The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-07-06
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lalah at the snakes, but still gentle spring
keeps on flirting and fooling with Ola
man winter and makes him believe she
is in love with him. But she isent. May
and December never mate, nor March
and November. 1t is against the order
of nature We old people can look and
linger and admire, but that is all. we
have sailed down the river and encoun-
tered its perils it's reefs and rocks ana
shoals and qucksands, but, strange TO
say, we give no warning Maybe 1t IS
because we know that warning Will 90
no good; maybe, because misery loves
company; maybe. because 1t is the order
of nature the fiat of the Almighty. verify
the Young people would mate and marry
and launch their boat and sail down that
river if they knew there was Scylla ana
Charybdis at every bend and leVIathahs
and maelstromS and cataracts all the
way down Poor, trusting, suffering "oih-
an. What perils, what trials, what az
hictions does the maternal instinct prlhS
upon you! Close up by us, while WRITE
is a beautiful young mother lingering Ill
the grasp of death-dying that her nrSI
born child may live. There is nothing
more touching more pitiful, more heroic
in nature There is nothing that man
is called upon to endure that compares
with the death of mother In Child
birth.
But there is brighter side-a more
charming comforting picture OF ne
married life domestic life-when the good
mother is a matron, and looks with prlde
upon her children and grandchildren as
they come and go lovingly before her.
What calm serenity hovers over her ma
tronly face. What sweet content, "bal
grateful reSt-rest from her labors, ber
pains her care and anxiety We'll may
she exclaim with Paul: Il have fought
a good fight; l have kept the faith; l
have finished my course. Hencetorth
there Is laid up for me crown of right
eOusness.'
To every lad and lasse there Is a Pc
riod OF life not always thrilling or tragl-
cal but highly emotional and sensation
al. Of course, mean the period Of love
Young love-or loves young dream, when
sometimes runs smooth and sometimes
don't What a luxury it would be to look
behind the curtain and see just what love
has felt and suffered and enjoyed. Such
y Kaleidoscope would have world or
eager lockers for the old are as tascl-
mated with stories of love and courtship
as the 1niddle-aged and young, In look
ing over the daily or weekly paper we
NAV skip the displayed headings OF war
in Seryia or riots in London or cyclones
in Oregon, but any little paragraph thaL
has love in 1t arrests the eye and de-
mands attention. Children so to school
to study books but by the time they are
in their teens they begin to mix Mite
timid, cautious love with their ouhel
studies A sweetheart is q blessed thlhB
for a boy 1t straightens him up ana
washes his face and greases his hair ana
brushes his teeth and stimulates MS an
bition to excel and be somebody. 'eiu
salem! How | did luxuriate and palp1-
ta+a and concentrates toward the first lit
+Ie school girl | ever loved. She was as
nrettv as a pink and as sweet as da19S'
and one day at recess, when NOBODY WAS
looking caught her on the stars ana
kissed her. She was dreadfully frighlen-
cd but not mad on, no. no.
mad. She ran away with p'uS'ie9
on her cheek and more IMAM
once that evening I saw her glance at
me from behind her book and WohueIlllS
If | would ever be SO rash again.
And now. Mr.. Editor, if thousand OF
your patrons peruse these RANDOM mem
cries nine hundred of hem can finish
book. Who has not loved. who has not
stolen a kiss, who has not caught its pal
plating thrill ana felt like Jacob when
he lifted up his voice and wept? ON
Rachel. beautiful and well favored no
wonder that Jacob watefed thy sheep
and then kissed thee, for there was no
one to modest or make thee afraid. mat
memorable kiss IS now four thousand
years old. and has passed into history
as classic and pure, but | have had them
and so have you, dear reader, inst as
sweet and soul-inspiring and never said
anything about it TO anybody. ours was
a mixed school, and every Friday the
larger boys and girls had to stand up in
line aud spell and define. MY sweetheart
stood head most generally. and 50 | was
stimulated to get next to her. and / did
and my right hand slyly found her left
and we both were happy. But time and
circumstances separated us, and both
found new loves-she married another
Teller and was content and so did l. but
neither of us have forgotten the stolen
kiss or that tender childish love that
made our school days happy. But love
becomes more earnest after awhle--more
intense more frantic-the Young man
means business and so does the maiden
Like the turtle-doves In the spring Of
the year. they arc looking around for a
mate This is nature. and it is right
God said. ut is not good for man to be
alone | will make helpmect for him. >
And so he made Eve to help meet the
expenses and that is what q wife ought
to do now, but a good many of them
don't. They help make them but they
don't help meet them. and that is why
the young men have almost Quit marry
ing. The rich girls won't have them
and the poor girls are trying TO keep up
with the rich. and So the tHrtIe-doves
mate more slowly nowadays. Folks need
to love and court and marry with more
alacrity than they do now. It Is not
vanity to say that ] could have married
half dozen nice girls. and my wife
could have had choice Of dozen clever,
prosperous youths as likely as myself
Cupid just roasted around those woods
and shot his arrows right and left Some
times he shoots a young man and then
waits DAYS and weeks before he shoots
the girl he is after This keeps the poor
fellow on the Warmth and frantic and
rampant and Cupid laughs. But he was
clever 10 me. for as near as 7 can Judge
he let fly both arrows at once and
plugged nv girl and me Simultaneously.
and with center shot Ny wife denies
this. but 7 have told If 50 often I be-
lleNe It. There was no Skirmishine on
my part never did shoot with a scat
tering own. Marrying vas rhean in those
DAYS My recollection is that it cost me
only about N5-twenty- five for clothes
ten for ring and ten moro TO tho
preacher. 1t didn't cost ANYBODY else
ANYTHING to speak of, for there We're no
wedding rresents That tomfoolerv
agara or anywhere right away but We
went 10 work. \ month or 50 later we
die take little trim to Tal1ulah Falls
and look Mt the water tumble over The