Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-08
The Boy Who Is
Going To Be
Married
By Ada Patterson.
BOY who is going to be MARI

tall, narrow, muscular Lad OF
the sort that Gibson likes to draw.
He has wealth Of long legs and Of
thick. iunglelike fair hair, and eyes
that. deep-set and gray blue may some
time grow shrewd and bit hard, but
inst now are lakelilxe eandor and full
of happy dreams.
There is a promise Of a superb
manhood in the boy. who is %, and
till crude and awkward as colt
al is a bit unsteady on his legs. but
w every day is nearing the state Of
I'm 7avy- boned, strong spirited, tire
,,o !, eady-going horse.
eSs emit seen the girl, but, of
) tells me there is no girl
W. n ~. VINO is in any respect her
Oh ris mother doesn't want him
5qu,'[ - I is father has offered to
him the equivalent Of years
pay - the vn nth will wait year.
T Tha how won't v, ait, and this is the
reason he gave ma
asne is the right h ind Of girl. Last
and the wear before I only
work I'd long enough an hard enough
70 nav for a vacation. = nao no IN
forest in life except in en-. toying my
self On my last vacation met ner'
and four days after we me- pro-
b posed and she said:
You must GO to work and ! foNe
Yourself. II you turn out to be 'pe
man = think you are, l will marry
you
The bov has been working steadily,
q has worked overtime in the evenings
has saved his salary and Is saving.
trading stamps to buy the family sill
YER 1t seems a fair start on the
road to success and happiness. Will
he reach the goal? 1t depends in very
large part upon the girl
Usually it's a bit tiresome, even ir-
ritating. to hear the failure or success
of a man laid at the door of a wom-
an. Usually the charge is untrue, and
# is a common, though not a uniVer-
sal truth that a man worth making
himself and that the sort that bears
the stamp Of woman isn't mucn
deeper than the trademark. But
here's boy whose feet have been
placed in the beginning Of the right
path. He needs nothing, except that
the girl. who starting with her hand
in his on the same path, keep pace
with him.
That is all. 1t sounds so little and
is so big an undertaking. ] wish the
girl who will start on the path in the
autumn could know a woman VINO
has been a pacemaker and gaitkeeper
on the matrimonial road longer tnan
the girl has lived, 80 years,
But since there is little probability
Of their acquaintance, shall tell the
story of the woman who has been
more successful il, the business OF Pc
ing wife than anyone know.
She began the successful way when
a young mining engineer proposed TO
her and she accepted him, but refused
the ring he rendered.
I'VE cant afford it now" she said.
wait until we have been married a
while and are more prosperous.
When she had been married nine
years she received her engagement
ring, one of the finest diamonds IN
the world. Barney Barnato, the dia-
mond king of South Africa, helped
to select it.
1T was a beautiful ring" she SAID.
Our children admired it very much.
It was good beginning that re-
fusal of the engagement ring ne
couldn't afford. After some quickly
passing years she has the privilege
Of helping him spend an income OF
100000 a year. On the thirty-nrst
IN anniversary of their marriage he ca
bled her from London:
Work alb right, but homeslcK'
Love- JACK.
She has been the mother of SIX
children, four OF whom are young
sters full of the busy business of liv-
my Two VINO are DCdullluAi oe.Ns.0
ing memories. She having obtained
leave from a hostile government 70
take her husband from his cell at q
political prison, nursed him back to
life in a more friendly climate, ano
when he insisted upon going back to
be tried for his life, because he salo
his honor demanded his keeping the
terms of his sick parole, she journey
ed back with him and waited al OF
one night, anguished, within sight OF
his prison walls for the dawn or the
day set for his execution, both lgno-
rant that a pardon was prepared.
Her husbands quiet comment or
his heroism was IF were placed n
a position of great danger should
choose no man, but two women
know, to share with me--my WIFE
and my sister"
While her husband was holding
conference on one of the most I'M
portant events of his life, one II
which his life's ambition was a.
stake, this wife sat up in bed Knit
M ing slippers to steady her nerves un'
III he returned to her with the news
OF the outcome of the conference.
J asked this successful wife hel
recipe for success in married lie ane
she answered:
My dear husbands recipe is mine
10 teamwork. Another has been u
always believe the best of him at al
uines. And for husband training
thlnS wife should first look to SELF