Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1898 — STORY NEVER GROWS OLD. [ARTICLE]

STORY NEVER GROWS OLD.

Marriage and Courtship Are Jnat a* Popular as Ever They Were. “It is always interesting,” said a mid-dle-aged woman of wide experience, “to read up and study the whys and wherefores of the various articles on the subject of marriage. It always sets me wondering what maner of people they must be who look no further for their authority than the frivolous gossip of the day, who never take the trouble to go down into the heart of nature and the Impulses that govern humanity to find *ut why things are. Now, somebody comes forward and publishes statistics of marriage In the various cities, and bewails the fact that the proportion is in some places - much greater than in others. Then they sigh and mourn over it, and really fall to wondering what we all are coming to. “There seems very little in the situation to wail over, for marrying and giving in marriage is going on every day, and there is no good reason to suppose that the end of this is anywhere near. Courting is just as delicious nowadays as it was a hundred years ago, carping'critics to the contrary notwithstanding. “The prospect of a little home of their own is just as alluring as it was to our forefathers, and, everything taken into consideration, it is not much more difficult to maintain a family now than it was then. There are always foes *to fight, contingencies to provide against, always chances of disappointments; but in the main the sweet old story gets told with as much sentiment as ever, the goodbys are just as hard to say, and the welcome just as warm. It seems to me that people might be a great deal better employed than in worrying over the decadence of matrimony. Every article of this sort that is put into print is read by some one whom it may discourage or frighten, or fill with forebodings. This sort of literature is bringing about the very condition of affairs that it deplores, and more’s the pity that those who engage in it are unable to see the mischief they are doing.” ,