isa-normaladvance-1909-00139

Description:	THE NORMAL ADVANCE1391 He had promised to change his course on hisI return and to embrace her in the joy of their reunion jf Alas for the little star. She had failed to\|be guided by the Star and little she imaginedtwhat was to be the result of her improper lovelandunholy union with Gods wayward child.8-One day she saw a pigmy starlet rushing toJReet her. As the pigmy alighted there was,Hpor a, moment, a hot stinging sensation.What are you doing here? angrily de-PBianded the little star.Oh, was the response, I lost my balancejfand plunged into your section of the playground, falling on you quite accidentally.And, who are you?*I am Meteor. My cousin, Comet, oncellpassed our playgrounds.Meteor then became quiet and cold, and couldjjfspeak no more. So the little star forgotMeteor and began to prepare for the comingof Comet. Weeping tears of joy she put onher most beautiful dress of green, decoratedwith a thousand transcendent colors. Sadlythe Star looked at all these preparations, butit was too late to interfere.Quickly passed the intervening ages andagain Comet journeyed into the domains of theStar. With a convulsive sob the little star welcomed him. They rushed together and soon thelittle star felt herself growing hot and suffocated. Comet perceived that in his desire hewas again thwarted. The little star was a lifeless, inert body within his embrace, consumedby the fire of his wooing. Stunned andshocked he reeled into space. As the Starwatched the lifeless descent of the unfortunatelovers its heart was full of compassion forthem, and it wept.Courtship of YesterdayKATE V. BLACK, 11The old-fashioned kind of courting is sadlyH&ieeded in this age of the world, more perhaps{than it ever was before. The hurry craze seems»to have permeated mans whole life, to haveIcomplete control of him. Man has become aSSlave to the habit of whirling through life asIf he were racing on roller skates. This crazefinfluences him even when he is seeking a wife.IPoor feljow ! He has not a minute to lose theBrain is coming in a few moments, so thewireacher is- asked to be as quick as possible.\|The result is the same old story, that thingsBone in a hurry are never done right.c The good old time when John would wadeKhrough thick and thin in every kind of weather\|Ro see his Mary was a time when things were done slowly but surely. Then, hearts were sofirmly welded together that the jerks and pullsma the world could not even crack the bands■Iwhich joined them. The little smithy tookplenty of time to weld the bands securely andguaranteed every weld to hold. But this poorlittle fellow has also been seriously affected bythis malady of the twentieth century. In thosedays, the courtship did not begin in the morning and close in the evening like those of today.Week after week, month after month, andsometimes year after year, did the faithfulJohn go wooing his Mary, never missing unlesssickness or some terrible calamity held himaway with a grip like iron.During a long courtship a man has a chanceto learn something about the woman whom heis to make his wife. This is not always an easything to do. Some one has said that all womenare riddles and that the man who can solve onehas accomplished all. From this we see thatas a hard problem calls for time and study, italso takes time and study to solve one of theseliving problems. But the man is not the onlyone benefited by the long courtship. The womanhas only one way of becoming acquainted with
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