Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1914-07-07
TAKING A CHANCE ON HAPPINESS
I'M WEDLOCk.
Happy, happier far than thou.
With the laurel on thy brow,
She that makes the humblest hearth
Lovely but to che on earth.

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There are very few girls who are
blessed with a model lover, man who
has no faults. From the time his Wis
its indicate serious intentions, the fam
lily OF his sweetheart begin to specu
late as to what faults he may have
Love is blind, they concede, declaring
among themselves that it is wisest and
best to point out his shortcomings
Then she will not jump blindly into
matrimOny
Her father insinuates that mans
sponge who comes calling on a girl
Sunday afternoons and remains until
the dinner bell rings, accepting her in
vitation to dine. Company dinners are
more expensive than the plain, whole
some meals the family sits down to
Mother thinks daughter has made a
happy choice of sutton, insisting that
not one young man in hundred would
be so considerable of her daughter as
to provide a carriage when he takes
her to the theater, even if it's only a
few blocks off. And he dresses with
such perfect taste, and sends her flow
ers evenings he does not come.
That's sheer Extravaganza" cuts
in Uncle Ned. 1T may do for a mil
lionaire not knowing the need of
money 1t isn't the proper caper for
a man who earns thirty per, or so. I'd
think more of his counting his pennies
if he thinks of marrying"
Aunt Ellen fears he's inclined to
flirt She has seen him walking with
young ladies, and each one he seemed
to pay marked attention to. One or
two OF the girls she mistrusted to be
dreadful coquettes. Her brother was
of the opinion that he wasn't
stranger to the wine cup. He had run
across him at a bar in q cafe, A
chorus of What took you Jhere?' he
silenced by lame excuse--he stopped
to buy a package of cigarettes! The
way he looked from one to the other
said palmer than words that he hoped
the cigarette part would be believed.
By the time the family sum up the
lovers faults they made it appear
that the girl would take a hazardous
chance on matrimony if she married
him.
There are maidens who accept these
insinuations as truths. Other girls de-
mand stronger proofs of the short
comings Of the man in whom they
placed faith and love. She valiantly
defends the absent one. If he visits
her Sunday afternoons she knows he
is with no one else. The hours are all
too short. Manlike, he does not stop
to consider the extra preparations for
one more at the table. Didn't he bring
a cane for father, a sewing basket for
mother, an expensive pipe for Uncle
Ned, a book for Aunt Ellen and a
charm for brother Toms watch chain?
The cash for these peace offerings
would more than set their table for
a week.
Can he turn his head the ether way,
pass by his women friends, if they go
in the same direction without few
words Of pleasant greeting? l couldn't
care for a. man who would show dis
courtesy to my sex. AS for extrava-
gance, a lover should be pardoned for
indulging the whim of girl he loves
once in while, even if it is a strain
on his pocketbook. Both understand
tacitly that it will be trolley cars for
them after marriage. Some men have
but one fault. If it does not lead to
excess it can be broken up, if his love
for the girl who condemns 1t is of
sufficient strength. What can be ex-
pected from the man who conceals
his follies? She can decide if it is
safe to take chance in wedlock with
the man who is open and aboveboard
in all he says and does.
Few if any men have the wisdom of
Solomon. Love is a correcter OF
foibles. The good qualities of lover
should be found out, given credit. If
only perfect men went TO the altar
nearly every girl would live and die
spinster.