The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1910-04-01
KEEP SENTIMENT.


Life without sentiment is as insipid
as savory without salt. Yet when
people marry they usually ssettle
down." which means they endeavor to
look at everything from the common
sense point of view, and forswear all
the delightful nonsense which they
INDUCED in when they were sweet
hearts.
Is it that rent, taxes, butcher,
baker, and candiestick maker usurp
the place given to romance? Or is it
that people always grow staider as
they grow older?
Is it possible that the wife cares
less for love than the sweetheart
used to do? Not in her heart OF
hearts, | believe. But once surround
ed by it, she grows unconscious OF
it, and imagines it no longer of SUI
preme Importance, even making the
hideous mistake of fancying it can
be done without. Familiarity breeds
contempt, and so she lightly prizes
love to her own undoing.
Stick fast to the high ideals of
counting days; don't let yourself be
persuaded they are foolish or old
fashioned; don't, when love becomes
a daily certainty. fancy sentiment
can be dispensed with, or you will
wake up with start one of these
fine days and find to your cost that
the future which promised to be SO
fair is stretching blank and desolate
before you, and that your husband, or
your wife, as the case may be, bears
no resemblance to the sweetheart OF
years gone by.-New Haven Register.
ONLY SEVENTEEN In DOG ORDER
The Brotherhood of Hero Dogs is a
novel institution, but it already has
an interesting history, which has
been incorporated into the form of q
book, to be sold for the benefit of the
Animals Hospital. Founded by Mrs.
de Courcy Laffan, with her white
Pomeranian, Royal Edward, as. presi-
dent, the order has an honor list OF
seventeen members, and while animal
lovers in all parts of the country are
submitting candidates for member
ship, due care is exercised to see that
only worthy dogs are admitted to the
brotherhood. Pedigree and breeding
are worthless as qualifications for
election, but any dog that is proved
to have performed a conspicuously
heroic act has his name inscribed in
the records of the brotherhood with
out delay and is presented with sill
yer collar, which is the official badge
of honorable membership. The first
issue of Mrs. Laffan's book contains
the life history and portrait of each
of the seventeen charter members
New York Press
RIBBON FOR MRS VANDERBILT.
1t is said on the best authority that
Mrs. w. X. Vanderbilt will be deco
rated with the Order of the Legion
Of Honor by the French Government
at the next announcement OF enrol
ments and promotions Some such
recognition of the generous activity
Mrs. Vanderbilt has shown in char
liable works in Paris long has been
urged by the more prominent philan-
thropists in the French capital, but
hitherto the Government has shown
persistent reluctance to extending its
high honors to an American woman.
Mrs. Vanderbilt permits social en-
gagements to take up only a small
of her time, and her char
table interests are widespread The
most conspicuous of her good works
probably is the new hospital she rec
emily established in Paris, entirely at
her own expense, which. is said to :.
be one OF he most perfecly equip y
ped in the world. New York Press.