The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1915-08-27
BEGINNING LOVE. IN A
COTTAGE"

BEGINNING LOVE IN A
COTTAGE"
Copyright, 1915, by the Mcclure
Newspaper Syndicate.)
To-day love is ours
Why should we carelessly lose it?
This life shines on lovers
Just as we weak mortals use it.
It's time enough when its flowers
decay
To think of the thorns of sorrow,
In our tomorrow"
The only solace for young women
who have missed their girlish golden
opportunities is to turn to love and
matrimony, while their hearts are
tender and easily impressed.
More than one whose school-days
are over are forced into the know
ledge that they must start in to go
to work, or get married. Keeping
house for the father and mother is
not to their liking. If she is a sunny
hearted girl, and makes the best of
the hard time she has, they encourage
her to look about and marry early
and be sure not to miss good chance
Some time ago she met man who
paid constant attention to her. He
never invited her to accompany him to
places where it would cost him much
money, though he heard her mention
how well she would like to go to
places now and then. Moonlight
strolls, boat ride, or a picnic was
all that he showed an inclination to
take here to.
She could not master courage to
find out where the fault was, in keep
ing her away from the few costly en-
joyments which all her girl chums
participated in. She bIushed when
she told these many companions that
she didn't care rap about going out
many nights in the week with him.
Merry-goers know better. They laugh
ingly taunt her with either being
prude, or not much interested in young
men and girls whom she used to chum
with. How could the love she had for
him endure, when he did not appear
to be concerned about her pleasure, if
cost figured in it?
Yet she would have married him
had it not been for one reason. That
he insisted a man who would marry
wisely, should start in with wife
who would forego all expenditures ex-
cept those absolutely needed. That
they should begin their welded life
with love in a cottage That the hus-
band should be aided by the wife in
holding on to the family purse strings
while the married woman who never
had very much money to call her own
was happier than one who enjoyed a
palace, and was spoiled by luxurious
habits and gay fashions that Slapped
her life in idleness.
Should she break with this wooer
who was manly enough to teach her
the humble, yet better way to start on
matrimonial life? Or, was it wise to
hint that the best part of her days
she would give to washing dishes,
sweeping and busting the floors, with
no servants hand, all for the sake of
a dear little cottage, and the love of
the man she had wed?
No, don't hint that! her. conscience
told her. IF you do, the poor heart
tortured lover would run far and away
from you. Instead, girl-like, she fol-
lowed her best impulse, stood beside
the man who had told her the truth
and looked straight in his face, say
ing in low voice: "You have taught
me the true feelings of what I ought
to do, to become a real help-mate.
He had won her by not giving her
sentiment and words and airy promis-
es, but by the true persuasion that
made her heart beat with delight at
the prospect of beginning their 'love
in cottage" with surety of happi-
mess ever after.