Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1891 — The Way of It. [ARTICLE]

The Way of It.

When most pretty girls reach 19, they become engaged to some poor young man, and, as he hasn’t the money to marry on, they wait until he has saved it. The waiting process is a long and tiresome one. While the young man is having a good time, spending 90 cents and saving 10 cents for his marriage, the girl is growing a little older, a little plainer, a little more careworn, and wasting her youth in waiting for a man who in most cases finds some one more attractive, and breaks the engagement. If girls will look around at the great number of girls who have “waited” for some poor man to their sorrow, they will probably hesitate before entering into an engagement that promises to be long and fruitless, and that leaves them worn out, and with no faith in human nature at the end. Very often a girl who is waiting for a young man to become rich, throws away the real opportunity of her life; very often she is a slave to the caprice of a man who finally deserts her. Very often under such circumstance* a woman gets a wrong idea of life, and accuses the world of faults it is not guilty of. In a way men take very good care of themselves, for the reason that they accept the lessons of life, hard though they sometimes are, but women make the mistake of trusting too much, and suffering needlessly for it.—Atchison Glohe. Of the once powerful tribe of Tonkowa Indians only seventy-eight members remain. They occupy the reservation that was once the home of the Nez Perces, embracing 90,000 acres.