Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 188, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1917 — MARRYING AGAINST WISHES OF FAMILY [ARTICLE]

MARRYING AGAINST WISHES OF FAMILY

By LAURA JEAN LIBBEY.

An old farmhouse with* meadows wide. Sweet with clover on either side; A bright-eyed youth, who looks from out The door with woodbine wreathed without, ... . i (. Wished this one thought all the day: “Oh, if I could but fly away From this dull spot the world to See, How happy I would be." What youth of one and twenty and tnaid of sweet sixteen If they happened to become enamored of one another would not tell you that there is just one person in the world for them, and each, has met that one? It is all in vain for relatives or friends to attempt to dissuade them from their feeling. The young man declares he will leave home and all belonging to him and go out into the world to earn fame and fortune for the girl he has chosen. The maid declares that if she cannot wed the hero of her. heart she will never, never marry. Though her lips may not complain her sad eyes will tie a reproach to those who have separated her from her love for all time to come. How the parents are to deal with such a determined young couple is a problem. The youth’s parents know that it is his nature to fall quickly in love, and as quickly climb out of it. The girl’s parents realize that the kind of man who fills her fancy at sixteen she would possibly be heartily tired of at two and twenty. . r They met at a ball. The girl in her tulle party dress, white gloves, white

slippers and pink roses, looked very alluring. He has taken henhome from dances, perhaps a half-dozen times and at the end of that time proposed marriage. Neither had peeped beyond the first chapter of the book of life. Their entire conversation had been about other girls and boys—what a jolly good time they had had at the skating rink or barn dance. Yet these two kldlings considered themselves in love and had the notMn that they ought to Red. The boy’s father does his best to have a serious talk with his son, endeavoring to make him -understand that married life is something more than continuous love-making; that it entails obligations, such as winning the support of two, to start with; that a pretty sweetheart transferred to the kitchenette is not always the amiable companion a youth fondly believes she would be. The girl’s parents do their best to make her understand that a young man should have at least a start in life before he essays matrimony; that all love-making, no work, would put out the kitchen fire. If, despite earnest parental advice on both sides, the young people take their own heads and marry, they have only themselves to blame for much of the tribulations that may follow. Parents on both sides should be eager for the match, then it will turn out happily. (Copyright, 1917.)