The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1904-07-20
POINT PLEASANT MASON COUNTY, WEST VIRGINIA, WE

girls had to stand up in line and
spell define. Ny sweetheart stood
head most generally and so I was
stimplated to get next to her, and
/ did. any my right hand slyly
found her left. and we both were
happy But time and circumstan-
ces separated us, and we both found
new loves-she married another
fellow and was content and so did
i, but neither of us have forgotten
the stolen kiss or that tender
childish love that mads our school
days happy. But love becomes
more earnest after awhile-more
intense. more frantic-the young
man means business and 80 does
the maiden Like the turtle.doves
in the year. they are looking around
for mate. This is nature. God
said. "It is not good for man to be
alone; 1 win make helpmeet for
him And so he made Eve to-
help meet the expenses; and that
is what wife ought to do now,
but a good many of them don't.
They help make them, but they
don't help meet them. and that
is why the young men have almost
quit marrying. The rich girls
won't bave them and the poor girls
are trying to keep up with the rich,
and so the turtle-doves mate more
slowly nowadays. Folks need to
love and court and marry with
more aiacriiy than they do now.
1t is not vanity to Say that 1
could have married half a dozen
nice girls. and my wife could have
had choice of a dozen clever, pros.
porous youths. as likely as myself.
Cupid just roasted around those
woods and shot his arrows right
and left. Sometimes he shoots a
young man and then waits days
and weeks before he shoots the
girl he is after. This keeps the
poor fellow on the warpath and
frantic and rampant, and Cupid
laughs. But he was clever to me,
for as near as 1 can Judge he let
fly both arrows at onoe and plugged
my girl and me simultaneously. |
and with a center shot My wife
denies this but have told it so |
often I believe it. There was no |
diminishing on my part. 1 never
did shoot with scattering gun.
Marrying in those days. Ny
recollection is thatlit cost me only |
about $l5-twenty fiye for clothes, |
ten for a ring and ten more to the
preacher. 1t didn't cost anybody |
else anything to speak. of, for there
were no wedding presents. That
tomfoolery wasn't invented. Wei
didn't go to Niagara or anywhere
right away, but we. went to. work.
A month or so later we did take a
little trip to Tallulah Falls and
look at the water tumble over the
rocks but that didn't cost but
few dollars and made no sensation
outside of the family. Myl
thoughtful wife had enough nice
clothes to last her two years when
L married her and they were long
afterwards out up and out down
for the children, and there are some
precious fragments hid away in the
old trunk now.
The old trunk, and of oommonl
size, was sufficient then for a tra-
Yelling wardrobe for the lady ofthe
land. My father and mother andl
two children made a journey byIl
sea to Boston with one trunk and a
valise. and came back to Georgia
by land in carriage. but not long
since ] saw a delicate female ira.
Yelling with two trunks, four times
as large, ribbed with iron and
fastened with three massive looks,
and still she was not happy. Oh,
my country! That girl was too
much in love with her clothes to
love man, and nobody but for
tune hunter would dare to marry
her. Young man. beware of
trunksl
I never knau man mood Co.