Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1906-09-07

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j. Knox Hall. =
aSM NIX XIX " " 4 u
Such are life's scenes. Change and
disaprointments are written upon
every page of times book. Life,
however, has many SUNNY spots, but
they who seek happiness only from
the world find but few of them. The
desolate soul, looking upon this evil
and that, must, like Noah's dove, be
forced to return into its ark of safe
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Bow ,ow the head. do reverence to
the old man, once like you. The vi
cissitudes OF life have silvered his
hair and changed the round merry
face to the worn visage before you.
Once the heart beat with aspirations,
crushed by disappointment as yours,
perhaps, is destined to be. Once
that form stalked prou lily through
gay scenes Of pleasure, the beau ideal
of grace; now the hand of time, that
withers the flower of yesterday, has
benz that figure and destroyed that
noble carriage. Once, at your age,
ne possessed the thousand thoughts
that pass through your brain, now
wishing to accomplish deeds equal to
a nook in fame: anon imagining life
a dream that the sooner he awoke
from it the better But he has lived
the dream very near through, the
time to awaken is very near at hand;
his eye never kindles at old deeds of
daring, and the hand takes a firmer
grasp of the staff Bow low the head,
boy as you would in your old age be
reverenced.
We notice the words so often:
Marriage is failure" We do not
believe it, and will give a few reasons
why We do not. Gods plans are
never failures, and marriage is one of
his prominent commands. Marriage
for love brings happiness. The great
fault IN this day and age is, there are
SO many loveless marriages. People
marry for fortune, fame and so on;
bnt when for love only true happi-
ness will always be found. We think
it is not right for so many married
people to say, in the presence of
Young men and women. Marriage
is failure" because two-thirds of
those who make such a statement do
not mean it. Love is the source of
true happiness, and marriage the
natural consequence. When q man
and woman love each other, they
know it by the actions, by the Ian
guage of the eye and so on. A pro,
posal is just form handed down
from generations. We believe the
engagement should last for a reason
able length of time for these are near.
er heaven than they will ever be
again in the world. ''''''
One thing remember, no one is
perfect but there are none SO blind
as those who won t see. Be totally
blind to all but the good qualities.
Live for each other. Make your
married life one happy dream. We
have seen men who look so hard and
stern as though there was not such a
thing as being happy, and we would
think there is a woman who could
bring smile to his face and tender
ness to his eyes. A woman listens
for his footsteps, anxiously waiting
for him to come home.
A marriage for anything but love
could not be anything but a failure.
Those who love may be unfortunate
in great many respects, may never
be rich in this worlds goods, but
they are rich in love and the greatest
pleasure obtainable in this world is
in loving some one and doing good.
We believe there is but one love mar
riage. If one dies, sometimes a sec
ond marrige occurs but the majority
of these are just for convenience or it
was not love marriage the first
time
Watch poor, old grandma
when she takes picture from her
drawer. The tears roll down her
cheeks and you know she is looking
at grandpa's picture. After a while
the picture will drop to her lap and
grandma will have a faraway look in
her eyes and a smile on her face al
most angelic. She is dreaming of
the happy bygone days. She would
not say marriage was a failure. Or
grandpa will tell you so often how
grandma used to do, and when he
finds that he is growing more feeble
each day. he will impress the desire
on the minds of his friends to bury
him by grandma and mark his grave
with a tomb like hers. He would
not say marriage was a failure.
Where there are a thousand happy
marriages that nothing is ever writ
ten or talked OF, the un happyone is
displayed in print, and hence the re-