The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1903-02-06
First Of His Grandchildren Finds
Mate and is Gone Off.
IMPORTANT INCIDENT BREAKS RECORD
William ls Still Feeble and says: ~
Living Do Langush, and Lam
gushing DO Live" However,
He ls on the Up
Grade Again.

ty.one grandchildren the first mar
rlage was celebrated yesterday. A
granddaughter has found a mate and
gone off with him. That is all right
It Is according to nature and there Is
nothing to cry about when the young |
folks have chosen wisely and well.
There is no goodlier sight in all ma
ture than to see a good looking, !
healthy young man, who is making an !
honest living standing up at the altar
with a sweet, good-tempered, affection
ate, Industrious girl and the parents
on both sides approving the match
Marriage is a very serious business,
and my observation has been that
those made among the well-to-do COM
mon people are generally happier than
those made among the families Of the
rich. Children raised to work and wait
on themselves make better husbands
and wives than those raised in luxury
It is mighty hard for a man to please
his wife and keep her in a good humor
If she has been petted by her parents
and never knew want and no useful
work to do. She soon takes the ennui
or the conniptions or the don't know
what l want" and must go back to
ma. A young girl who never cleaned
up her own room or made any Of her
own clothes or helped to nurse her
mothers baby and did nothing but
dress and visit and go to the theatre
will never make a good wife This
wife and mother business is hard
work. The mother Of six, eight or ten
children has seen sights. She knows
what care is and anxiety and sleepless
nights and one of these butterfly wo-
men can't stand it. One child Will
dry her up and two will about finish
her. and if it was not for condensed
milk the children would perish tc
death like the calves in Florida, where
the COWS don't give enough milk Jc
color coffee and they have to raise
calves on the bottle
But our grandchildren are all O
good, healthy working stock. W.
have raised ten of our own, and the
Lord has blessed them in form ant
feature and old Agur's prayer ha
saved them from poverty and riches.
have worked and so has my wife an
our children worked and have he'll
their own and are now helping US /
our old age. l won't say what ! nav
done all of these fifty-three years c
married life, but my wife has mad
over a thousand little garments wit
her own hands before ever a SEWN
machine was brought to our town, an
she found time to keep me in platte
bosom shirts besides. / bought u
first machine that came-a Grover
Baker, for S125. The next, Wheel'
& Wilson. for $780, and so on dow
and now we have Home and Far
for $40. which is the best we ever ha
It is worth mentioning that Howe, II
first inventor, could not get his m
chine introduced in Inls country for Il
years, and had it patented in Englal
and all the use they had for it the
was to stitch the soles on to boots al
shoes
Yes, our pretty granddaughter h
mated and married and gone Jul
Smith is now Mrs Julian Smith,
much change in her name was there
only added the little letter n"
gave him a cordial welcome into G
family, for we have heard nothing
gold concerning him and commend c
jgrandchild to the good people OF :
ina and the good state Of Alaban
(which is our own Georgia's daught
Ther9 may they rest and live long a
prosper.
am still sick. AS the lawyers s
81 living do languish, and languish
do live" but 1 am on the upgrade 6
nv swollen extremities are reduc
their compass and my wife says it '
soon be time to plant sweet peas
trim up ner rose bushes. TWO mon
from yesterday will be the fifty-fou
anniversary Of our wedding and
children and grandchildren have pr
ised to gather at the paternal mans
and rejoice together over the Lol
goodness unto US.
But must stop now, for it tires
to write. My daughter who helps
is teaching school and get tired fl
bending over my work. I feel
saying with Byron
"What is wit IS writ.
Would it We've worthier-but my