Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1910-06-17
What Real Love Means.

What Real Love Means.
l wonder if the average girl realizes
how much it means when a man asks her
to marry him.
In the first place. it means that he
loves you so well that he can't live hap
PLY without y0G.
1t means that he honors you above all
other girls, that he wants you for the
mother of his children. That is the
highest honor that any man can pay any
woman.
He is eager to double his energies and
responsibilities just for the sake of win
ming you for his wife
lie humbly feels that he is not good
enough for you. You are something 50
pure and sweet and holy in his eyes
that though he probably has been no bet
ter nor worse than other young men,
he feels unworthy.
He is ready to give up cherished com
panions and habits. ready to do anything
that will make his life clean and fit to
lay at your feet
And all this because he loves you and
wants you for bis wife
He knows, ii he is Il man of intelli-
gence. that the only life worth living is
that wherein wife and children bear a
part.
He wants to marry and he wants chill
dren, as every thinking man and woman
should.
On your side do you realize the inn
mense responsibility of accepting a
mans love and making a good wife?
1t does not simply mean falling madly
in love, and a trousseau, and a honey
moon and a dainty little apartment.
1t means a solemn VOW to be Wife,
companion and mother.
Don't shirk the responsibilities of
motherhood with the idea that you can't
be bothered by children and that you are
happiest without them.
Not one woman in a thousand is hap
pier without children.
The maternal instinct is the sweetest
feeling born in the human heart. To
love her husband and be the mother of
his children is the most supreme bliss
that woman ever rises to.
The maternal love and interest that
center in their children is the strongest
tie between man and wife.
The man who loves you and asks you
to marry him places in your hands the
solemn trust of guarding his honor as
he would himself
Some girls marry as lightly aud cas-
ually as though they were merely going
out to spend a pleasant evening or buy
a new hat
You expect the evening to last n few
hours and the hat to last a season.
If you look at marriage in the proper
spirit you expect it to last for the rest
Of your life
The red-cheeked little chap playing
marbles with his whole heart in the
game does not know that some day he
will be engaged in much greater game.
and that he will pursue it solemnly, ear
nestly, with his whole heart mind and
body-that everything else on earth will
seem of minor Importance in comparison.
And the tiny girl grooming her dolly
to sleep does not know that every swing
from the rocker brings her nearer to the
red-cheeked boy and the real babies.
Across oceans and continents perhaps.
stretches the tiny invisible thread of fate
and love that will bring them together.
1t Is so solemn, so wonderful. this
thing called love that brings Il man and a
woman together.
Nothing but love could make young
man voluntarily give up all sorts Of
pleasures and excitement: nothing but
love could take a woman from the shell
ter Of home to venture out on the uu-
known seas of matrimony.
But it must be a great love. strong. en-
during, patient. ready to forgive and for
get. to be just, generous and true.
Unless you can love like that you must
not marry. for marriage is the great test
of men and women.-Beatrice Fairfax.