The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-07-30
nllfIN IN The FIELD


haze AsaEhsef a4a8Ass saifteen
seafs ed. pteturg ~ heal,h Es1
esy 4ellitY Ana lraoc~aee She loves
sssr ard ! love her. tof she ~Aa say
& firsg hsby an sng. no carshiY go
teetAta eerr feit his Importance
more thaa ! aia. ~hen this bii u
/ femlniy ~as placed ia DDS arms for
she first time. fog J had rather b.
ia father than DO president II / bad
f 10 choosn from the tao BBt this siFl
+ and / are chums. She tells me haF
+ troublea and her hig times. and then.
ahsn ahe gets me worked % ia the
right point she tells me What eho
+ wishes she had. for verify. she Is a
/. little diplomat One Of her pet diver
sion# In fu sit on my knee sud pull
the gray hairs from my bead, but
|. TN have 80 stop that. for the silver
threads are getting 60 be the hole
thing" on ms aged pate. But. will
this child always love me 500 Yea
know she will but Iu not be unrcas-
enable. but wili humbly and mcokly
bow my head to the inevitable, FOR
this love must sometime be shared
with another Only last evening
while we were sitting on the lawn
reading. | saw her deliberately hold
her paper With her left hand between
herself and me- while with her right
she executed series of flirtatious
with a dapper youth who was pass
ing by. She didn't think | saw. oh
no Dadsy is too dense for that. but
/ did / understand ! said nothing,
for what is the use?
But as people grow old, they be
gin to live more and more in the past
and as their children approach ma
turity. they will begin to plan a ca
reer for them. Last night after our
children We're asleep my Wife and /
got to talking Of our friends and &c
quaintances of our long ago Most
had succeeded but few had failed.
am sure your experience has been
the same as ours, for human life is
the same. with possibly a few yaria-
lions. We are old fashioned and be-
Iieve in marrying for love pure and
simple We believe that happiness
in this life is and must he in the
family. The family IS the social unit
and when the family is intact and
there s love between the father and
mother, there will be harmony in
the household, and the most sacred
recollections of the children of such
union will be the halcyon days of
their childhood
+ We believe in early marriages
not child marriages Of course, bu
then. such marriages seldom occu
ANYWAY. The people who prosper ant
who married while young. LOCI
around YOU at the successful families
and see if am not correct. They are
{ happy, for the father and mother
-. love each other. They married be
fore they had sense enough to thlnF
: of the value of money or other con
siderations. Money can buy land:
and houses. and sometimes 1t car
buy men and women, but one thins
III know. it never in all the world 5
history bought anybody's love. The
first marriage that took place II
| our set was that of John Hill anc
Carrie Lee. They were 20 and "
/ wears old. respectively. They mac
/ been sweethearts always and when
they married people said they woulo
starve for they said John wouldn'
work. But in that they were mistak
en- John rented cabin from olo
man White and cut cord wood toi
him all the winter They told II on
them that they lived on the squirrels
tbat John killed with his gun anc
the birds that she caught in traps
don't know about that. but mex
spring old man White sold John
| team and rented him land, and TO
| da, John owns a thousand acres OF
| the other side OF the creek, and IN
Il.ttsr to me last week he told n'
Ithar his oldest hoy had just beet
| elected cashier of o. new bank in or
| lahoma.
/ Sow there was soc wife who wa.
| ul aud as handsome as Apollo. i'
m,d. love to old Miss Nou Gates
:. who vas tom years Older than h" val
:. ba. .hs vas worth "a cool oue Bean
/ arsd Thousand dollars and tbat wal
| omr indutement ro Jo, fhof wAf
| .a Sod sot alouE Iuat liAr 81
l sad 90 toe t1,e dome from umr 'w
| memorial I1g wanted boz w'"f
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