Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1916-05-12
IF WE ONCE KNEW.

Two thorrhts that are truest and hraNest
Are tbe ones that are never expressed
And the tender love thou cravest
somehow is never confessed.
THE rose that is sweetest and fairest
liz the bud that is killed by the frost
And the love that is dearest and raresl
Is the true love we have lost
Typerlence is a wonderful teacher
Those who get their fingers IN the !
fame once take good care that it shall |
not happen again. A girl may have
had half a dozen beaux ere she col
Iects sense enough to fill the bill Oh |
what a marrying man is looking for
when he weds.
| II she has been jealous of her first
sutton she is careful to hide any trace
! If it from the second young man. IL
she loses him by a display OF eXtraVa-
gaDce. which he takes pains to com
ment on. she is sure to tell her next
admirer she makes all of her own
clothes knows how to cook and bake
and she thinks waste is such sin II
she loses him by flirting she Is pretty
sure not to err in that direction when
another lover comes on the scene
Had she possessed as much knowl-
edge at the outset as she did when all
NJ her beaux weared Of her and rode
7wav she would have been wise
enough to have held the heart Of her
/ first lover. who is often the best OF
the lot. A mother thinks she can
3 {ronress upon her daughter the knowl'
edge Of the world from her expert
j ence8.
4 But no two admirers are alike. What
Il one man may consider girls playful
y moods another will regard as faults Il
y ,ca knew in the beginning what We
D find out to our loss later on, how diner
Il emf our lives might turn out! fouti
e ia the happy stage Of inexperieuce
j. How can it be expected that old head
IT should sit on young shoulders? Fac
~ one must learn her own lessons.
1t knowledge comes with years, Iher
to are men who do not relish the idea {
plaving teacher to a youthful VII
is They had rather have one who had a
10 CURED all of her lessons and was reHd
III to profit by them.
ne 4 happy home depends much on
or rifo's tact. her ability to keep d
Is, husband interested in her. The trouD
IN of most households that have domes'
ed. fouds Is that the wives in such nom
oh howe little or no knowledge OF |
nix moods Of the general run Of men. II
led thew this intuition they could II
all tboi. husbands without their know
ley they were ruled. ,
am There are big, brave men VINO
'pe to be petted and coddied. There
an noorisb husband, who puts his WI
Who Torvos on edge, who should be de
Of With kindly. but firmly. The won
Who has learned her lessons from
nor;ence knows men are never so
en- learned. so great that they do
o,ioy being fiattered wee bit on
ming riqbt occasions. 1t means, TO them
,rociation Men who know 1t all III
ltom soIves are. on the contrary pc
+ TIoased with wives who have hal
schoollng in the worlds ways. !
do not attempt to teach them but
most sist in their remaining IN happS
sked 1orance which means contentmen
of ground. They believe Where Il
Yes ance is bliss, It's folly to be "
have Tho, wouldn't have thought thf
lntry heir earlier years. That was pee
ANTS. tbev didn't know then as much o
+ Girl and what constitutes happines
they know now,