The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1906-03-14

ranny," and Theophrastus pronounced
it q "a silent cheat"
The man who marries for beauty
alone is as silly as the man who would
buy a hou 10 bee .use it had fine flowers
In the front yard.
It takes more than a fair skin,
bright eyes, beautiful form and dell.
cate hands to make a really beautiful
woman. The highest type Of beauty
ls never merely physical; it Is In the
outgleamings, Of internal virtues and
sweet gracss Of character.
The beauty that lasts shines In the
yirtuous life, sweetens the voice OF
sympathy, sparkles on the brow Of
wisdom and flashes In the eye OF love.
A lovely soul will glow In the face.
The really beautiful woman has q
beauty which changes not with years,
and this is the only beauty that CAD
be- relied upon for q permanent inhu-
ercs with men.
The violet will soon cease to smile
Flo Yers must fade. The love that
has nothing but beauty to sustain 1t
coon withers away.
A beautiful woman pleases the eye,
q good woman holds the heart. The
one Is q jewel, the other is q treasure.
Look we'll to the temper, OF the
woman you think of marrying. Soc
rates said he married Xlntippe and
endured her for self. discipline"
The story is told Of him that when
bis wife gave him a lecture he walked
outside the house, sat down ard
laughed. This angered her the more;
she rushed upstairs and poured down
a bucket of water on him. BE walked
away and smlllingly said. "That Is all
that you can expect. a shower after q
thunder.torm."
But the men who look at the mat.
ter In this light are like the philoso.
pher himself-dead.
am rather inclined to take Solo
mons view Of the matter. 1T Is bet
ter to dwell In the c)rner Of a house
top than with a brawlir g woman in a
wide house."
John Wesley's wife used to sit In
the middle aisle In City Road Chapel
and, it is said, made a mouth at him
while be preached. Oae day he was
telling his congregation how he had
been assailed by bis enemies and de-
claring that he bad been accused OF
violating every commandment except
drunkenness. Whereupbn his wife
arose and said: Mr.. Wesley, you
know you were. dunk"
Wesley threw up his hands and ex-
claimed: THANK God, the catalogue
is complete"
Wesley's experience, therefore, en-
abled him to give good counsel, and
when one of bis young preachers wrote
to him for advice on marriage, saying
that he was hesitating between two
women-one was q processing Chris.
tian, but lad a terrible temper, while
the other made no religious profession
but had a sweet Wesley
Immediately sent back word: MAR
~ the woman with the sweet DISPOSE
tion."
Marry q good hcusekeeper.
The story is told of a teacher OF In.
dams who was reading them the para
BILE of the Ten Virgins by the aid CT
an interpreter. AS she read she no.
ticed a smile on the faces OF her usual
ly sober-visaged pupils, and, stopping
to irquire the cause, discovered that,
owing to the limited vocabulary OF
the Indian dialect, which made the
same word serve for virgin and old
maid, the parable as it read through
tho interpreter vas to the effect that
ten old maids lighted their lanterns
and went out to look for husbands"
Woman's education one hundred
years ago was the lighting OF a lantern
to enable the girl to better look for a
husband, and her education was In
the arts Of the kitchen and the rarlor,
and the object Of education was mere
ly to make q useful housewife. Now
the pendulum has swung to the other
extreme.
When men select women fpr wives
in quiet homes, where domestic graces
prevail, the fnery of the world will
sink into insigniicance.
The most fascinating women are
those who can enrich the everyday
moments Of lie.
The time was when women OF the
very best society became their hus-
friends and companions, con-
sidered their interests identica! and
did not hold them as 80 much fair