The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1911-02-23
ONE OF LIES
ILLUSIONS

That Is the way the stories we
heard in childhood always ended. The
Zero and heroine married, and then
their troubles terminated. We were
always glad when they were safely
Joined, and all trials were over, and
everything was lovely.
Now, In real life, that period is inst
where trouble begins. 1t is a pity it
is true. but so it is.
The young girl does not think So.
Her young man does not think so.
The old folks croak about it, but the
young ones laugh at their cvil-omened
talk, and mutually assure each other
that once they are married, every
thing will flow on as smoothly as a
summer sea or a country mill pond.
And VIXEN. after marriage, storms
arise, and things get tempestuous,
the young people are disappointed,
and accuse each other of being to
blame, and they argue, and bicker.
and twit, and make themselves gen.
orally uncomfortable, because they
have not learned the lesson that we
old stagers learned long ago, that
life is a warfare" and there is a
good deal OF fighting to be done be-
fore We can stand inside the fortress
of peace and safety.
A woman might be an angel in
skirt and shirt waist, and a man
might be a masculine cherub in
trousers and side whiskers, and still
they cannot avoid trouble.
1t is the common lot. Nobody
lives happy ever after" No matter
how angelic your disposition, you are
liable to have %toothache. A saint. II
he should get a pair of ill-fitting
boots, would be just as likely to breed
corns as the most hardened sinner on
the fo%otstool. If John Bunyan had
eaten green apples, he would have
had as good a chance for the stom-
achache as any irreverent writer Of
pirate stories. The fact that he con-
ceived Pilgrims Progress" wouldn't
have saved him.
We are all subject to the laws of
universal nature. and W. cannot
evade them. We must take the con-
sequences of being mortal.
We might just as well make up our
minds to take things as they come,
and let them come without going to
meet them.
If you quarrel with your husband,
console yourself with thinking that
you are not the first woman who has
10r1 - ord 1yo,, will rrohoh11, Mt ia
the last. And it isn't likely that you
will live more than ninety-fve or a
hundred years to follow 1t up. And
if you die first, he will tell the min
lister who presides at the funeral that
you never gave him a cross word in
your life, and that you and he always
thought alike.
So your memory will be saved.
If your children turn out bad, take
the comfort home to you that other
people have bad children and have
lived through it. It Is one of those
things which is happening right
along every day, and there is nothing
remarkable about it.
Life is a series of disenchantmepts.
In our youth we cherish illusions, and
when experience has swept them
away we find fault with fate and with
Providence, and think we are hardly
used.
Every life, however sheltered and
protected, has It's sorrows and trials.
We cannot hope to escape them. But
we can make them lighter by accept
ing them as natural consequences,
and being willing to bear them as a
part of our discipline; just as we bore
the hard seats and the cross teacher
in school; just as we bore the spank
ings our good mother gave us in our
younger days, to teach US that our
ways were not her ways, and to i'm
press upon us the fact that all the
way along there is a guiding hand
higher than our own will which
shapes and directs our immortal des.
tiny.