Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1913-12-11
LIFE LOVE AND MARRIAGE.
Treated Far Too Lightly The Home
a Temple Wherein The Ark
Rests.

Life" knows something about
many things and too much, maybe,
about some things. It has its use,
| for who "makes two laughs when
there was only one laugh before" has
as great place in the world as the
proverbial "blade Of grass" grows,
nut there are thirgs too sacred for
'Life's" touch perhaps and one of
these is Love-
To well interpret Marie Corelli is
not in the line of Life" though love
3 really the lifeline that romance
writer's like Corelli throw out to a
nrosy old world OF men and women
aouhdering around the fotsam of a
turhid sea. If they idealize the love
of welded life, what better worth it'll
So far as we have evolved it is the
best thing yet found for realization
of Gods truth that shall give that
freedom for which humanity has
ever hungered, that liberation of pow
ers within the soul that eventuate in
happiest of biological and sDcial con-
iitions. 1t is the ark of God where
il is kept the sacred things of His
altar, and must not be touched by
acriligious hands nor made the butt
Of ridicule or the jest of buffoonery.
These are not to be put forth to
ste ady it even if it topples toward the
iivine courts, for it then takes
very reverential and conscientious
judiciary. It is because the approach
20 the temple of Home where this
Ark rests is too little guarded, that
men dare to laugh with Life" of
matters beyond the ken of the
thoughtless. Our young people hold
life and love and marriage far too
lightly. Two meet. dance we'll to-
gether and marry, thinking they can
keep step" equally we'll in the in
tricacies of home and charaeter-build-
ing. They do not know if they love
the same things, read the same
books, think like thoughts about fun
dame ntal truths or adore the simple
things that give color to the big thing
that goes on, and that we call lite.
Far be it from US to impress youth
too seriously with weight of respon-
sibility. 1t is the time for fun and
frolic and dance, hut il must be for
hidden it, to play fast and loose with
sacred things or to enter upon mar
riage for any reason except for that
love that Dinah bears the good
and patient Adam Bead, when she
says: ""Tis but a divided life /
love without thee" 1t has been
said that only the children of ex-
alted love have been successful peo-
pie, and it is a practical world in
which successful people, in the best
sense Of the word, are needed.
Therefore, let US have that litera-
ture in the hands of youth that
portrays ideal, pure, enhancing and
reve rental love between young
people. If its course, proverbially,
should not run smooth, it will
at least run, and run on into mid
die life and old age, none the worse
for it's jolts over stones and eddies,
but dignifying and hallowing the
home and enriching all who come
within its environment. country
is rich just in proportion to the
number of its happy homes.
There are more of these than we
know, because happiness has no
history, AMI does not make lively
reading for the newspapers, but it
is like fame in that it's shadows
follows those who walk towards the
sun. Happy people when the shad-
ows fall behind!