The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-07-24

too. But see here! I laugh and SYM
pathize with all OF you when see you
counting the girls. like your own dad
DIV over again, for all the world. 1t
makes me feel twenty-one, with the
whole world In sling again. You
needn't laugh. Tom. l saw you give
Miss Jenny that heart-shaped box OF
candy yesterday when you put her on
the train. ! gave your mother one just
like it about fifty years ago. and may
the Lord send you as good wife!
the matter before you give hostages to
fortune. 1t is a big speculation in
futures is marrying, take 1t as you
will. But there are some risks you arc
foolish to take. that Is ALL unneces-
sary risks. my dear sons Tom, II you
We're going to buy a canary bird for
the love OF its song what would you
do first of all?. Eh?"
sect a cage" murmured Tom sheep
fshly, and water and seed and let
tuce leaf or two a lump OF sugar to
coax with"
"Ahem," said his father. ''Tom. you
Now make the application. Get your
cage first, then your bird, Is my advice
to you, even If you have to put on
getting the bird for some little time.
Still the girl that loves you will walt
for YOU all right-the right girl. Ana
you don't want any other. Yes, get
your cage, then insure your life: then
be better still, in bank. Then you
can take the plunge matrimonial COM
tortably and safely. There are some
risks you must not ask your, wife, to
| a. Maryland friend of mine who has
grown old and bald and deaf and ut
| terly detected. but who used to be- the
handsomest and brightest Fellow at the
| No u, II fo rJJfv1 ra1
by marrying imprudently before he got
his feet in the stlrrups. He told me
once that he got three months behlnd-
hand the first year In his expenses.
wasn't the ten children nor the small.
J fixed salary that has made a martyr
! of poor Joe, and his wife Is a real help
| mate to him. fine creature. But ne
Many a man makes that mistake
Don't you make 1t, my boy. You have
got to do the swimming for two GER
| tain, perhaps for dozen. and you
| can't do II with q milestone OF anx-
! iety tied around your neck.
/ nm rose Tom Daddy" said he, you
have made a convert. I'll write, Jenny
and tell her quitesfrankly that we are
Be ct three. I shall advise her to learn
/ how to cook. keep house, make her
4 own dresses and trim her own bonnets.
/ And /. shall give up smoking ana bil-
Il llardS,t ana wear Haiiu- iiiC- uo"1 = p g.
ments and cut out my CLUB, ana III
I report progress to you and Jane once
I a year expect to be duly 9ua,iilled,
i certified Benedict after my daddy's own
pattern in a couple of years. IN three.
Il ali goes we'll, I'll have some sugar
for nv canary, an auto. trip abroad
-somethinS!
4 The Result.
I Well. those four young men are I'll
I married. They all have nice homes
Il that are tasteful and refined and COM
Portable, in a row, in one OF our Soull-
Il arn towns. They are rising or risen
l men In the community. They own
Il steam Yacht among them, a large con-
servatory and they have small put
4 we'll -chosen library apiece. Ihey dress
4 Iwell, live we'll, go In for athletlcs,l go
u to Baltimore for the opera, traVsl a
II little, entertain simply good deal
II One Of them has lost an arm one o.
them is very delicate; all OF them nave
i had rubs and dubs and ups and no"ns
II But they started right. They are M
telligent, upright, industrious men
they are devoted brothers: they nave
made the most Of their lives ana they
. all see the wisdom OF their father
u counsels and they sniff contemptu'
! ously when they read the :, runaway u sS q !
matches in the newspapers. They thinl
parents the compliment or telling then
ii that they are about to take the mos
ii important step In life--that father.
II blessing and a mothers prayers ar
VI worth having; that to marry In suel
\ haste has always meant repenting q
great leisure, and always will. eYel