The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-12

| life and boosted of the fact puts on
her hat to go down to the village store
and buy a darning needle. She hasn't
| read love story for twenty years. She
! pfd In her presence. Out of the gate
she goes, intending to get two needles
| Tor cent and return as soon as pos
sible, but what happens? She has
scarcely taken hundred steps when a
| tin peddIer driving along the street ac-
costs her and asks If she is in need of
washboards, dippers, f1atirons, milk
| pans nutmeg graters, coffee pots or
anything else in his line. Ninety-nine
| times out of a hundred she would tell
that peddler to go to grass, but on this
occasion she halts and looks up. Their
eyes meet. They smile. Cupid makes
shot and pierces both of their hearts
with his arrow. In six months she Is
| hisnt and getting her tinware at 10
| per cent of.
Love, my friends. rules the world
Nature intended it to when it gave hui
| mainly the feeling. In a few cases,
where a man has got a note at the
| bank to pay and can't figure out how
| he is to do it, love develops slowly and
| there isn't so much walking the floor
o'nights, but in the vast majority of in
| stances it hits person with the sud
denness of a cows kick. Once kicked
you are a goner. If your love is re-
Quilted you may get back your appetite
for string-beans after a year or so; If
it is not you will probably be found
hanging to a beam in the barn some
fine morning.
Pliny loved. Plato roved. Cicero
loved. That old mossback Diogenes
loved. Men have been loving ever
since the days of Adam. 1 don't say
ever been quite sure of them. 1t is a
feeling that makes fools of the Oldest
and wisest of US, and yet one can not
be restrained. Once you find yourself
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through. 1t has settled the fate OF
nations, and it has fixed the price of
N. o. molasses
Love leads to marriage. and marriage
self at the second part of my subject
Should divorce be made easy or impos-
vGed on that oPnGa the some CT our
wisest and best men have held thar if a
in love and marry they should be
obliged to put up with each. others so
threw teaDots and the husband came
home drunk. Others equally wise and
the fighting stage they should not be
boxed up together Let each go his way
see before me in the audience a man
hair h and 70 whskers Dyed baeR has
make out that he is as timber as a boy.
select a girl of about 20. He will be so
madly in love with her that the days will ,
seem forty-eight hours long. He will
want to kiss the ground she walks on.
He will promise her diamonds by tho |
bushel. Within a month after marriage |
she will be upsetting the table and he |
Should the pair be forced to live to
we know that Cicero fell in love with |
a girl he met when returning to his !
the tribune. One fleeing smile mashed |
him flat as pancake. In six months I
they were married and he was pronis- |
ing her the world year later she was |
calling him Old Sissy and throwing tea |
cups ut his head. He divorced her, and |
mire. If he had continued to live on |
with her they would have both brought |
up in the police court.
do not take sides in this matter. I |
to pause and reflect. Is it better. when
you find yourself in love, to jump into |
the duck pond at once and end every
thing. or to keep on loving and take the
and passed beyond the stage where you
solemnly believed that your wife was an
angel, is it better to stand her temper
than to divorce her? Is it better for her
to put up with your ways than to divorce
you?
Go to your homes. my friends, ad think
these things over If you decide on di-
vorce get right at it and make the grass
fly; If you decide to stick together then
leave the kicking business out of the fu-
lights out, bid ali good night and head
for Shafferville, where I shall lecture to-
morrow night on the subject of Whats
the use of getting drunk when you know
Copyright 1907 by G. D. Daniels)