The Marshall republican., 1907-02-08
The Father Of the June Bride.

"ff's WV ~ N'NfNs W bANt'a e'o
it, host Of eager, happy. you'g gra J.
un'es. who are going forth to begin
the battle - life. is the happi,st
month ~ the year.
There is. however. one fu"ior vital.
~ concerned In the happy events -
the month OF June whic, = worthy
~ AT least u moments consideration.
The Thoughts, hopes. idcuis Of brides.
groGms and their satellites arc given
I'D lib. III. loving and lachrymose
mother gets full measure Ia the
story. but to waste any time on the
ut iuGc aud feeling ~ the ~ her In
'"i ne ton with these Festivities q
rarely. IL ever. thought of.
The lives Of most men IRE shaped
md bound ny routine. Existence
imr. X Ia hnmdrum and joys along Ia
rats ard grooves until some cement.
~ happening lifts for the moment
- n kerncr sensibility and deeper
realization Of the way the years are
passing. We then suddenly become
rorscious that thi ar. not NJ they
Mere: that our particular drama
II Hitting rapidly from net 10 net, and
that The final curtain fall In far
nearer than we thought.
Ones daughter marries. A com
mon event. ~ the world goes. ~
'lipht iHtercIt 10 my except those
oSt directly concerned: but this IL
rls" true III most individual Affairs.
Hui To ''e father wlio loves that
innpli l. IL becomes one VI the great
events ~ life. stirring the depths ~
"-iirary. OF soliciiudc. Ut hopes and
fears.
Gems hut yesterday since tho
''hN. b.ishtseyed stranger FIRST smiled
'fon 7his side Of the unknown. How
n listened TO the first prattle from
~" baby lips. watched the Dir I tod.
~ ng steps and infant wiies. Yester-
'lnys To-day she goes forth from
The home where she has been no low
sd and cherished to cast her lot for.
-vermore with one who supplants her
father In her heart.
Childhood came and passed, oh. 40
puicSily. aud how the father tot ell
aud molled that his daughter might
lie sh' elded from want and care.
might he equipped fitting to play 10
1aT. in lie. Children are thought .
less. and until she In time comes
Ia ere The old. true love 70 lightly
aside for the new she will never
never can know. the meaning
'r The pain that grips the fathers
heart when he ms give into other
lands the ore No dear to him. Love
u "es down. not up the family scale,
: Use philosophers long have held,
and truly. and the girls soul goa
ont to seek its mate, obeying the
mighty mandate Of Mother Nature,
who will not be deniel.
The world belongs TO youth. Tho .
h are gray ana run 10 seed must
hnd their recompe Sc in memory, for
anticipation no more. Yet
more the less is Il not devoid Of BIT
terness To be set asi.e while another
plicks the fruit one so carefully has
watched ard tended through all tina
jorP and weary years.
Then from the fathers worldly
vision springs the dread fear that In
Va & rev venture all will not be we'll.
she c; mot understood, for this
master Of heart ard soul see ms
all IN rrfection In her love-tinged VS.
ion Marriage to her Is .~beatituds.
She has no knowledge OF all that
behind the spoken VOW. the Jar
ring discord Of m-mated lives, the
Of tragedy when matrimonial
blarlss, or worse. are drawn. She
line runs back to the Ayst
u q Their Of the race. II may be age .
III selfish ard Jealous AZ the yourg.
b u thought o. empty pIacs and va.
.sA I hair ipspires uninst a. rust s.
he old fisAsv's hsark apWnSns