Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-04-03
NOT SURE OF HIM.

Love Is such a mystery,
/ cannot find 1t out;
For when I think I'm best beloved
I then am most in doubt"
The cleverest girls are those who
blunder most in their love affairs.
The girl who Is not 80 alert Is apt to
believe that all a young man tells her
is the gospel truth. With the clever
girl, it's his actions, not his words.
that count; though he may tell her
that she is his ideal in one breath and
ask carelessly in the next who the
girl was he met her with yesterday,
she is shrewd enough not to put Gre
dence in "the ideal remark nor is
she quite sure of him. AS for that
matter, no woman Is quite sure of a
man until she steps to the altar with
him. Many a girl thinks because she
is engaged that she is privileged to
say just what she pleases to him. She
pouts yer this and scolds over that.
quite willing that he should Goa her
into good humor. There Is a limit,
however, to the patience Of the best
of men. When he has reached that
stage, he might balk over the merest
trifie. The upshot of the matter is
they agree to disagree and 60 their
separate ways. Nor can the wife Of
a mans bosom expect to continue to
scatter her husbands opinions at all
times to the winds and to do as she
pleases. The best of husbands will
rebel once in a while. One can never
be positive as to what a man will real.
ly do under different circumstances.
Even a mother is not quite sure Of
what her own son will do. She may
be intensely anxious that he shall mar
ry some daughter in the social set In
which she moves. He may lose his
heart to the pretty shopgirl who sells
him gloves and marry her after the
short whirlwind courtship. A father
may work all Of his life and scrape
and save in building up a business.
The hope which he hugs to his bosom
for years is that ne is laying a foun-
dalton of his boys future career; that
he will take the feins out of his hands
when he Is ready to lay them down.
THE best laid plans of mice and men
Gang aft aglee."
No parent a be sure Of even his
own son. THAT kind of a life wouldn't
suit me-" declares the boy. It'll have
none Of it. It's too slow! An aero
plane for me and the life that goes
with it," The girl who has over-con-
ddence in her best fellow, asking him
escort home this girl friend or that
one when they happen to call upon
her, often sends forth her ship of love
upon a t~reacherous pea If the lover,
like the ship, returns to her no more,
she has learned her lesson; after that
experience, she let's her women friends
lind their own escorts.
No sweetheart can be too sure Of
holding wen the most faithful Of
II he finds her continually dull
his thoughts may turn slowly to some
other girl whom he knows that is al.
ways bright, who has a gladstone well
come for him.
In the other girls presence, time
Tits by On golden wings. No woman
sit down and worry over the pos
'ible chance of losing a man or let
him know that she does not feel sure
him. II she Is bright, of happy dis
position, cultivating a charming per-
'onality Is genial, and a chum in
ruth, always ready to go here and
here with him. entering heart and
'oul into the sports he likes, she may
that she has a better chance, the
world over, in holding his heart
all corners who might be pos.
ible rivals. Every man has one soft,
title warm spot in his heart If only
woman could reach It. II two hearts
re not wholly agreed, the woman
annot be sure of him. No woman
hould be disheartened because she
annot influence one particular man.
heir natures evidently do not har.
They would never be wholly
atisfied with each other were their
.cquaintance to end In matrimony.
The woman for whom a man would
i've his last dollar, aye the last drop
I blood in his heart, is the only be-
1g who would be u r of him.
This advice holds good for both
or wife. A man might
hange every seven years, but he Is
opposed to renew his lease on love
, 1t entered his heart for a tenancy
,r life. There never was a heart
reated but another heart was made
'r it. These and these only are u r
| each other.