The Big Sandy news., 1908-11-06

eDed TO a postage stamp-one black
mark ruins It. Mans like a treas
ury note--no matter how many stains,
1t still passes at par, This double
standard established by society Is
not Just, but 1t is recognized the
world over.
900
Men and women don't need 10
swing clubs to threaten home concord.
The husband armed with sneer,
and the wife who carries a wasplsh
tongue, are Just as well comparison
ed for death-dealing battle, as though |
they pounded each other with base
ball bats. Sarcasm and nagging are
to the atmosphere Of love what sand-
flies and fleas are TO summer wealth
er. Who would not prefer an &C.
casional brush with roaring June
bug, TO the eternal torment of a
flea you can't catch.
! 900
The married life, though entered
ever so we'll and with all proper pre- !
aradion, must be lived well or 1t
will not be useful or happy. Mar
ried life will not go itself, or II 1t
does II will not keep the track. il
will turn off at every switch and
fly off at every turn or impediment,
1t needs couple Of good conduc-
tors who understand the engineering
OF life. Good watch must be KEEP
for breakers ahead. The fires must
be kept up by constant addition
CT the fuel OF affection. The boil
ers must be kept full and the machin
cry in order, and all hands at their
POSTS, else there will be a smash
ing up, or life will go hobbling or
jclting along, wearing and tearing,
breaking md bruising, leaving some
heads and hearts to get well the best
| way they can. It requires rkill,
prudence, and judgment 10 lead
this life well, and these must be tenn
, pered with forbearance, charity, and
, integrity ......
How many hungry hearts there are
in the world, hungering for recogni-
u, tIon, for word Of praise. The bun
griest heart In this world Is an
unpraised woman whose husband nev
er gives her word of praise OF
recognition for sacrifice made Ia
his behalf. Love may be there, II
his heart for her, love deep ant
abiding, and should death claim her
!, the fountains of his heart would b
!, broken up and he would realize wha
be had lost and cover her grav
with roses, which, had they bee
presented single one at a tim
with a little of the tenderness n
- now shows, her pathway would nav
been far brighter and in her life
ray of sunshine, not that her bur
dens were diminished, but by know
ledge undispuiable, that her efforl
were apprecia A hungry hea
which is destined to never TO be fe
is one of the saddest spectacles eV'
witnessed in this world of our
II YOU have word Of praise
bestow on your wife-if it is du
. bestow II. DO not wait until she
dead, and be forced through blin
ing tears to tell your heart in
, wild throbbing that you have livt
, a dual life by sitting back wor
that would have brought im
: of pleasure 10 her cheeks, old as S
l., is, and set her helrt to dancing wi
pleasure only known TO tho
who have had their hungry hear
- fed by words of praise and COZ
-, mendation.
ent
a. A young man meets pretty 20
In the ball room, falls in love wi
It, courts 1t, marries it, and goes
u, housekeeping with 1t and boasts
having home and a wife to grs
It. The chances are nine to
that he has neither, He has be
!. taken in and done for" Her pre-
face gets to be an old story, 9r
nt comes faded or freckled or frett
ana and as the face was all he want
all he paid attention to, all
ited sat up with, all he. bargained
all he swore to love, honor and
'rse tect, he gets sick of his trade, knc
ana Of dozen pretty faces he likes |
MIS- ter, gives up staying at home cy
ings, consoles himself with Gig
rem and politics and looks upon
home as very indifferent board
MI house.
Another young man becomes
mrs amored of a fortune. He wi
upon 1t TO parties, dances a po
Dar- with it exchanges billet d;
with n nons the question TO