St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1903-08-22
LOVES YOUNG DREAM
Bill Arp Recalls the Days When He
Wooed and Wor
Thinks Some Girls Too Much In Love
with Their Clothes to Love .
Man-Warns Young Men to
Beware of Trunks.

1t Is now many weeks since the good
st. Valentine told the birds to mate and
the girls and boys to go wooing. st.
Patrick has been out and shook his She
lahlah at the snakes, but still gentle
Spring keeps on flirting and fooling
with old man Winter and makes him
believe she may fall in love with him.
But she isn't. May and December never
mate, nor March and November. It is
against the order of nature. We old
people can look and linger and admire,
the river and encountered its perils, its
reefs and rocks and shoals and quick
sands, but, strange to say, we give no
warning. Maybe it is because we know
that warning will do no good; maybe
because misery loves company; maybe
because it 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 II they knew there was Scylla
and Charybdis at every bend and levi
athans and maelstroms and cataracts
all the way down. Poor, trusting, suf-
fering woman. What perils, what trials,
what Affections does the maternal in
stinct bring upon you? Close up by us.
while write, is beautiful young
mother lingering in the grasp of death
dying that her frstborn 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 a mother in childbirth.
But, there is brighter side-a more
charming, comforting picture of life
married life, domestic life-when the
good mother is a matron, and looks
with pride upon her children and grand
children as they come and go lovingly
before her. What calm serenity hovers
over her matronly face. What sweet
content, what grateful rest-rest from
her labors, her pains, her care and anxi-
ETY.. Well may she exclaim with Paul:
the faith; have finished my course.
Henceforth there is laid up for me
crown of righteousness =
To every lad and lassie there is Pc
Rod of life not always thrilling or trag-
ical, but highly emotional and sensa-
tional. OF course, mean the period
Of love-young love-or loves young
dream, which sometimes runs smooth
and sometimes don't What luxury
it would be to look behind the curtain
and see just what love has felt and suf-
fered and enjoyed. Such Kaleidoscope
would have a world Of eager lockers, for
the old are as fascinated with stories of
love and courtship as the middle-aged
and young. In looking over the daily
or weekly paper we may skip the dis
played headings of war in Servia or
riots In London, or cyclones In Oregon,
but any little paragraph that has love
in it arrests the eye and demands atten-
ton. Children go to school to study
books. but by the time they are in their
teens they begin to mix little timid,
cautious love with their other studies
A sweetheart is blessed thing for a
boy. It straightens him up, and washes
his face and greases his hair and brush
es his teeth and stimulates his ambition
to excel and be somebody. Jerusalem!
How l did luxuriate and palpitate and
concentrate toward the first little school
girl ever loved. She was as pretty as
a pink and as sweet as daisy, and one