East Mississippi times. (Starkville, Miss.) 19??-1926, 1909-10-15
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Our First Loves.


the days of her YOUTH If it were
to do over again, would you marry
your wife or some one else' Or, if
you are single, do you wish you
had married the girl you loved so
ardently a long time ago'
Mr.. Taft met, the other day in
Oregon, the woman who was his
sweetheart long years ago, when
they were boy and girl. They
went to the same Sunday school,
the same picnics, and the same
parties, but when they grew older
drlfted apart, and each one of them
married somebody else, as so often
happens in life. For q man sell
dom marries his first love; and as
for the women, they are not sun
posed to tell their loves until thew
marry them. When Mr.. Taft
reached her home in the. west he
wanted to see his old sweetheart
and they had q merry chat over old
times. ~" 1885,.
Did Mrs. Dodge regret that she
hadn't, married the young man
who rose to be the president of the
United States' Not a bit of II
She seemed to think that, while
Mr.. Taft was jolly and we'll fed
and distinguished he was not the
same good-looking boy she used TO
know. Having added some $50
pounds to his tonnage since thai
time, Mr.. Taft naturally had lost
bit OF the youthful grace that
distinguished him. He is no
matinee idol, and does not pose as
model OF manly beauty. But we
are grieved at his old sweetbeart,s
disappointment in him. HE
seemed verytired from his trim and
not at all like the boy and man r
had known at home" she said.
| suppose being president of the
United States wears man OUT
1t is sad, but it is not Mr.. Taft's
fault. The Baltimore Sun insists
on this and suggests further that
romance belongs to youth, and as
we reap honors and dignities we
also reap flesh and gray hairs.
Our. old sweethearts must not ex.
pect us to remain the same fair
haired youths, with curly locks
and. slim forms, who played tennis
IN the afternoons and the guitar
at night, and thought nothing of
dancing 217 miles in single even
ing with the girl with blue eyes.
For the old sweethearts may not
realize it, but they have changed a
little themselves. They are not
only not the girls we loved, they
are not even the women their hus-
bands married.
When a man has borne in his
memory for years the picture of a
young girl of radiant beauty 81
slim fairy-like creature who was n
phantom of delight, and in after
years comes face to face with the
same lady, observing that she tins
the scales at 220 pounds or so, and
has grown near-pearl earrings, a
mammoth ostrish hat, has voice
like the dulcet notes of the por-
polse and disposition that would
adorn cross hyena, it is n little
disconcerting.
To tell the truth, none of us ia
so young as he used to be. and wa
can't be expected to have money
fame, family and good looks all at
the same time. That old sweet
heart of :yours may have been
beauty in her time, but the chances
are that your wife is sweeter
more charming and better looking
than any other girl you ever had
the chance to marry, and you know
yeu love her lots better than Won
Peyer could have loved any dainty
I little tlimpled darling who could
neither cook hot waffles nor make
apple Dies,v-Ex.s
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