The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1907-05-08
THE SCATTERING
OF A DREAM
DREAMER SEES A FAIR
FACE IN WINNEMUCCA
Twice Our Eyes Met, but not a
Word was Spoken Now It is
All OFF
Editor Silver State:

| have been considerably interested
IN the discussion in your paper as to
who is at fault for the threatened cx
tlnction of the American home as AN
institution. / agree with the author
OF the one signing his name as Gone
of Your Readers" in every point, but
think he failed to name one import
ant reason why young people do not
marry.
AS to the article written by the
lady, l have no quarrel to pick with
her. From the tone of her article I
suspect that her daughter is response
bic for getting her poor on-in-law
! And it may also be that the said SON
ln-law is getting all that is coming to
him.
But here is the point which / think
has been overlooked. There is such a
great tendency for young women
these days to support themselves.
We must admit that such a tendency
in young woman has its commenda-
BILE side, but / wish to call attention
to it's other side.
young woman who has learned to
support herself finds she can get along
in state of single blessedness. She
may be engaged to young man and
some little love spat come up and
she defiantly declares she is able to
paddle her own canoe, and it is all
off. Or she may be married, and some
trivial trouble arise between her and
her husband, and she proudly says:
Il supported myself before I saw
him, and / can do it again, and Pm
going to do it, This magnifies the
troubles of married life and has a
tendency to check the intentions of
young men who are about to take the
step.
Just since this discussion has come
up I heard young lady say that she
wouldn' t slave in a kitchen for any
man. She thinks cooking nice, tasty
meal for her husband would be "slav-
ing She would prefer to work out
for first one employer and then an
other, where she would have a stern,
strict boss, to being mistress of her
own little home and being boss her
self. She doesn't think of how nice
it would be to have nice little home
she could call her own. She wants
the mansion all right, but the little
home her mother SO dearly priced has
no attraction for her.
Pardon me for becoming personal,
but we see things usually in the light
in which they affect us.
For years / have dreamed of having
little place back home-a modest
little cottage with honeysuckles climb
ing over the door and the humming
birds fitting in and out; little patch
of strawberries, and bee hives and a
Jersey COW and horse and buggy, a
hammock in the shade of the big trees,
spring down at the end of the path
and a gourd to drink out of, and a
rowboat down on the river, and all
that-some of you who have been back
there and tasted of life know. But
1 never seemed to meet the right one
, to help me enjoy these things. There
was a good, comfortable living wait
ing for some girl, with a man waiting
to pour out his love on her. 1t would
be his main object in life to make her
happy and crafty her every whim.
And only since coming to your town
/ have seen a face that startled me
and set me to thinking Was this the
one l had been looking for all these
years9 1t happened about ten days
ago. We said not a word,
but our eyes met twice, briefly.
know not if shs OWNED my thoughts,