The Brunswick daily news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1903-1906, 1904-12-11

And when widow decides she needs
another helDnneet she sizes up the can
/ didates with a mighty cold, calculatln'
eye first, while a wldower acts as II
be was afraid the supply would run
out before he got a chance to get one.
To my mind, there's one time, and
one time only. for marriage. It's when
you're young an IN love. so young an
SO much in love that nothing else mat
ters at all. A second marriage is like
o set Of false teeth--a more or 1ess
passable substitute for the first accord
ing to fls. hut dreadful hard to write
poetry about
You're powerful set against such
things, It seems, complained Daniel
Now, want to know what you'd DO
in case you was left? Wo9d1t you
turn an marry again ?"
Maybe would Maybe would,
DAHL Nathan sighed man an a
moth has a habit sometimes Of a cut
tin loose from everything an flying
plum in the face OF Providence.
DO you think | ought to marry
Abby Bell. tbeH?'
'Unlf- perhaps. She amt so old but
she might be older An she's proba.
bly, 80 unselfsh that she'd marry YOU
for your own good. Yes. Abby could
likely scrape up enough romance to be
happy herself, an she'd be SO perfect
~ proud that she had got a man, after
all, that she'd pamper you up like a
young JORDAN that l judge is what
you're looking for
Now, Nathan" Daniel leaned for.
ward and put his hand on his friends
shoulder-"as man to man, as the man
in light to man in the darkness,
is it the marriage? Can You, in
the face Of your knowledge and expert.
ence say soto mel"
Nathan cleared his throat mlskily.
"Comrade, don't you gather from
what I've ever said to you that Zerelda
hasn't been good companion to me.
I've talked mighty trilin about my
wife, which is thing no man ought
to do, but I've got the savin' grace
to be ashamed of It. When she left her
home to come out here with me it
was sore trial to her. She thought
heap Of her mother, an she bid her
good-by realizin' that she could never
hope to see her again. She Jest put
her hand in mine and set her face 10
the west, an II she ever looked back,
like Lots wife, never knowed IT. We
didn't have much to come to- Only s
Inc "a hin in aIoo,frt I,,,f I,s..n ,1c,.s
fed it into a shinin palace, an it was
not long until there was a curtain at
the window, a flower in the garden an
babe In the cradle-three things to
make man happy"
We've raised four children an bur.
led two, Dan1, an il ever a woman
done her duty by her family 1t was her
it's only lately that she's had any time
to devote to the cause of sufferin hui
manity in general. A housefnl of chill
dren will keep a woman out Of lots OF
devilment. Dan1, / use tobacco. fish
good deal an play cards whenever
| get the chance; while zerelda tends
church an prayer meetin. feeds
preachers and delegates, wrestles with
the demon rum, an pretends to sancti-
fication; an now that come to think
OF il, | reckon, after an, it's simply diff
ferent ways we have OF enjoying our
selves, an she's as much right to hei
way as have to mine An I'll &c
further, and remark right here. that
if any other man would say the things
of my wife that Pye said of her. I'd
bust his head open. | would"
Nathan, said Daniel hoarseIy, "Ifs
--it's--a-goin' to be Abby"
The two old men clasped hands, and
looked long and darby into the waters
OF tho race, that, like the stream OF
life, could never turn backward.
The two sycamores alike bound to-
gether swayed and bent low in the
breeze, appearing with outspread arms
and rustiing foliage to be whispering
benediction.
a golden leaf fluttered loose, and,
turning over and over fell gently into
the water. and the ripples spreading
in slowly widening concentric circleg
seemed at last, like life and love, 10
reach from shore to shore.-Allen G.
Garrigue in Indianapolis Journal.