The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1904-09-14

seem to have such horror Of their
children ever being brought into ac
tual contact with the practical side Of
life. Ninety y-nine times out Of hun
drcd Maud S wealthy father begun life
as poor boy. He clcrkcd for some.
body; he saved up little money and
got an interest in business for him.
self he married the girl he loved, and
they wen. to housekeeping in an hum
bic cottage in back street, where his
wife helped him TO cconomizc and
work, and they were happy as happy
could be. 1t was an experience out Of
which they brought nothing but good
but the very idea that Maud should
go through it is appalling to Maud
father, who sets up a kind of diamond
sunburst and opera box standard for
her suitors, and expects them to eth.
er put up or shut up.
80 he turns cold and unfriendlv
.yc on j lck, who modestly tells him
that he has good situation, with a
chance of being taken into the firm 10
year or two, and sternly remarks
that when be married he was able to
support his wife in the style in which
she had been accustomed to live. He
forgets that he took his bride to a cot
tage, while be expects Jack to install
Maud in fine mansion. lie forgets
that his wife, in their early days, did
her own cooking, and made her own
frocks, while he demands that Maud 8
husband shall provide her with re-
tinue of servants and millinery from
Paris.
1t is not to be denied that the pa
rental attitude towards poor Jack is
pretty hard on Maud, and enormously
increases her chances Of being an old
maid. If she is not to marry, exccpt
in defiance of her family, any man
who cant provide her with all the
luxuries to which she has been accus-
toned, it narrows down her chances
to few gilded youths who have been
fortunate enough to inherit money,
and. alas, there is never enough of
these In any community to go around.
Moreover, such is the inconsistency of
fortune it frequently happens that
Maud, who bestowed her hand on
young Dives in her youth, because he
could, give her rutflss and champagne
to which she was accustomed, finds by
middle life that he is quite unable to
give her plain bread and butter, while
Jack has reached that pith of success 8
IN business that he could feed his
family on humming birds tongues
and peacock brains, if they happened
to relish these dainties. This is not
phase of the subject that Maud 8
father considers very often, but it
happens so frequently that the choice
In marrying rich young man or
poor, har l-working young man almost
reduces itself to tle question of wheth.
er you would rather De we'll off while
you were young or have plenty and
comfort for middle life and old age.
and before Jack is sent about his
business it is just as we'll to try to
solve this conundrum.
Maud's father says, and truly, that
he has nothing but her happiness at
heart. He believes that she will be
perfectly miserable, living in less
style, with fewer clothes and palmer
surroundings than she is accustomed
to. That depends on Maud. If she
is the kind Of girl whose heart is cut
on the bias and frilled in the middle,
and whose soul will go to Paris when
she dies, she will never be indiscreet
enough to fall in love with man who
isn't strictly eligible from worldly
point Of view. She is just as incaps-
bile OF adoring q man without big
bank account as she would be of fall
ing in love with man without o nose.
But the girl whose true heart beats
just as faithfully and warm under vel
vet as it would under linsey wolsey,
whose eyes, unblinded by wealth and