Polk County news-gazette. (Benton, Tenn.) 190?-191?, 1914-03-12


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| What most / long 10 say
1t is easy to surround oneself with
friends, believing them to be con-
genial. But it is quite another mat
ter to break away from them after
their faults have become known TO
us. They have turned themselves
about our everyday lives, clinging SO
tenaciously that there is no shaking
them off.
woman becomes acquainted WITH
man. He is chatty, breezy, has
! fund of wit and humor at his tonguea
end is we'll versed in the art of in"
gratiating himself into the favor OF
the fair sex. She sees only the gildeds
polished side of him. He proposes
marriage on an all-too-short acqualnt-
ance She listens to his eloquent
pleadings and marries him.
| He boldly suggests they might as
we'll live with her father for the time
being If it is the first daughter he;
has married off her parent is delight.
ed. They are given the best room in
the house and waited on hand and
foot. There are men wise enough To
profit by the good fortune showered
upon them. Others cannot stand pros
perity If wedlock opens door to
quick wealth it's come easy, go
easy" with many. 1t is when the
young wife begins to expostulate with
her husband that she finds his pro-
testations of undying love are but
sham. Heaven pity the woman who
has the knowledge forced upon her
that she has been welded not for
love!
All goes as merry as a marriage
bell until father-in-law shuts down
upon him. When cash is not forth
coming and his runs low the mans
true character is revealed to the Wife
Descending affection which cloaked
his real sentiment drops from him.
She finds him.. angry, tyrannicala
abusive.
Love is a tender plant 1t cannot
bloom, and live in cold and chill. The
idol which she had enshrined in her
heart is thrown from its pedestal; lies
in fragments at her feet.
There are some affections which
can be patched up, though they are
almost torn in shreds. When man
weds for any other reason save love
the union never turns out we'll. IL
is a case of broken staff sooner or
later for the wife When woman
finds this state of affairs the question
arises in her heart:
Ought she to drag out a miserable
existence, deceive the world into be-
Iieving she is loved and happy wife.
when they are farther apart than
strangers? Where one woman would
Do justified in clinging to the broken
'par of her hopes, for her children's
iake, another wife, who has no little
owes that might be crushed by her
Iction, would feel that it was wisest
nd best to sweep out the fragments
f the broken idol and take up life
new.
This is one OF the instances in
1hich marriage can become a failure
hough entered into under the bright
st of auspices.
There are some women who, un-
,isely, lose all interest in life whc2
leir idols are shattered Others come
ut OF loves crucible like refined gold.
efusing to lose their grasp on life's
applness. They school themselves to
. once more their bright selves No
cart, no matter how severely it has
lffered from a broken love dream
lould give way to sorrow It should
m to draw curtain between itself
ID the past through which it cannot
ance backward. Better coax smile
the lips. Faith In mankind should
Il be lost nor should one mistrust
e many for the faults of one.
Much happiness might come the
~ Of the woman who keeps her
art and hopes up. If a wife is de-
mined that man should do right,
d will countenance nothing else.
Stands who have gone long way
the wrong path have been known
repent and TO turn over a new
IT,