The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-01-13

Your virtues are best discernet
when subjected to the severest trial
The hammer displays the excellence
of the diamond and the furnace ascer.
tains the purity of the gold Meek
ness is dormant quality until in.
iurtes call ii out. You let your char.
acter he blated: you let your inter.
ests be ruined, then IL will appear
how far these qualities govern and
control you. Remember Christianity
is cross as well as a crown: 1t Il
tnartyrdom as well as coronation; Il
. is exile ms well as home; it is tears and
par,ines as we'll las reunions.
why call ye~me Lord. Lord and
do not the things say" my friends
in your home and in your family life
Afiase9 Va A4,he basis 81 mutua,
attraction? Why did you marry that
girl9 Because she was a good locker
and could get herself up attractively ?
Why did YOU marry that young
FELLOW Because you thought that
when the old man kicks off and the
with rs prohated that he'd get sonae-
thing that he hasn't the ability to
earn? Why did you marry him?
Now. whenever girl gets too
proud to marry a young fellow with
a hundred and sixty acres OF land and
a hundred red hogs and lot of cows,
because he can't tell a tango from a
load OF hay--say, you put II down,
will you, as lead-pipe cinch that
she'n either die an old maid or she'll
marry some fellow on ten per with
one pair of Hole-proofs
Some Coed Dope.
Girls, If ] were you I'd rather mar
ry man who is man enough to wear
a pair of forty nine cent overalls than
to hook up to come Cuthbert who can
smoke Turkish cigarettes and live of
the old mans pension. That's good
dope.
II had the power TO enact my con-
victions into law would require and
that the prospective husband
he able 10 show something more than
the mere price OF a marriage license
He'd have to show an ability and a
to maintain a home: he'd
have TO show himself sound In mind,
sound In body and sound In morals
] want TO tell you. generations yet
unborn have the inherent right to be
we'll born.
There are muititudes Of peoples not
so much born into the world as they
are damned into the world, and their
fate is sealed generation before
their mothers kiss them, and IL their
Did grand daddy or great grand daddy
had been hanged for stealing horses,
he wouldn't be in Sing Sing.
The three plaques of modern times
are tuberculosis. alcoholism and ven
areal disease. The first is subject to
some sanitation--tubercul The
second, the saloon. alcoholism. is sup
posed TO be restricted by the law,
while the third has no control other
han the whims and the fancies. tho
iictations and the passions and the
us's OF lustful men and OF women
Like produces like--in horses,
togs. cats. dogs. canary birds and HUI
nan beings. These are days when the
armers OF this country are spend
Ing millions of dollars to develop
he highest, purest strain Of blood
n animals all over our land. They
rave learned. my friend. that blood
ellis. Bloods tells.
Somebody has said the hand that
'ocks the cradle moves the world.
The child gets his notion of God or
he devil largely from his mother, and
the devil finds no fault~ewith the
mother who sends her children to
'lay In the street for fear they will
year out the carpet II they stay in
ne house. and by trying to shine in
ociety she has no light for her own
home, and by spinning society yarns
many mother helps to make the
ope that hangs her own boy.
They say that 'Phidias. erecting a
tatue of Minerva. so inwrought his
Nf.rr t. l. NJ -
Ia retanra the image with
nut effacing the statZ@-so the moth.
Hr ineHacibly in1prints her charac-
eristics upon her child.
TAeg- Say-ef Sir Walter Scott that
lis mother was passionately fond Of
literature, and in Sir Walter Scott
We have one of the most prolific
writer's the world has ever known
who. after fifty years of age dis
'harged that mountain of debt that
was haveriag ever him like clouds
" adasuanf.
Fire CHARACTERISTICS.
They say of Lord Byron that his
mother was beautiful. naughty. intol-
,rably proud. and in Lord Rryon we
nave the very essence OF those charac-
eristics
They say OF Napoleon that his
mother was cold. self-centered, self
>ompiacent, md in Napoleon we have
he finest exhibition OF those charac-
+eristics that the world has ever
Snown.
oh. what a crown awaits for the
m other Of the Wesleys I'd rather
be old Susanna Wesley, with John
and Charles and that brood OF kids
than 10 have been Queen Victoria
with her prince OF Wales and the
heads. I would,
A friend of mine riding on train
out in Iowa--v-a fellow sitting right
behind him reached over and touched
him on the shoulder and said
Say. p3rd do you believe In a
woufan's love 90
NV friend said, Yes"
We'll. ! used to but I changed my
mind about, all of them but one" and
he put his hand in his pocket. pull
ed out piece of paper. unrolled it.
a photographA-and leaning over he
showed it in front OF my friend and
he said, That's my mother"
He said, II was married. The
tongues OF gossip started: they told
my wife l was faise--it was all a lie.
She believed them. got a divorce, mar
ried. Home broken up" but he said.
That woman's mother. She would
follow me across the country and II
were condemned she would have the
rope put around her neck or sit down
IN the electric chair, and die for me,
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