Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1907-01-10
ThoRoFARE.
Between Life's gates Of mystery
Throng solemn men and wise,
With scales to weigh the things that be
To sift. reject and prize;

Between Life's gates OF mystery
Throng solemn men and wise,
With scales to weigh the things that be
To sift. reject and prize;
Yesterdays fault, tomorr0w's sin
Their withered lips repeat;
But we, we be the foolish kin
Who know to-day is sweet
At least it was so during Christmas
week, and whenever we wanted any little
bauble either for ourselves or to give to
some friend, and spoke Of it in confidence
to the head of the family" he would say
'syery we'll, get what you want and have
it charged, can't be bothered now" and
so we got what we wanted and had it
charged, and thought new heaven and a
new earth were with us. But now since
the New Year the atmosphere has changed
altogether because the bills have come in, /
must confess that they are all in because |
can't stand many more of them. We were
talking OF il at our Missionary Society the
other day. We meet once week and do
what we can to ameliorate the condition Of
the undone and trouserless heather in GER
tain far-off and anonymous islands, when
one of the ladies said, THAT there had been
discussion going the rounds of the papers
OF late as to whether or not women have
robbed men of their religion. There was a
widow present who claimed to haye had
three average husbands, and one who fell
long way below the regulation standard.
She thought herself about as well acquaint-
ed with the ordinary or domestic variety OF
man as if she had seen clear through him
wish lighted lantern. She went on to
say the average man thinks be is the
embodiment of knowledge, and that when
he dies Wisdom will be buried with him.
Before marriage he swears be will love you
forever; after marriage he simply swears.
After observing the usual sort of man for
any length of time, sensible woman can
scarcely help thinking so little Of him that
the more she thinks of him the less she
thinks of him. OF course, there are excep-
tional men-there are also white black
berries. The man that swears he would
willingly die for woman always mentally
reserves the right to die of old age The
average man is both success and fail
ure--he is a success as failure and failure
as a success-and then he has the face and
impudents to declare that his wife made
him all that he is. Somebody once sum-
med up men by saying that man is merely
gorilla with conscience, but I am Of the
opinion that the great majority Of them are
Just plain gorillas. / say all this TO show
where get by belief that women havn't
robbed men of their religion, for the simple
reason that don't think they ever had any
to be robbed Of, and also to quiet the hints
that haye been flying around for the last
few weeks to the effect that I am anxious
to marry again" And then the widow
remembered an engagement and folded up
her work quietly and left and we, feeling
that the question Of mans religion had
been forever settled, left soon after.
The Patriotic Sons of america took in a
GLASS of eight on last Tuesday night when a
big banquet was served.
Mr.. Charles B. Leonard entertained on
New Years Day his children, his grand
children and his great-grand-child
Among other guests were Mr.. Charles w.
Curtis, and Miss Anna M. Wood, from
Philadelphia, and Mr.. and Mrs. John w.
Leonard, Of Parkerville. The dinner was
both bountiful and elegant, and mirth and
jollity abounded, although there were Sc
rious thoughts and conversation.
Miss Kate Huff spent some days last
week with her son, Mr.. Thomas Steen, in
Gloucester City.
Mr.. Aaron Windish and family moved
into their new house on last Saturday. The
house is another ornament to the place.
Mrs. Rebecca Gleason spent New Years
Day with her aunt, Mrs. E. E. Cowgirl, in
Paulsboro. There was large party OF
other friends and an exceptionally good
time.