The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1908-06-11

DO for a country--for the whole world
You know and I know. Without love
to incite ambition Benjamin would
have opened one horse grocery and
sold mOlasSes aad goldfish and had a
ging Of Old liars sitting around the
stove every evening.
The world was already beginning
to sneer ut love when George Wash
instOn got his eye On tie widow Gus
It's. but he showed his Independence by
falling in love i'll tie cid fashioned
way. The widow liked him AT once fol
it. They didn't sit as Stiff as pokers
in their chairs on opposite sides of the
room and talk about the poets. If
know anything about George. he was
holding her hand after three or four
meetings. and if | know anything
about widows Mrs. Gusts wasn't pull
ing very hard to get away. 1t may be
hard for you to imagine Washington
pldyfully pulling her ear and smooth
ing down her raven hair and calling
her birdie, but we all know that he
must have done so. Those things be-
long 10 old fashioned love. and that's
the way he was loving. What
change in his life marriage and love
brought. What hustle he got on
him, Had il been today. under the
new system. he might have possibly
reached the state senate. but he would
have stopped there.
How many divorces took place in
America a hundred years ago? Not
ten year. How many take place per
year these days: Tens of thousands.
Why! Because old fashioned love
has been relcGated along with other
old fashioned things The love of to-
day is simply a business affair The
sparkling is a travesty on the real
thing. It's like drawing off two-thirds
OF barrel of new cider and filing the
space up with water. People marry
without even having kissed
You have read of Nero Some Of
the histories try to make him out
bad man. but they are preiudiced. Hn
gave his enemies the fipfap, and they
never got over trying to blackcn his
reputation. Nero loved. He loved in
the right way. At the age of twenty
two it was doubtful whether he would
become ward heclcr or one horse
lawyer. Love decided his fate and his
future. He met a Girl at a candy pull
i'll Rome and fell head over heels in
love with her She recfprocated. Her
governor was down on Nero aud talked
about chains ard bolts and bars but
he got left. Nero went right at it to
win that girl. and he got her. There
were twenty other fellers after her ut
the same time but he showed them off
the sidewalk and gathered his birdie
TO his arms. Then he began TO climb
the ladder Of fame, Love pushed him
from rung to rung. and at last he
reached the top.
While Nero Fdded.
you may read that Nero fiddled
while Rome was burning. SO he did.
but he Didn't know how big the fire
WAS. and he was fiddling the air of a
love song TO Mrs Nero. 1t wasn't his
business to run with any of the ell
giueS
I'VE now come down to my own
case. ! have saved it for the last. Be
fore | fell in love | knew that there
We're two ways to do 1.-THE old fash
Toned ana the new fashioned way. |
selected the former. When | met the
right party | let all the emotions Of
the old fashioned love thrill my being
| didn't clap on porous plGsters, as is
the fashion now, to keep the thrills
down. | wanted that girl for herself
alone and not for her fathers hogs
We nestled NJ 20 each other. We held
hands. fed her popped corn We
paid no attention to the clock but
loved Oh aud gu End on, and stayed
for breakfast in the morning. | ran
every other young man out of the
county and married her. and love has
made me what am. If | had loved in
the new fashioned way | should now
be tin peddier or lightning rod
man
- say to the farmers hired man in
front of me. ! say TO the hired girl on
the back seat. | say 10 all unmarried
people in this land Of ours. be progress
i've. be up TO date, be at the head of
the procession in all things but one.
Love, court and marry in the old FASH
toned way. Nothing new can improve
on it. Heaven pointed out the road TO
Adam and Eve, and YOU that walk in
it shall know not scandal and divorce"
NJ. QUAD.