Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1913-11-27

some very complimentary siiasions 20
pretty little lassie of Sequachee Nal-
4 ley who got fooled in marrying an ed
/ itor and has had a hsr1 tims ever
since:
Now, Roy, you Just keen quiet.
/ William has had some experience VAN ~
that intangible, invisible force we can
{ love and be knows how IT makes q IdI-
: low get hustle on himself: As 70 u
Of course. be is guessing But that rs
all right let him guess again. ne
! 6idn't give me time TO guess ne
eaptuIed Que Of my school girls-one
OF my very best students ana was
tied up for life before | knew bloom,
in thing about it He is far aheao
of either of us in this particular race
If he hasn't the advantage in age. ne
certainly has in experience; SO let nlh
alous. Perhaps we have both, ike
Billie, bad some thought of that mar
ried state and we know that there Is
an aga for marriage and that marriage
has its cares and clouds. Som etlmes
l. is degrading, bringing one OF
higher plane to that of the other ON
much lower and vice versa. OFTEN tne
marriage is foolish one, and as john
shelton said in the fifteenth century:
"The man that doth wed wye,
Tor her goodies and her rychesse,
And not for lygnage femynatyfe,
PrOcureth doloure and dystresse
With infynyte payne and hevynesse,
For she wyll DO hymn moche sorrowe,
Both at evyn and at norrowe.
Thomas Moore pOrtrays to us the
arrangement that so often follows
marriage, telling of the joy that ac-
compsnies the beginning and how
rude word may make breach that a
ruder word will widen, etc, until
"Voices lose the tone that shed
A tenderness round all they said;
Till fast declining, one by one,
The sweetnesses of love are gone,
And hearts SO lately mingled,
Seem like broken clouds.
or course, marriage has its SORROWS,
but we must remember that many are
unit for this relationship. Isaac
Watts told in poem his idea Of this
mating. He seemed to think that two
minds had been made in the same
mould and had been flung upon the
bl eeze to drift in different directions.
II they CHANGED to meet at some fu-
ture time when they were clothedwith
flesh and had grown to maturity, hap
py were they. But if they never met
and formed other partnerships they
would be unsuited and the result
would be anything but pleasant. At
least, it was likely to be
Lord Lyttleton would have us know
that: "Even in the happiness choice,
where fav' ring heaven has equal love
and equal fortune given" that the
Prize of happiness must still be won,
Julia Ward Howe tells us that the
girl with ready smile on the chosen
festal day POUNDS either temple or
jail If temple it may be open to
the deadliest things. She therefore
admonisaes all to keep its chambers
purged with prayer because faith can
guard it and love is rare. y
With all our thinking and planning
ann guessing, if there be any idea of
tlGt marriage relationship that our
friend William mas alluded to 1t
would be we'll to read au1 study
John Millions poem on the Purity of
Marriage" and to remember the pledge
Thomas Moore gives us when he says:
'Fron this hour the pledge is. given,
From this hour my soul is thine;
Come what will from earth or heaven,
Veal or woe, thy fate be NINE