Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-21

Lord Lyttleton.
kIVXTE are couple with matri-
wv monial intentions" writes :.
Fl. f. DO you think we can
live on SIC a week."
is $22 week enough to get married
on" asks ]. E. S.
Love has a way of forgetting rent
day and the price of meat that makes
love charming. one sails through
love affair as oblivious of the landing
and reality that await as if one were
sailing down a moonlit stream in a
dream. The two in the boat, the man
and the woman. are dreaming. Occa-
sionalIv one awakes long enough to
dreamily ask the question asked by
s. H. f. and J. H. S. but the dreamer
is afloat again in his dream boat with
out pausing for the reply.
Or If he waits TO hear it he smiles
incredulously at the argument that one
can not live on bread and cheese and
kisses. the price of the first two having
gone mp and the taste for the latter d.
minishing in proportion as the neces-
sitv grows for making it the sole means
of subsistence.
But love can hope where reason
would despair" and it is doubtful if
ever any jealous friend who wished to
prevent the necessity of calling ont a
wrec5ine crew by exhibiting a list Of
every days needs and prices was re-
warded for his pains. Those he tried to
save got married in spite of his array
of figures. and wrecking crews and
relief expeditions follow each other in
! close succession ever after.
Would it be possible for "a man and
! his wife to live on sixteen dollars
week? Put them in some little country
town where he pays ten month for
rent. and ekes out his income with the
aid of a little garden patch, and not
only is it possible, but if they are made
of the right sort they will soon save
enough to own that little home, and
| know rent day no more.
But no American born girl and boy
of to-day are made of the right sort.
| This is not a libel, unless facts be such.
What American girl marrying these
days receives a wash cub in her we'd
ding gifts? How many American girls
really know which comes first: The
starching or the bluing? Do you, S.
H f. or ]. II. S. know if the girl of
your dreams knows how to make Mon
days soup of the scraps of Sunday
roast? Can that little hand you like to
hold pattern the simplest garment?
Suppose she is a paragon of every
economical virtue, are you a good match
for her? Will you give up your cigars
without a murmur? Will you wear old
clothes and patches and find them
glorified by the light of love? VIII you
continue to love her when the burdens
the prfvations. the sacrifices, the mo-
notony Of a bare existence have made
her old and ugly before her time?
That little dream boat you are in will
soon bump against the landing, and
that landing we viii call Reality.
Every ailment that would weaken
Love awaits you there. And once at
tackled. Love soon sickens and, alas
Love soon dies.
With the loss Of love all happiness
ends. The faded garments you vii
thereafter wear are not more faded
than your life.
Don't expose anything so precious as
love to such unfavorable treatment. i
YOU can not give eacsl other up, and o.
course you can't, go into preliminary
training for meeting just such hard
ships as marriage will bring you.
In that way you will answer YOU
own questions. and they are questions
that no one can answer for you.