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33 @@3@@§@39 . o-.- W3©©339d33$ :1 IHI THE DURHAM CHRONICLE 91mg _. “m“--- ‘. Butthatwaaaiongtimeamsweety heart. a long time ago. and it doesn‘t interest you much no doubt. beans your dear little head is so full of your own happiness that 5 our daddy’s by- gones pass you by, like the summer winds. unheard. Besides. that wasn’t what I intended to write to you about when I sat down at this faraway desk. Ihere are a great many thinza i want to say to you. I’ve learned a Map. lit- tle girl, since I had that tussle with lohnson forty years ago. and maybe home of the thug; I’ve learned my er the north or the south side of the road was the better for traveling, and we persuaded them to keep in the mid- dle of it. It might shock you if I told you how we did it, but you must re- member. my dear, that we were young and hot blooded and the situation war- ranted extreme measures. At any rate. we thought so. and we carried Johnson home on the soft side of a pine boand. Lord, what a heavy man he was! My arms ache yet when I think of it. We left him to the willing and-active min- istrations of his wife, and before he could get out of bed the next morning we were with him again. Maybe we didn't stay with him that day. and maybe we didn’t watch every stitdi that his nervous fingers put into that suit! Two or three times he tried to break loose, but every time we forced him back to work. .Even at that it was dark and one sleeve of my coat was only busted in when I rushed frantical- iytomy roomtodress. Igottoyour mother‘s home ten minutes late, and all during the ceremony I was in mor- ask your moth- er's advice about A it, and she tn- vored the white one. Of course What a swcu your her preference daddy was- settled the busi- ness, but my memory still lingers fond- ly on that yellow vest. I wore a rumed shirt that it took my old colored mam- my a whole day to iron and a blue' necktie that made the little stars twin-' klc, it was so brilliant. Ah, my little girl. you can’t imagine what a swell your daddy was when he was a youngster. Did I ever tell you about the time I had getting my bridal suit? I don’t believe I ever did, and this is a most appropriate time to reveal to you one of the dark chapters of my life. There was only one tailor in our town, and he wasn’t much of a (11111:. Besides, he had a habit of looking on the wine, or its Missouri equivalent. when it was most inconvenient for hh customers. His name was Johnson. but It wasn’t Andv. He resembled Andy in his aflection for certain brands 0! corn juice, but that was as far as the likeness went. Well, I had given John- son pretty free range and oodles of time in the matter of my outfit, and I made it a point to call on him every day and give him a mild lecture on the evils of intemperance, particularly when wedding clothes were involved. I held him up pretty well, and he was getting along fine with the job until the day before the great one when an old pal of his from Kentucky blew into town. Then Johnson tell, and so did my hopes. I was going home that night, with my feet in the tall grass and my head up in the solar system somewhere, as happy as a honeybee in June, when I met the tailor and the Kentuckian coming up the road. They were arm in arm, and the Appian way wouldn’t have been wide enough for them to navigate without butting into the fences. They were vainly endeav- oring to sing “We won't go home till morning,” and I knew Johnson well enough to be satisfied that they wouldn’t-‘nor the next day either, un- less I got a move on myselt. I changed my mind about going home. Instead I rounded up my best man elect. and t1)- gether we started out on the trail. We found them still undecided as to wheth- [Copyrighn 1906. by Casper 8. Yost.) 1. ,5; Y DEAR LITI‘LE GIRLâ€"l - ‘ a? have just received your deb lightful letter telling me all about the preparations for your wedding. It carries me back to the time. some forty years ago. when your dear mother was making similar arrangements and I was doing a little stunt in the same line myself. In those days the fashions in joyous ap- parel for men were not so rigidly fixed as now. All your William will have to do is to raise the price. In my day it was different. To be sure, the cut of a man’s coat and trousers and hat for such occasions didn’t admit of much variation, but he had more lat- itude in the matter of color and goods, and as to \vnistcoasts, shirts and ties. he could go as far as he pleased with- out fracturing any rules had enciugh to shock society. I vividly remember what a deuce of a time I had try- ing to decide be- tween a bright yellow waist- coat covered with little blue flowers and a white one with black dots on it. I finally had to STARTING REBELâ€"Settling Down the M0151 Important Mo! the Busi- nessâ€"Hmpinm ls Mule.“ Found. Don't Stu! Wmng by Making m Ex- pensive Bridzl Tour. I 0‘ JP The Making of a Successful Wife By CASPER 5. YOST. Handing Down Adviou. of that coat deem puma: manent unhappinem. I don’t m whether you remember Name Ander- son or not, butshemamtghtifln' gm. and when she married M every- body said it was an ideal numb. will” ever that maybe. Mmtoflon! bridal trip with the unnamed Inten' flan of making thing: hum. And they did. Tom Ind b m m for ma“ money to get on. and back did ”kerb-WWW 1'!“ v and yonder tryingfio cover as Inna gromid In a given period as their 19 will stand and getting poem Md tempered and broke in the panam- [t's a bad way to start. nu dear. It stocks a weight on you that }t my An‘ have crossed over the line that set)- arates the girl from the matron. May. be it will and maybe it won’t. It h hard for youth to see with the eyes at age, and all the wisdom of all the ages won’t alter the fact that most of III learn 1}; hard experience the lessons others would have taught on. Rever- theless us old fellows will keep on handing down advice to theoend ot the chapter, just hoping that perhaps a little of it will stick and do some good. Now. my dwr, you are going to get married to William Jackson Rollins with all the frills that I can aflord to throw around the ceremony. That’s right. That‘s what I like. Then you are going away on a bridal “tower," as they used to say down where I was help you to find happiness. when you dicky birds. around you going and coming. “ho many young couples put their in!!!" In pawn In order to cut a wide mm on their wedding Journey. They can! back bankrupt In spirit and parse. worn out bodily by the rushing her-a raised. and utter you’ve ripped around the country a few weeks and squander- ed more money than William can make again in six ‘ months you will come back home to settle down and “live happy ever after." That, I am pret- ty sure, is as far into the future as you’ve got. and I guess it’s tar enough, but I wish you'd take a little time from laces and mfies and such entrancing fix- ings and give a little considera- tion, you and 075} t down the stream. William together, to that business of settling down. Did you ever notice, when I've taken you to see :1 horse race. how much trouble and time are taken to get the horses lined up for a right start? That's the most important part of the business. getting a right Don't let William feed pa min (I! to cut it out. It’s the fashion. and folks will say mean things If you 6011'! :10 what everybody else does. But ion’t overdo it; don‘t splurge too much; don't let William feed his money to the dlcky birds that will ham start. and it’s a good deal more im- portant for young folks just starting In married life. How to Be “Happy Ever After.” I want to see you get a right stnrt. little girl, one that will land you and Bill at the post safe winners, and you'd better not have any mistaken notions about that “happy ever after" wise and save you as much of life’s worries and tears as possible. He can’t tell you everything; he can’t know all that the future has in store for you. nor warn you against the unknown, but what the years have taught hlm he wants to give to you, and just remember that he does it not because he is just old and garrulous. but because he loves you better than anything else on earth except your mother and wants above all thing to see you happy. This Bridal Tour Business. I don't take much stock in this bridal tour business. I wouldn't advise you business. It's there. all right. You just bet it is. I‘ve had forty years of it, and I know I know; but it doesn’t come of itself, little girlâ€"doesn't come just as a matter of course. Hap- piness is a manufactured product and every couple have to make their own stock. I want you to get that stuck deep into your little noggin the very first thing. Happiness isn’t found; it’s made. And sometimes there's a whole lot of toil and a whole lot of trouble inthemaking. butasaruiethemore the toil and the more the trouble the better and sweeter the product That's another point that’s worth remember- ing. You’ve got to get rid of a lot of tool notions before you can get started right. It takes most people years to get rid of them, but I’d like to have you go lniao this business with your eyes wide open. with the full knowledge that you are not going to drift down the stream in an open boat with silken and per- fumed sails and nothing to do but watch the landscape. There’s some- thing to do, my dear. something for you as well as for William. Married life isn’t a simple speed trial on a straightaway course. It's a hurdle race with handicaps. and you stand a better chance in the running it you know what the weights are and some. thing about the hurdles. So if your oid daddy bothers you with informa- tion about the track don’t get out of patience. He only wants to put you are-1,0! com-u.” “Well, I'm blessed!" cried Shel-m Knowles. “I have forgotten his name.“ tothedlrectory. Youbowhhao Knowles “I've such a memory that I forgbt all about the stair; forgive me and invite me to another dinner.” It was then arranged that he should dine with the gentleman on the follow- ing Wednesday, and in order to seem against the engagement being again forgotten be there and then recorded it in his diary. On rejoining his friend he told him the story of his lance (1 memory. “Who is the gentlemxn?‘ and Ill knocked out by Worry and fatigue and indigestion that they were emitting at each other like a Couple of cats on the back yard fence. And the worst of It is that they never got over it, for the last time I heard of them they were fighting yet. No. little girl, don’t try to break any records on your bridal trip. Don’t try to see how many (1111a~ an kinds of posters you can get on your suit eases. Just pick out some nice, quiet spot, where you can stay for a few weeks at a cost that will come within the limits that your bu:- “For not keeping that dinner em ment you had with me last Thurflly. I had a number of people to meet you. nnd you never came or even sent III explanation or your absence." “An aux dramatist. Lmaghabk Forgetfulness. As Sheridan Knowles. the dramatist. was walking dawn the Strand one d” with a friend he stopped to greet a gentleman. who. however. received him very coldly. “Do you know,” said he to Knowlvs. “that you owe me an apology ‘3" ' band can afl'ord. and there pass the time together as sweetly and happily as you may, forgetting for the moment that there is anybody else on the face of this green earth or any other time This isn‘t all I started out to say. but I guess it’s about all you'll want to digest this trip. I can imagine um is walking up and down the next room with his hands in his pockets. wonder- ing why in the world it takes a woman so long to dress. That’s one of the things he’ll never find out, but when you go down you can tell him it way Just a love letter from your next but fellow that you were reading. That will relieve his mind about the toilet and at the same time give him some- thing else to worry about. Bill’s all right, but I can’t help but feel a m sore at him still for stealing m m girl‘s heart away from me. So I'll leave him and you to your devoflml until I go home again to play a little part in the great drama of your lives Goodby. little girl, until then. You! meetiounte father. but the present. That‘s the way to spend a honeymoon. That‘s vhat a honeymoon is torâ€"to get av .' (tom the world for a spell, not to get into the thick of it. Then you mavâ€"under- do now. The trouble with even the kind of wedding trip I have suggesmd is that too much sweetness is likely to pail. I remember once that you got mighty sick on chocolate drops and you wouldn’t look at chocolate drops for a year. Yet it was the flnwt kind of candy. 'ihere’s an old saying that you can’t get too much of a good thing. but it's wrong, very wrong. There’s nothing finer on earth than the society of husband and wife, but nei- ther at the beginning of married life nor afterward is it best to have too much of it. It’s got to be modified by the diversions of everyday occupation before it will keep well. So I say don’t string out your trip too long. even it you spend it in some seques- tered nook. And. short as you may make it, my dear. don’t put in all of it billing and coqing. It's a good time for a little A preliminary Bland me, I say may, not a ll-eome back at peace in mind and heart, know- ing one another better and loving one another better, ready to get down to the serious business of marrled life la the proper spirit. That kind of wedding trip is pretty near as good as none at all. When your mother and I were married he: base was saddled after the ceremony and together we rode through the green bordered lanes to the little home I had prepared for her. That was all there was to it. It's the best way, I think, and yet I can’t advise you to do the same. Times change and customs dunge with them. and what was M proper forty years ago won't v ‘r you get back Wautngfor hertodrcss home; to m n as partners wholly devoted to each oth- dr’s good; to start it with no fool no- tions in your heads about each other’a perfectlons; to start it with the firm de- termination to take each other as you are and to build on that foundation a castle not of air, but of love, of labor. of mutual joys and mutual troubla that shall last till death do part. apfiugy! \Vbat for?” asked the Preliminary Stock Taking. Dec. 19, 1907 JOHN SNEED. nttle figuring on joint assets, men- financial; a lit. tle pondering over plans. Don’t get too all fired material; don’t take yourselves castles for the moment and get yourselves In shape to start too seriouslyâ€" not just yet. w