Show SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT by F A WALKER 1 DAN CUPID IN DOUBT itic secret sorrow of a thousand VIo dern J modern homes Is that the r balne of the tower does docs not dot prone proe to be incapable I 1 capable of protecting the battlement I 1 and tills this failing you will find if you look into the matter without prejudice odice Is the root of a growing evil which Is spreading its branches like ilke a noxious tree in every part of the world As the boughs cast their shadows where the sun ought to shine there comes the alarming conviction that home life Is losing its old time charm that the newly married are turning to I 1 I 1 boarding houses and hotels afraid to accept such responsibilities as their fathers fath and mothers assumed with every efi evidence dence of ga gladness aaness tills trend of the new generation Is the meaning of the hue buo and cry against landlords extravagant rents I 1 pressure of hard times discontent and i the ceaseless grinding of the mills in the divorce courts uan dan cupid with his quiver of arrows standing at the crossroads hid jog in gardens of roses or waiting at splashing fountains where moonbeams moon beams silver the waters Is not the hie merry saucy and confident little imp that tie be was a generation ago his lips hove lost their smiling curl and his chubby hands are at a a bit un steady as he bends his bow and lets fly an arrow and oftener than not unless his arrow be tipped with gold and studded with gems lie misses his mark in the olden days the love that soared and sang at the twang of the bow also busied itself in building a nest of its own and the beautiful lady of the tower could make the airiest bread and broil a steals steak to a turn proud 0 of her accomplishments but those were the alie delectable days of the dalbys and the joans when the lidi lady stood unafraid on the battlement and helped her lord to win the tray fray love then was real and it lasted from the springtime of orange blossome to the sere and yellow leaves of autumn down to the snows and the last sigh of winter and all through their lives in the glorious sears scars sad and in the somber the married pairs held their troth and sang frono from the joy in their lie hearts arts hand in hand when our life was may hand in hand when our ur hair Is gray and here Is the sentiment that keeps heeps love delicate sweet and beautt ful through the alic eternal csia azus L i A man whose action sll stand any searchlight dont have to be s sf careful about his words no in matter ater how careful its bull built n bridge Is no use if its shorter than the stream dont think just because jonah did 14 it that youre gonna gonia get anywhere lookin down in the mouth copyright |