The Crittenden record. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1904-1907, 1905-11-24


By all thy treasured hopes of heaven
Deal gently with my own dear child
And now, with a view Of giving
directions to your thoughts, allow me
to offer some suggestions, precaution-
airy and advisory
Let there be no faint on your aTec-
tons, no mercenary traffic In the sane
tuary Of your heart. All honor to the
women who make their own way in the
world, rather than live life with
man for the sake Of support. Money
and family cover up a multitude of
sins; they have 10.
To many parents and daughters there
has been an irresistible potentialty in
these qualifications Of a sutton. | know
1t is counted silly thing TO marry for
love, but she who marries without love
and reduces marriage to a mercenary
contract, degrades marriage. degrades
herself and inflicts an irreparable out.
rage on the man she marries.
Commercial matrimouy is an evil
peculiar 10 our times. The gold fever
is epidemic and the death rate is appal-
ling. Society today pays homage TO
the golden calf. Mothers place their
daughters upon the social auction block
and offer them To the highest bidder
And how many young women there are
today who turn what Is pure away and
sell themselves 10 the man who is vii.
ling to pay for his victim!
Many women feign to love a rich /
man, who, II he were poor. they would |
positively hate. Can ancestry or
wealth cover up mental imbecility or
moral baseness? Can money nav a |
noble woman FOR the absence Of that
generous love OF manly heart. that |
alone can supply the deathless warnings /
1f her nature. smooth the roughc,, /
paths Of human life. wrcathe rainbows
around is darkest clouds, fling roses |
IN rs desert wastes. dry up sorrows |
1itterest tears, make ufc's heaviest /
burdens light, sustain in hours Of sick. !
hess as with a giants power. and |
tnally soothe the dying pillow and load |
her departing spirit with sweet |
lencdiction.
No Gold cannot buy happiness
The desire 10 have a home Is com. |
ncndablc. and. while one may find
many a scene Of sweetest relations In
PALACES Of prosperity, yet there are
many places where wealth an,iriapte,
very wish, and yet where a skeleton
more grim than death haunts the Gun.
'oard and an ache sharper than
assumptions tooth gnavs az the
cart
Never marry a man 20 reform him.
.omc young women imagine that
iilc Wickeinc,s is sort u spice in
young mans he You will find the
abii after the wedding day Ia be- any.
hing bat pleasant spice.
How many alliances have We seen
celebrated amid music. lowers and cn.
lusiastlc congratulations uf friends
here the presence u spcrtcr fol.
WED The haplc,s twain from the alter
b snrruw, hcar,achc. disaster. divorce.
aath. Arm In arm they walked to
be- alter she pure. innocent un,ls.
rcting, be- soilci by sin. habiiua,cd'
evil a stranger o. rcal love. they q
rumisc b. love. honor and cherish {
'ch other A fcv months past. Der. v
Bps a year or two. the spell b. h-ut.
b, thrpp'r bride aWakcs On the crush.
~ fact that her husband b. not th,'
an tyr fancy pictured him She
.ulgh, her love would win out against /.
IS bad habits. conquer bis sinful in. 4
l'gcnccs, but now. when her chains
In not BE- urokcn, she wake, up Co. d
cr dclusion and her sorrow. homo
lasted, heart broken and life ruined
She iancicd fairy palace and I
'und a prison Instead ~ dclirb, In
il home she found only limbo la
Alas Tor the woman on whose a.,i /.
ais the light and rests the burden ofI
dunkaris wife a burden that Is all
fountain. pondcrous world In H. Is
rushing hcayincss t. that woman !
cart !,
Ono II the most serious and wide.
'tcsd owls " our time is the in. n
ucly u men. alike In high and lou a
fe. When these incbria,c men are .
i'bands, as most Of them arr. Il il
np,s'ible To frame s,atemcn, N n
.nacgucnces ,ha, will give an IDEA of ,
heir cnomitt. =.
A happy marriage docs not demand /
fon sound bga'lh and Eo,I habits ,
.une her, ma.t 10, un b,ib .,.l.s 4
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