Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 231, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1918 — VERY LIKE MOST MOTHERS [ARTICLE]

VERY LIKE MOST MOTHERS

Mrs. Ripple at First Could Bee Very Little In Girl Her Son Had Chosen for Wife.

Tears ago, when the Billows were trying to keep Dora from marrying Nathaniel Ripple, Mrs. Ripple was trying to keep Nathaniel from marrying Dora. The Billows didn’t think much of the Ripple family; Claude Callan writes in Kansas City Star. In fact, they told Dora that if she took Nathaniel she would be marrying beneath hepself. Mrs. Ripple didn’t know that the Billows considered themselves better thap the Ripples, so she was not angry at the family. And she liked Dora. “I think Dora is a good, sweet girl," she said to her son, “but anybody can look at her and tell she isn’t able to do a day's work. “You can-do as you please, but if I were you I never would marry a delicate girl like Dora. I know how much work a woman has to do in a home and I know that Dora Billow can’t do it If yen. were able to hire help It would be all right. Your poor old mother never has had ary help, but I would be glad for my sons’ wives to keep help If my sons could afford it “Now, as I said, I haven’t a word to say against Dora, but if I were you and wanted to marry I would find a girl strong enough to make a good wife. It is nice to be pretty. Your papa will tell you that I was pretty when T married him, but beauty counts for very little if a woman is too weak to do her work. “Just look at your Cousin Henry’s wife. She is sick half the time, hnd that , poor boy has to spend every dollar tie makes. If Nora had been a big, strong woman, who could have helped he would be well fixed today.” After listening to this talk Nathaniel married Dora and in about a month his -mother visited them. When she returned home she said to Mr. Ripple: “I think Nathaniel married mighty well. That little girl had all the clothes on the line when I got there, and they were as pretty and white as you ever saw— I said from the very beginning that Dora would make Nathaniel a good wife.”