The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1905-05-20
CHATS WITH GIRLS ABOUT THIS, THAT
AND THE OTHER.


nv Dea, Girls. S.-Isn't May, merry,
smiling, budding, blooming May, the
queen of all the months1 The poets,
ancient and modern, have always
sung its praises. In England the
May-pole dance comes with accurate
regularity, and many of the swaius
and buxom maidens who dance under
it this year are the welded helpmates
of next year. They say the early
English consecrated May day to Robin
Hood and the Maid Marian, because
the favorite outlaw died on that day.
We are also told that the going a
Maying dancing around the May
pole--electing May queen and light
ing bonfres, are all remnants of sun
worship, and may be traced to the
most ancient times. The chimney
sweeps used to lead about a Jack-i'-
the-green, and the custom is not yet
quite extinct. May was called an
unlucky month to marry in, but
whether true or not, June does GER
tainly bear the palm, and already
numerous hearts are in state of
hutter.
Ab,opOs of marriage. While was
spending an evening in a household
where three marriageable girls live
Gone Of them engaged), some one
ventured to ask how far they had
thought out the problem of their
futures? One of them, all full of
fun and merriment, said she thought
of the eelat of the engagement, and
then the buying lots Of things and
having them made up in the latest
styles, and the cards, the cake, the
presents aud the bridesmaids. I'll
be married in church, and have a
white silk, and an elegant veil, and
have three Saratoga trunks and a
wedding trip, and-well, that's pretty
near as far as / have gone. I sup
pose, after that, one boards at hotel,
or has to go to housekeeping, and
I'm afraid it would be so dreadfully
humdrum. But no more than it is
flirting with ore and another year
after year, and seeing all the other
girls married off All, mel"
Another one said, for her part, she
''had not looked at all at this style
and preparation that Mollie described,
because she knew she could not afford
it. And should want little home
all to myself. and I would keep it as
nice as could, and I would try to
be economical and help my husband
on in the world, and we should have
things finer only as we could afford
it 7; and I should want my home to be
very happy, so that all who belonged
in it would feel that it was the best
place in all the world. I should want
to gather up all the good that I could
everywhere, and bring it into my
home as the bee brings its spoils and
honey to its hive" l looked at this
girl and love and tenderness beamed
from her eyes as she spoke out thus
truthfully and frankly.
The other maiden was very seri-
Gus, and had far-of expression as
she gave as her desire this little wish.
"I want to make myself a scholar,
and shall marry scholar, and we
shall be happy in learning and in in
creasing knowledge. And he shall
be my helper, and I shall help him,
and so, together, we shall climb to
the top of the tree" There they
were-three modern Graces Vanity,
love, ambition Perhaps when few
more years glide over their heads,
they'll change little bit, and add
some other necessary attribute for the
making and keeping of the model
home. Young people, between the
ages of seventeen and twenty-five,
change so that they can hardly be
recognized as the same persons. Espe-
cially if they are parted from each
other during this period of changing
tastes, they will grow into great un-
likeness in ninety-nine cases out of
every one hundred neither will prove
to be that manner of person which
they were once supposed to be by the
other.