Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1909-06-18
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r,,n;d L,ore everybody oo oueJ
G hat he f hardly gives them time to
think before they are har"e p'tt up
a; and e ~sst he m dSs be little slow
W 'efbey h he ln been bitten by mos
ouitoes and given a to 5"an OF 81 m .as,
e ela of - d Ioes not appear. But he
p must not tG be attending to business,
for f the , Jersey Justices are adver-
Using in this fashion: u,,n
Justice Of the Peace.
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stallment plan for paying fee if
o Soa;nad Residence, III East
Fifth st street; office, l49 North
Down. Down here people don't take
their love on the ihstallment plan
'''T Tbav NAV have to buy their fur
n;t,ro that way in order to start
the t,e' home nest; but love itself comes
WI, q sweep that rushes a man
r Goi,t to the altar. He waits un-
I'll later to find whether he has cap
tured the prize mermaid or a sea-
s ser For b3th varieties are tc
be found in theocean of matrimo-
nv which in most cases is also the
wyell-known "saa of life" The idea
Of Occupies married while you
wait" somehow seems Inappropriate
IF the couples love each other
enough to ge married, they don't
want to waij and if they don't love
each other HAT much, they ought
not to get parried.
Those jersey girls must not un-
derstand he game. Evidently
thew are MT artists. In some SCI
tions the drl selects the fellow she
would like to pay her board and
millinery bills, and then poses ap.
propriaeg in the scenery until he
finds she S so much part of the
picture If life that when she moves
away tie picture is not worth look,
ing at. Then she makes him run
away while, and he imagines he is
banislsd. But she only wants him
to ge the effect of distance, which.
as tlepoet saith, 'lends enchant.
mer to the view" Then she al
low him to return, and he imag-
inc she has conferred upon him q
ro.al favor. And between encour.
ag,ment and rebuffs, he gets SC
mxed up that he hardly knows
whether he is coming or going. But
sle knows. The girl is not missing
single point or overlooking one
little bet. He gets it into his head
HAT the girl is the goal, but she
Knows all the time that the goal is
1;matrimony."
iMan, poor man! He imagines he
q flirting around as he pleases and
when he finds himself at the altar
he wonders how it occurred. But
she knows. She had decided about
the bridesmaids and ushers, had
been planning her dress and the col,
or scheme of the decorations before
the man ever thought he was go
ing to be married, And yet she
looks like an innocent captive of
the bold, daring man who stands
beside her, and who imagines that
it was only by the most sturdy dc
termination and great goodluck that
he ever induced her to say Eyes. :"
Compared with this subtle fnesse,
the New Jersey method is so crude
that it is hard to see how it can be
a success. Matrimony requires
uncertainty, hot and cold
spells and a mixture of snow and
moonlight. The man who would
marry while you wait on the in
stallment plan would be a pretty
poor specimen of a husband. Jer-
sew justices may as we'll keep out
Of it. Leave the love game to
those who understand it, Cupid
and the girls, BALTIC. Sun.