Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1915-07-02

there is one party in this country
which is making no mistakes. You do
not hear as much about them as you
do about the Republicans and Demo
Gratis, the ProgreSsives or the Social
lists or the Suffragists. But the little
June brides are going blind right. They
are standing upon the one plank plat
form of marriage, and they are living
up to it and they are being elected by
the right vote.
We may need merchant marine.
We may not have so large and power
full n navy as we ought to have. Our
exports may be too highly explosive
to ratify and confirm neutrality, our
imports may be falling of, finances
may wither like grass that is cut
down. II may be Il bad crop year, and
we may have more refugees to feed,
but one thing is certain, the brides
never fail us. They so right on getting
married in the face OF poverty and
every adverse circumstance. They do
not know how they will live. They
only know how they will love. They
believe everything they want TO be-
lieve and they do not know much But
they are in the right place, repairing
and replenishing life and love. They
are the Peace Foundation of the Flu
ture, our hope for the years to come.
No lasting harm can befall us so long
as enough brides join the colors of
Love in June. They are the bravest
of the brave without knowing it. They
are our bonds for title to the next
generation. They inspire energy, hope,
thrift, ambition, every good thing re-
Quired to make II home and nation.
But for their faithfulness presently
there could be no inheritance, or honor
or fortune
The wonder is that they Lave the
courage i'll the face of aii the udus,
all the facts, To keep on marrying with
such joyful confidence. But, usually
last years brides do not attend tins
years weddings. And il they did, il
would not make any difference. Love
is not blind, it is TOO wise 10 see.
Every man who deserts his wife.
every woman who goes into divorce
court, joins the belligercnts against
the brides. But il every bride to be
knew OF every divorce, would it make
any difference to her: Not any; ex-
cept possibly to hasten her wedding.
This hideous dissolution of love, it
would alarm her. She would be in n
hurry to prove love again-to her
SELL w ici luSDuilu. Mufflupc may
be contract, but it is also II miracle
which all the skcpticism and vice in
the world cannot destroy.
When a girl becomes wife, she
deliberately joins class which is
the object of ridicule from one end
of the country to the other. There is
not n vaudeville stage, not n musical
comedy, not II humorous moving pic
ture show in New York where the
wife lis not the joke. The libertine-
by-suggcstion clown in the perform
ance always bids for laugh from
the audience with sliit on his wife.
and he always gets what he bids for.
The most popular hit" is always
made at the expense of the wife. Her
virtues are caricatured; to make her
appear unlovely. odious, is always
one of the aims of humor on the stage.
Would any civilized country permit
its soldiers TO be so traduced? Yet
women who marry are also soldiers
enlisted for preservation and defense.
June brides go to the comic operas,
even If they never go anywhere again.
And they smile ut this spit-ball wit,
subimely unconscious of its npplca-
ton to them. OF course they love
their husbands, of course they would
be jealous, of course they want to
know where he is when they do not
know where he is. Still, nothing which