Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1915-08-06

quiet, thrifty young man who Is very
chary of spending his hard-earned
money for clothes, content to look
plain and neat, certainly realizes that
he has an ~extravagant sweetheart If
the girl shows up a new hat OF gown
almost every time he takes her out.
Knowing her circumstances, that her
folk are poor and have their own trou-
bles in skimping to make both ends
meet, he should not need outside ad-
vice to warn him that the pretty girl
who puts every cent she can scrape up
into finery for her personal adornment,
while the family has scarcely enough
unbroken china to set the table, lives
only for show.
When she weds she will employ the
same tactics. She will have gilt chairs
for the parlor, risking the limb and
life of the unwary who t~houghtlessly
sit down upon them, simply because
gold furniture makes such an excellent
show. She'll have a chicken for din
e nights until every member Of the
family is ashamed to look a hen in the
face, because, while doing her mar
keting she is sure to meet all her neigh
bors; it makes a show before them to
order fowl while they are economical
ly purchasing chuck steak.
There are no heights to which the
ambition Of the e%xtravagant wife may
not soa in her determination to make
a show, unless curbed gently, but de-
cisively. If regard for a lovers opin-
Ion cannot be inculcated in a girl be-
fore marriage, he is foolish to hope
for it afterward. Show will always
come first; peace, comfort and happi-
ness are after considerations. If they
can be wedged in, we'll and good; if
not, she gets along without them.
Show becomes SO much of a habit with
social climbers that 1t sweeps aside
judgment, love, kindness and SYM
pathy for even those who need her aid
In saving.
The children Of such a mother can
not be blamed for getting the impress
sion that all things are shams-wom-
ans beauty, love and fidelity; that
honor and truth are only names, bub-
bles a breath may blow away.
He who goes through loves garden
blindfolded should not complain Of the
wound of a brier If he has plucked a
rose that would better have been left
on the bush. A straw shows which
way the wind blows. Girls who are
all show blazon the placard to the
world which reads: Beware, take
care!" A man who welded a girl who
had the "make-show'' habit to the ex-
tent that it was fairly a craze with
her had an experience which illus
trates the folly to which it may lead.
His wages were modest, but by deny
ing himself everything that he could
absolutely do without he managed to
save up enough to buy the %housekeep-
ing tft for a small fiat to which he
III. 'Hnned to take his bride. To his
dismay, he discovered in going over
the items, that a tablecloth for the
pretty dining table had been over
looked. 81 will furnish that" promised
the mother, remembering a handsome
hand-embroidered cloth she had
worked with her wi hands for her
own wedding and which was her choic-
est treasure.
Accordingly the handsome linen Ia
BILE spread was duly beribboned, boxed
and dispatched to the bride-to-be. Less
than a week later the girl, who was
ain show, met her future mother-in-
law on the street. The elder woman
beheld her gowned in a sumptuous Gre
alton of fine linen and hand wrought
embroidery and lace. Yes, it is, the
tablecloth," laughed the girl, antici-
pating the others question. 1T was
really a shame to use it as a table
cloth. have made a stunning dress
out of it, haven't II"