The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-07-20
Bill Arps


good st. Valentine told the birds
to mate and the girls and boys to
60 wooIng st Patrick has been
out and shook his shelalah at the
snakes, but still gentle spring
keeps on flirting aud fooling with
old man winter and makes him
believe she is in. love with him.
But she isn't. May and Decem.
Der never mate. nor March and
November tits against the order
of nature. We old people can
look and Iinger and admire, but
that sail. We,haFe sailed down
the river and encountered its pefils.
its reefs and rocks and shoals and
quicksands. but, strange to say we
give no warning. Maybe it is be-
cause we know that warming will.
do no good; maybe beoanss s4sis
the order OF nature, the fat of the
Almighty. Verify the young peo 4
pie would mate and marry and
launch their boat and sail down
that river if they knew there was a
Scylla and Charybois at every
bend and leviathens and mael.
stroms and cataracts all the way
down.
Poor, trusting. suffering woman.
What perils, what trials. what
Affections, does the maternal in
stincts bring upon you! Close up
bysus, while I write, iss beantifnf|
young mother lingering in the
grasp of death-dying that her
frat born child may live. There is
nothing more touching, more
heroic in nature. There is moth.
ingthat man is called upon to
endure that compares With the
death of a mother. in childbirth
But there is a brighter side, al
more charming. comforting pic.
ture of life, when the good mother
is matron, and looks with pride
upon her children and grand
children as they come and go Low
ingly before her. What oaIm
serenity hoyers over her matronly
face. What sweet content, what
grateful rest-rest from her labors,
her pains, her care and anxisty |
Well may sheexclaim with Paul,
81 have fought a good fight; II
have kept the faith; 1 have finish
ed my course. Henceforth there
is laid up for me crown of right.
eousneas.2 -
To every lad and Iassie there is /
a period of life not always thrilling
or tEagical, but highly emotional
and sensati: nal OF course, 1
mean the period of love, young
love-or loves young dream,
which sometimes runs smooth and
sometimes don't. What a luxury
1t wonld be to look behind the cur.
tain and see just what love has felt
'and suffered and enjoyed. Suoh
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 look
ing over the daily or weekly paper
Wsmag skip the displayed head
ings of war in Servia or riots in
Bondon or cyclones in Oregon, but
Hny little paragraph that has love
IN it arrests the eye and demands
attention. Children go to school
to study books. but by the time
they are in their teens they begin
70 mix q little timid, cautious love
with their other studies A sweet
heart is a blessed thing for a boy.
1t straight, ms him up and washes
his face and gfeases his hair and
bushes his teeth and stimulates his
NuAOithOA ~ cAOol anu O6 6Ome-
body. Jerusaleml How 1 did
fuxurate and pelpitate aud concen.
frate toward the fret little school
girl 1 ever loved She was as
pretty as pink and as sweet as
daisy, and one day at recess when
nobody was looking. 1 caught her
on the stairs and kissed her. She
was dreadfully frightened but not
mad. Oh no, not mad. She ran
away with bushes on her cheek,
and more than once that evening 1
saw her glance at Eae from behind
her book and wondering if 1 would
ever be so rash again.
Aud now, Mr. Editor, if thous.
and of your patrons peruse these
random memories. nine hundred of
them can finish up the chapter