The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-04-11

AEhlL. II, lSuo.
do for a country-for the whole world?
You know and | know. Without love
TO incite ambition Benjamin would
have opened one horse grocery and
sold molasses and Goldfish and had a
gang of old liars sitting around the
stove every evening.
"The world was already beginning
TO sneer at love when George Wash
ington got his eye on the widow Gus
tis. but he showed his Independence by
falling in love in the old fashioned
way. The widow liked him at once for
It.. They didn't sit as stiff as pokers
In their chairs on opposite sides of the
room and talk about the poets. if l
know anything about George, he was
holding her hand after three or four
meetings, and if | know anything
about widows Mrs. Custis wasn't pull
ing very hard TO get away. Ii may be
hard for you to imagine Washington
playfully 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 to old fashioned love. and that's
the way he was loving. What n
change in his life marriage aud love
brought What hustle he got on
him! Had 1t been today, under the
new system, he might have possibly
reached the state senate, but he would
have stopped there.
"IIow many divorces took place In
America hundred years ago2 Not
ten n year. How many take place per
year these days? Tens of thousands.
Why? Because old fashioned love
has been relegated along with other
old fashioned things. The love of to-
day rs simply business affair. The
sparkling Is travesty on the real
thing It's like drawing Off two-thirds
of barrel of new cider and filling 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 a
bad man, but they are prejudiced. He
gave his enemies the flipfap. and they
never got over trying to blacken his
reputation. Nero loved. He loved In
the right way. At the age of twenty
two 1t was doubtful whether he would
become ward heeler or a one horse
lawyer Love decided his fate and his
future He met n girl at candy pull
in Rome and fell head over heels in
love with her She reciprocated. Her
governor was down on Nero aud talked
about chains and bolts and bars, but
he got left. Nero went right at 1t to
win that girl. and he got her. There
were twenty other fellers after her Mt
the same time but he showed them off
the sidewalk and gathered his birdie
20 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 Fiddled.
"You may read that Nero fddled
while Rome was burning So he did,
but no didn't know how big the fire
was. and be was nddllng the air Of a
love song TO Mrs. Nero 1t wasn't his
business to run with any Of the en-
glnes.
I'VE now come down to my own
case have saved 1t for the last. Be
fore ! fell In love | knew that there
were two ways TO do 1.-THE old fash
ioned aud the new fashioned way. !
selected the former. When I met the
right party | let all the emotions Of
the old fashioned love thrill my being.
| didn't clap on porous plasters. as is
the fashion now. TO keep the thrills
down. | wanted that girl for herself
alone and not for her fathers hogs
We nestled up 20 each other We held
hands. fed her popped corn. We
paid no attention TO the clock. but
loved on and on 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 n tin peddler or n 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 Mt 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
II shall know not scandal and divorce"