Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-03-20

! cannot tell thcN when we meet
what Ilost ] long to say"
- Is easy to surround oneself with
lends, believing them to be con-
genial. But 1t 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.
A woman becomes acquainted with
n man. He is chatty, breezy, has a
fund of wit and humor at his tongues
end; is well versed in the art Of in
gratiating himself into the favor OF
the fair sex. She sees only the gilded,
polished side Of him. He proposes
marriage on an all-too-short acquaint-
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. II 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 a door to
quick wealth it's come easy, go
easy with many. It Is when the
young wife begins to expostulate with
her husband that she finds his pro-
testations Of undying love are but a
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 q 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, tyrannical,
abusive.
Love is a tender plant. It 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 a man
weds for any other reason save love
the union never turns out we'll. 1t
is a case of a broken staff ooner or
later for the wife. When a 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-
lieving she is a loved and happy wife,
when they are farther apart than
strangers? Where one woman would
be justified in clinging to the broken
spar Of her hopes, for her children's
sake, another wife, who has no little
loves that might be crushed by her
action, would feel that it was wisest
and best to sweep out the fragments
Of the broken idol and take up life
anew.
This Is one of the instances In
which marriage can become a failure
though entered into under the bright.
est Of auspices.
There are some women who. un.
wisely, lose all interest in life when
their idols are shattered. Others come
out Of loves crucible like refined gold
refusing to lose their grasp on life's
happiness. They school themselves tc
be once more their bright selves. Nc
heart, no matter how severely It has
suffered from a broken love dream
should give way to sorrow. It should
aim to draw a curtain between itsel
and the past through which 1t canno.
glance backward Better coax a smile
to the lips. Faith in mankind SHOULD
not be lost nor should one mistrus
the many for the faults of one.
Much happiness might come thu
way Of the woman who keeps he
heart aud hopes up. If a wife is de
'ermined that a mar should do right
and will c-cunteuance nothing else
husbands who have gone a long wa.
en- the wrcng path have been know,
+ 20 repent ard to turn over q peN
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