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Show The .Second Marriage. Indianapolis News. When reading the notice of tho marriage mar-riage of two old people, the temptation is strong to smile and make some Hip-pant Hip-pant remark. A youthful generation looks upon those of mature years as done forever with the sentiments of love and incapacitated by age for the appreciation apprec-iation of the enjoyments of marriage. They cannot understand that as the years inereaso the love of domestic life grows stronger, as infirmities come on apace tho yearning for one's own fireside fire-side is such as youth and health and ambition am-bition cau not experience. The young and active, with every resource of business busi-ness and pleasure at their command, can not know the loneliness that takes possession of those who see themselves pushed aside and feel that they are not necessary to the comfort and happiness of anyone on earth. The husband or wife, deprived of the companion of a lifetime, sees the children chil-dren going forth from the parental roof to homes of their own, and realizes that in a little while there will be only a forsaken for-saken hearthstone and all the chairs vacant save one. It is not surprising thtit the heart goes out in quest of a companionship that will remain steadfast, rather than to endure tho isolation of age. If people of mature ma-ture years make a sensilile marriage and arc governed in their selection by a due regard for the interest of their children, it is not a subject that calls for jest or censure. If thereby they find a grateful peace and a welcome comradeship comrade-ship in their declining years, this should be a matter of pleasure tc their relatives rela-tives and friends, who should feel no right to criticise or interfere. I |