Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1911-03-07
ONE OF LIES
ILLUSIONS

Apd they lived hapry ever aIteft
That is the way tie s;osies We
heard In childhood always ended. The
hero and heroine marrieG. and then
their troubles terminated We were
always glad when they we're safely
Joined. and all trials were over. ana
everything was lovely.
Now. in real life, that period IL tuse
where trouble begins II is a pity -
is true. but so IL is.
The young girl does not think -.
Her young man does not think -.
The old folks croak about IT, but the
young ones laugh at their evil-omsnsA
talk. and mutually assure each othca
that once they are married. svsryi
thing will flow on as smoothly a. .
summer sea or q country mill pond
And when. after marriage. storms
arise. and things get tempestuoua
the young people ara Aisappoints4
and accuse each othef Of being q
blame, and they argue. and bioksa
and twit. and mako themselves goo
have not learned the lesson that We
old stagers learned long ago. ths4
life Is a warfare" and there IN o
good deal of lighting to be done DO
fore we can stand inside the fortress
OF peace and safety.
A woman might be an angel IN
skirt and shirt waist. and a maa
might be Q masculine chsrub In
trousers and side whiskers. and sim
they cannot avoid trouble.
It is the common lot. NobodT
lives happy ever after" No matter
how angelic your disposition. you are
liable to have toothache. A saint. n
he should get a pair Of Uniting
boots. would be Just as likely to breed
corns as the most hardened sinner oA
the footstool. II John Buryan ha<
eaten green apples, he would have
had as good a chance for the stoue3
achache as any irreverent ritter a
pirate stories. The fact that he cond
ceIved Pilgrims Progress" wouldn'S
have saved him.
We are all subject to the laws q
universal nature, and we cannot
svade them. We must take the con,
sequences of being mortal.
We might Just as well make up our
minds to take things az they come.
and let them come without going %
meet them.
II you quarrel with your husband.
console yourself with thinking that
you are not the FIRST woman who has
done 1t, and you will probably not be
tia la M anbt ItLAIw not
will live moro than ninety-nve or a
hundred years to follow II I'd. And
II you die first, he will tell the ain
lister who presides at the funeral that
you never gave him q cross word in
your life. and that you and he always
thought alike.
SO your memory will be saved
the comfort home to you that othsU
people have bad children and hare
lived through 1t. 1t is one Of those
things which ia happening right
along every day, and there is nothingl
remarkable about II.
Life is a series of disenchantments.l
In our youth we cherish illusions, and
"hCA OAPCAiCh hdS bWcpl luoulI
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 consequential
and being willing 10 bear them as a.
part of our discipline; just as we borel
the hard seats and the cross teacherl
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 thel
way along there is a guiding handl
higher than our own will which,
shapes and directs our immortal des-t
tiny.