Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1907-11-08

friend. You will go there in the
afternoon as well as the evening, aud
If you are industriously attentive, you
will happen around sometimes at
most Questionable hour 10 tile morn
inS. You will not hang on the gate.
post either, whether it be morning,
noon OF night. If it is morning, or
early afternoon the girl will put you
to wipiug dishes and you will Rlsdly
and obligingly comply. And you
will be just as much a gentleman in
the kitchen as you are in the parlor.
Let me assure you that if you do not
learn to wipe dishes at that period in
your life, you never will.
Ano her thing. young man, if you
desire the company of your girl
either to or from an entertainment
you will go to the house, rap at the
door and wait in the parlor for her
No gentleman hangs around outside
and waits for her to come out. 1t
may take O little courage to walk up
to the door and face her mother for
the first time and explain why yon
are there and what you have come
for; and you may get nervous and
hdgety while you wait for her to get
ready or suffer a battery Of cross
questions from her while you wait,
hut 1t is the facing and the braving
of these things that mixes a real man
of you.
No sensible, right thinking girl will
accept the company of a young man
home from church or an entertain.
ment unless he accompanied her there.
The worst vipers that infest our
modern civilization are the cowardly
young fellows who line up with the
crowd Of 'catchers' at church door
10 approach and beg the company OF
girls. sThe young women who thus
accept the company of after church
'catchers, as they are styled. cast
themselves from their high estate Of
purity and innocence and into the base
depths of degradation They lower
themselves in the sight of all good
men.
"My best girl turned me down
cold, gave me the 'mitten' as the
young fellows express it. one night
by refusing my company home from q
church entertainment. / had been
going with her too, for a couple Of
years and was become OF the notion
that she belonged to me. hairpins and
all. But she taught me a valuable
lesson that night lesson l never
forgot, and for which I shall always
feel deeply indebted. She found her
way to the entertainment without my
. ssistance and she knew she could
find her way home without 1t. And
she made that fact known to me in
just 80 many words. My ears burn
yet every time think of it. II every
girl would do Is that girl did. the
after church 'catchers', whs are, in
truth, the most destructive pests to
younR and Innocent girlhood. would
soon become extinct or be obliterated.
The beau and sweetheart prob
lem, then is matter OF encourage
ment rather than encouragement. If
the girl has fellow get that fellow
into the home as soon az possible.
Let him understand that if he desires
the girls company he must seek it
first in her home. This is one Of the
things of the world that begins in the
home, and that should forever remain
there. If the young man lives at
distance, give him an invitation to
visit, and keep him week or two.
Take plenty of time to get acquainted.
II he is the right sort of young man
he will gladly comply, aud will ap-
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thus formed around the home lamp
will be blessing both to him aud
to his girl, who is possibly destined
to be his girl for all time. 1t is as
sociatious of this sort, made around
the hearthstone, that insures the hap.
piness and harmony Of that other
home that is to be- To all of Us who
have heart, home is the dearest,
sweetest SPOT on earth. Home is the
shelter from the storms of life. Its
voices are the echoes OF love. Its
smiles are the shadows Of heaven.
Though one may have the choice and
the good fortune 20 roam mid pleas.
rres aud palaces. the memory of the
old home, with its friendships and
associates which gladden. his youth,
will appear in his dreams by night,
and liuger IN his thoughts by day.
Iou cannot drown the remembrance
of that home, and though the cid
place may orumble to decay and pass
from off the earth the memory of it
I'LL always ba mn inspiratiOn RI vnp