Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-12-16

young girl writes me that she is in love
with poor young man, and wants to mar
ry him, but that her mother bitterly op-
poses the match.
Mother hasn't a thing against the young
man except his poverty, but she wants her
daughter to marry man who give her
a fine house, and an auto lie, and Paris
Clothes and all the other appurtenances of
wealth.
Il want to save you from the life that
have had to lead" says the mother. II don't
want to see your hands knotted and W k
hardened. l don't want to see you grow OLD
I'bcfOre your time because you have not the
leisure or the money to preserve your youth
and good looks.
II don't want Iou to know the sordidness
of having to haggle over every penny. l
don't want you to know the wearing ankle
ty OF wondering esrerately where the mon
ely is to come from to pay the butcher, the
baker, and the candestck maker. | don't
want you to know the anguish that tear at
a mothers heart, as she sees her children
growing up, and knows that she cannot give
them the advantages that other people give
their children
Il married poor man for love when I
was your age, and what has it brought me-?
Domestic slavery. | thought, just as you
think, that money did not matter, and that
1 would live in a castle in Spain, but my
house of dreams turned out to be shabby
flat with the landlords clammering at the
door for overdue rent.
believe me, my child, romance doesn't
last. Husbands soon ceo., to be lovers, and
then the thing that counts to woman are
the things that money buys. Physical COM
forts Ease Amusements. Pretty frocks.
Travel These a-e the consolation prizes
tha+ life gives to the woman who is married
to a well-off man when it skaters her ilu-
sions about matrimony. But if she mar
ries poor man, she left empty-handed, as
we'll empty-hearted."
The woman who breaches this hard and
material doctrine to her daughter is not
the sordid wording she seems. She is a
good woman, a loving and tender mother
who doesn't realize that she is trying to in
duce her child to sell herself to the highe :
bidder.
She is just a woman who is worn out
with the struggles and hardship@ of narrow
means that she has lost her respective. She
has held a coin so near her eyes it has lot
til out the universe to her.
She has forgotten many things. She has
forgotten that there ere some things so beau
tiful and wonderful that they are worth any
price that we have to pay for item One of
these is the glory and fulfillment of young
love Perhaps romantic love does not often
last, but to have known the splendor and
the rapture and the circling wings Of it,
even for month, even for week, even for
day or an hour, is to have had ones great
moment and leaves one with q memory that
gilds the drabness of lfetim-
No money, no position, r. otor cars, COM
pensates a woman for missing this, and the
woman who has never loved is pOverty
stricken, no matter if she has the wealth Of
a CrOesus.
The mother who tries to :}duce nor daugh-
ter to marry for money forgets that the : heel
Of fortune turns, md that the poor man of
today may be the rich man of tomorrow, and
the rich man of today, the beggar of tomor
row. Many a girl who marries a poor, am
bilious, young man and sets up hOusekee~ ng
! in a two-rOom tage where she does her
own homework. spends the latter years of
her life in a palace waited upon by hosts of
servants.
Ard, the other hand. many a girl who
makes what her Mother considers a brilliant
match, and who takes her honeymoon on