Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1890 — KEEP LOVE’S BLOOM. [ARTICLE]

KEEP LOVE’S BLOOM.

Advice to Girl* When Youth* Come Sweetheart lng. Choose yonr sweetheart carefully, wisely, and tenderly, my dear girls. Remember he is to be more than even this to you some day—he is to be your husband, for surely you are not one of the girls who have a sweetheart here, and one there, and give a little love to this one and a little love to that one, until when the real one appears the perfect bloom is gone from the peach, and she eannot give him What he offers her. You girls know very quickly when a man means more than ordinary friendship for you. You have an instinct that tells you that this big. good-looking fellow has come sweethearting, and that this is the time for you to study him a little bit Think out if his temper and yours are certain to agree well together; think out if his tastes and yours are alike, or if they can grow to be so; for you know, little women, if you want to be happy in your t married life you must loam the great and wonderful virtue of adaptability. You must choose your sweetheart as you do a new gown, so that he will wear well says the Ladies’ Home Journal, but you want him lor longer than winter; he must last through the long summer days and through the winter ones, and before you put your hand in his and tell him that you are willing to fight the battle of life together, think it all over well and remember that you are ehooslng your sweetheart, not for a day or a year, but for all through Hie, and, please God, if you love each ether enough, for after death.