Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1904-01-16

evil, as the hOllhnu ulheS haNS houo
a rescued ocean bed the home for the
Dutch queens subjects, Is for parents
10 train up their children to regard
marital engagement as almost as sa-
cred as the marriage itself. Daughters
and sons should think deeply and long |
before they plight troth to any one. 1t
Is to teach them that one OF the most
beinous of sins Is to trihe with the |
human heart. 1t Is to teach them that
every young woman is compromised |
for life who has been guilty OF engag- |
ing herself to different young men
"iust for fun" Such actions on the
part of any young lady are less the sign
of mental and physical grace and social
popularity than of dcpraved Female
heart. Yet almost everywhere we see
the future tare harvest. which shall yet
he gathered in the divorce courts. now
being planted in the poisonous seeds OF
engagements hastily made and just rs
hastily broken.
A Hint to Parents.
once heard of young lady who
used TO boast that she was engaged 10
three different young men at the same
time. She had in her possession three
different engagement rings. After
awhile she dismissed all three sultors
and married a fourth. Do you won
der that after such perfdies her mar
ried life was unhappy? Untrue to her
fiance. of course she was untrue to her
husband. A divorce scandal a Few
years later was the result. Her fatner,
a noble Christian man of the west, as
a result felt himself disgraced and re-
signed his pulpit, for he was minis
ter His life was to some extent wreck
ed. as well as hers. You say such
course as that Is an extreme case! Or
course. But all evils should not be
despised because they are not mon
strous evils. The little, seemingly
harmless firtations during summer va
cations or at a church picnic or in the
street car or concert hall are all divorce
seed paintings. You cannot trife with
human affections In youth without be-
ing I'm danger, as an iconoclast, OF
smashing the marriage shrine when
you are middle aged. Let parents be
careful with whom their children asso-
ciate. Let them beware of what they
are allowed to say TO others ana What
others are allowed to say to them. Ii
IA all well enough to talk about the
vaunted freedom Of the American boy
and girl; but, for my own part espe-
cially in reference to the promiscuous
association of young people and the
careless promises they are allowed TO
make. | think they have altogether too
much freedom.
Another divorce preventive: Flnan-
cial expenses in the great majority OF
homes should be curtailed and greatly
diminished. The income should not be
made to meet the outgo. The outgo
should be contracted until there Is
sufficient margin left for unexpected
expenses, such as sickness or loss OF
work or financial reverses. The prov
erb says, "When poverty comes In al
the door love flies out Of the window"
That is not true when all members are
systema ticaly trying to do their best
But when husband and wife go upon
the suppostion that marriages are
made in heaven and then. with blinded
eyes. run needlessly into debt there Is
nearly always marital friction. Tbe
wife blames the husband, the husband
the wife. Perpetual friction, then, on
account of the money question ignltes
the divorce fires. Then the family altar
goes up in Satanic blaze.
Another divorce preventive: The pu'
rficatiou Of the American press, botn
In book form and In periodical and In
the morning newspaper. The pestifer'
ous trash which every day and every
week and every month, like winter
blizzard. Is flung into our faces by the
snowstorm of the printing press is
enough TO destroy the healthy heart
throbs of any young person who Is al
I.
speaking against good publications.
but bad publications. Go to almost
any bookstand that you see and open
some of the books at random ana READ.
There we find the authors make their
heroes out of bad men and their nero
ines out of bad women, with here ana
there a redeeming white spot to offset
these black characters. Broken mar
riage VOWS. "Chide Harold" indecen-
cies deceitful wives, deceiving men
these move as an ever changing kalei-
doscope before the fascinated eyes OF
the Young readers There the boy ana
the girl learn TO call crime Respectable
and q mans dishonor free lance OF
gold" A bad book worms its way into
the moral vitals and fatally poisons the
heart. The way for good people to keep
pure and to prepare themselves for a
Christian marriage, which will never
he broken this side or on the other
side of the grave, is for them 10 1--we
with good people. They must work to
make men good. They must positively
refuse to associate with the bad,
whether that bad Is found In fiction OF
in real life. When the newspapers Oh
the United States made heroes out OF
! the Chicago bandits, they placed q
nremium on crime. When bad book
anlorjzas and glorifies the broken mar