man. A man and his wife ough
to he alike in almost everything. l.
some things folks like their opposite
their counterparts. man with Dlu
ewes goes distracted over a pretty gil
with hazel eyes-I did, and I'm oil
tracted vet when / look into then
though | have been doing that for nit,
four wears. But in mental and em
tional qualities and in tastes and ha
its and politics and religion the
should class together.
I never made any mistake about N
choice of a partner for the dance OF
life hut I've thought of it thousar
times that if Mrs. Arp had known
loved Goldfish and got up by dayDrei
every morning, she would rot have nj
me- It was nip and tuck to get ne
anyhow, and that would have De-
the feather to break the Camels BAG
Well, I'm mortal glad she didn't Kn'
It though / am free to say that II
had known she slept until the seco
ringing of the first bell for breakfs
and was fond of raw oysters, 1t Wot
have had dampening effect upon !
only TG
But I have seen some mighty cleN
people eat oysters raw and sleep Il
in the morning. But still man q
his wife can harmoniEe and comp
mise a good many Of these things,
It Ia a beautiful illustration OF this
see Mrs. Arp cooking Goldfish Tor
and fixing it up so nice with eggs
cream. and 1t is a touching eyidel
Of my undying devotion to her TO
me wandering about the house Ion
and forlorn every morning for an h
or two. and forbidding even the
TO walk heavily while she sleeps. L
Goldfish business comes to me none
from my fathers side, and my mot
put up with it like good, consider
wife, and we children grew up
an idea that it was good I've he
Y of young couple who got married
went off to Augusta on a tour, and
N>feIler stuck his fork into a cod
nall and took bite. He choke
down like hero, and when his
loved asked him what was the ma
reDlied. Don't say anything abou