Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-02-27
COLUMN OF HORRORS
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next few months there will be less of
the tragic in newspapers.
The European countries will still
furnish dramatic readings the admin
istration at Washington, d. C. will
serve us with much melo.drama; com
edy can always be found under Fire
and Suicide headlines, but we realize
/ that there is an unsatsfable demand
among our readers for topics Of a
/ grisly and grewsome nature so in this
column we will endeavor to recount
pathetically only the most horrible
things which come to our notice.
Among the subjects which will be
discussed here from time to time as
sufficiently horrible for treatment,
are: The High Cost Of Living, Fash.
. ions, Modern Dances, Legislative
Economy w, j. Bryan, Internal Ma
chimes, Mother-in.Laws, etc.
Today we have few things to say
upon the subject of love and matrimony
which is Of more or less interest to
the entire male and female sex Of this
country-less to those who have loved
and won and more to those who have
loved and lost.
Oh, why is woman; why is love; why
is matrimony! So raves the student
of femality, for as deeper he delyes
into the nature of woman the more
alike are they unto the fourth dimen.
sio-compex, many-sided and puz.
zling.
He studies woman in all her moods,
her whims, her ways, her follies and
the many secret workings of her mind,
and after half a lifetime of closest
obseryation' he takes her unto his cot.
tage with the feeling Of assurance that
no better choice could ever be made.
But time will tell--it may be DAYS,
! it may be months or it may be years,
when he awakes to the realization that
women like many other luxuries of life,
are not always what they seem. He
tears his hair and cries aloud: "Oh,
what is love, oh, what is matromony
The snare Of Satan, Pigment Of the
imagination or a fit Of temporary in.
sanity2
Yet everyone must live and learn;
but read and know what other men
have learned.
Her heart is like unto the weather
yet the mornings bulletin of her
breakfast disposition cannot always be
relied upon to furnish correct fore.
east for the ensuing day.
She may be a perfect SO and possess
beauty wit and virtue which delight
the heart Of man, yet unless she can
set before him dainty dishes that will
go we'll with his stomach, she has not
the quality which touches most deeply
For verify, tis true that cooking and
love are both fine arts but the finer
is good cooking
The treasure before marriage often
proves herself the treasury after,
Is not a wifes whole mission in life
submission to the wishes Of her better
half1
In some instances absence makes the
heart grow fonder and one is the grow
ing tondness of married man for
single life after several months with
an mdcyoted wife,
Surely, there is not such creature
az a perfect wife, still some are less
| J perfect than others.
Is a mans love so highly valued as
before it is gained or after it is lost 2
What brings to mans mind the sen.
sations and to his lips the variety Of
tastes like kiss upon the checks Of
a dolled up lady
4 golden ring set full Of diamonds
will more likely win n woman than a
heart full of devotion.
Marriage for excitement; divorce for
rest,
It's because many women make a
man feel ace high that he is taken in
like two'spot,
Take a womau's love, her opinions,
her criticisms seriously If YOU like, my
son, but don II take them too seriously.
/ The signing Of marriage certificate
often turns out TO be deep'dyed buuco
scheme for many a man.