The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-24
EVENING CHAT
BIZ RUTH CAMERON.

You may carve it on his tombstone
You may cut it on his card
That a young man married
Is a young man married"
There is very well known business
man in this country-so we'll known
that if should name him you would
instantly recognize hinl-who goes
about preaching the doctrine that
there is nothing in the world hampers
a mans success like marriage.
His father, he says, would have been
a successful capitalist instead of a
poor man, if he hadn't gone and ham
pered himself by marrying.
(Where he would have been under
these circumstances. this misogamist
incidentally neglects to say.)
His favorite quotation is, HE travels
fastest who travels alone"
Now if this great man were the only
man who felt and talked this way. no
harm would be done.
But unfortunately he is only a type
one of many. EVERYWHERE young
business men are hearing the cynical
warning: Don't hamper yourself by
marrying young-'He travels fastest
who travels alone"
Perhaps he does. I'm not so sure
myself, but won't try to dispute that
now.
But stop a minute and think-he
may travel fastest who travels alone,
but how much interest and amusement
does he get out of the journey. COM
pared with the man who is content to
retard his headlong speed by a COM
panion.
Fast travel is the obsession of the
twentieth century. And fast travel,
not only for the sake of getting any
where quickly and of saving time, but
for its own sake.
People seem to have somehow got
ten the notion that the only way to
find happiness is to run her down in
some high speed outfit-a seventy
horsepower automobile or a Maure-
tania. or a mile-a-minute limited or
an airship.
That happiness should ever climb
into the d-fashioned buggy or slip
out of the hedges and grasp hands
with the footfarer, and trudge along
with him to the journeys end, seems
an impossibility to the typical TWEEN
tieth centurnian.
Personally, I have a kind of notion
of course, it may be quite unfound-
ed-that happiness doesn't like to be
hurried too much and that she rather
fancies dwelling with people who
know the meaning of such grand old
fashioned words as serenity" and
tranquility
"He travels fastest who travels
alone'-yes, if there is nothing that
you care about on this journey but
rate, with a cloud of dust behind. that
may be an unanswerable argument
against matrimo ny, young man.
But if by any chance you are one
who cares something for the beauties
by the way, remember that even
slackened speed may be compensated
by having someone to enjoy those
beauties with you, to listen with you
to the robins song in the spring and
love the richness of harvest and the
scarlet flame of the maple in the fall
when fall must come. to exu1t in the
freshness of the morning and to I'M
derstand the grandeur of the setting
sun when it must be eventide.
OF course. I do not like to see young
people rush into foolish marriages
which they will soon be persuading
some judge to unite.
But quite as little do I like to hear
too much of this talk about putting
off matrimony until the man is 80 or
35, until he can supply his wife with
all the luxury her fathers home has
gradually acquired, until marriage
means no sacrifice at all.
If had a son, I should pray that
he might meet the right girl and be
married, at least by the time he
was 25.
Perhaps he might not travel so fast
as if he travelled alone, but I'd be will
ing to risk that for him.