The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1903-05-20

eess sutEeac acfef more e1mp0reantG GhaE
woman should be pleased in her hus-
band than a husband should be satis-
fed with his wife, and if either one
10 to have the advantage OF picking
the other out il should be che. Nor
in tho end would this be any the less
to the man s advantage, for the wife
makes the home atmosphere, and a
happy and cheerful and contented
wife viii make 4 pleasant home. Tho
woman who has gotten the husband
she wanted, the man who came up to
her ideal and fred her fancy and who
is fore yer patting himself on the back
for having captured mats.monial
prize, is going to move heaven and
earth TO please him, and il 7 were &
man I would take the woman who
wanted me in preference to the wo-
man 4 wanted, every time. IL is so
much easier to be pleased than to try
TO please. IS
Perhaps no one realizes how much
the shiftlessness, the extravaganza
and the illtemper Of women is & quiet
revenge they take on society, for hay-:
ing forced them. to marry the man
who asked them, instead Of the man
they would haze asked, ifthey had
been permitted the honest expression
of-their hearts.
There Isl, too, pathetic side 20 this
:tnatterin the increasing number or
lonely. old maids, women who are too
fine andsSrue to give their hands where
the highest love Of their hearts could
not go also. We see beautiful and
accomplished women refusing offer
after offer Of marriage and passing
into spinsterhood, and We know only
TOD we'll that they are the victims OF q,
superstition that in this way ,:s as
cruel as the custom that makes the
Indian widow barn herself on her hus-i
band funeral pyre, for underneath
the women's old-maidenhood is the
romance of blighted love. Deep.
down in their hearts, throttled by.
shame and held down by convention
is the love for some man who has been
TOO dull or two careless to see that he
he was passing By . treasure. Prob.
ably he only needed a word to call his
attention to it, probably he would.
have been only too glad 10 clasp it TO
his heart, or he may have been only
TOO much Of q coward TO dare TO claim
IL for his own, but NO word was SPOKEN !;
The man naaaed on and life Was
wrecked
That men have small taste and less
judgment in picking ont wives the
divorce oourts abnndantly chow, and
The chances afe that women would dis
play more aoulnen. When q ;widower
with six children warts 20 marry again
he generally picks ont q Eighty yonng'
creature with pink and white COM
:plexicn. Very likely she marries him, !,
for his offer may be the best thing in:
sight. but che would never on earth
pick him outfit sbe had the proposing
to do. Her taste ,wonld run .l % Johnny
Tvostep and she would leave her. ei. i
.derly suitor IS the middla.apad "a.
man who Hould mo- ,er his Oaildfan
and make his. :,r, s !, an,,v. IA ..c,,,
Portable and bring peace % him, in-
assad d of misery al and diaoord. when
Tom Poorman gets married al ia aalsals
the silliest and .yainaak and. fI;sbt;aat
girl Of hia aec ua;ntance. ibnt iistie
Miss Frivolity. WHO s. AFRICA him an, ,ai, 1
Keeps His nose ON tte erindstona 81 4 9ha @
balance Of His life, would have known i;rlt
better than u have nronoaad 'foss :, 81, q,
impeonniops slerk heraell. she would Il, !,