Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-01-03
ONE or LIES
ILLUSIONS


That Is the way the stories We
heard IN childhood always ended The
hero end 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, IA real life, that period is just
where trouble begins It is a pity 1t
is true. but 50 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 az their evil-omened
talk. ard mutually assure each other
that once they are married, every
thing will flow on as smoothly as a
summer sea or country mill pond
And when. 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 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 man
might be q 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, If
he should get a pair of Uniting
boots, would be Just as likely to breed
corns as the most hardened sinner on
the footstool 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 we 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
done it, and you will probably not be
the last And 1t isn't likely that you
will live more than ninety-fve or a
hundred years to follow it up And
if you die first, he viii tell the min
lister who presides at the funeral that
you never gave him cross word in
your life. and that you and he always
thought alike
So your memory will be saved.
II your children turn out bad, take |
the comfort home to you that other
people have bad children and have
lived through it. 1t Is one of those
Kings which is happening right
along every day, and there Is nothing
about It.
Life is a series of disenchantments.
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 its 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
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 guiding hand
higher than our own will which
shapes and directs our immortal des-
tiny.