Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1858-07-07

AiE <A0ioOfsAT OF TIE BREARFAST TABLE ON
LoYE.-The Autocrnt of tthe Breakfast table in
the July number q the Atlantic Monthly, thus
discourSes about attiniGes:
The divinity student having inquired one
morning of the ".AutocTat of the Breakfast Ia
BILE" what he thought of affinities-did he be-
lleve in love Mt first sight-replicd:-"Si all
men love all women. That is the primo. titcie
aspect of the case. The Court of Nature rs
>umes the law TO be, that all men do SO and
the lndividual man is bound to show cause wliy
he does not love any particular woman 4
man, says one of my old black-Eelter law hooks
may show divers good reasons, as thus: He
hath not seen the person named III the indict
heht; she is OF tender age, or the reverse of
that; she hath certain personal iisqualifications
AS, Tor instance, she Is blackmOor or hath
an Ill'tavored conntenance; or his capacity of
loving beiug limited, his affections are cngroSsed
ny previous comet; and 50 of other conditions
Not the less is 1t true that he is bound bv duty
ana inclined hy nature to love each and every
woman. Therefore it is that each woman
virtually summons every man to Show cause
Why hc doth not love her This is not by writ.
ten document, or direct speech, for the most
part, but hY certain signs Of silk, gold and
other materials, which say To all ineii,-Look
nn me and love, as in duty bound Then the
man pleadcth his Special incapatity, whatsoever
ihnt may he,-aS, for instance, irnpecunioSity,
" e''t hS Hdt OIle OF many wives IN MS house,
hold, or that he is Of mean figure, or small ca
pacity; of which reason it may bc noted that
The first Is, according to the late decisions Of
,.hieicSt autlOiity.-So far The old law-hook-
But there Is n note from an older authority,
>aytng uhat every woman doth also love each
aud every man, except there be some good
rcasoil TO the contrary; aud very observing
I lend OF mine, Young unmarried clergyman,
tells me, that, so lar as his experience goes, he
has reason 10 think that the ancient author had
Tact to justify his statement.
III tell you how it is with the pictures of
women we fall in love with at first sight.
We ant talking about pictures-said
the landlady's daughter-We're tniking about
women.
Il understood that we were speaking Of love
at sight-I remarked mildly Now, as all a
man knows about woman whom he looks at is
lust That Iirtme as Zig as a copper, or nick
el, rather, at the bottom of his eye can teach
nim, think am right in saying we are talking
reason why man is not desperately in love
With ten Thousand women at once is lust that
which prevents all our portraits being seen on
that wall. They all ARE painted there by reflec-
ton from our faces. but because alL of them are
not painted on :he same spot, aud each un the
same surface, and many other .iects Mt the
same time, no one is seen as picture. But
darken chamber and let a single pencil ray in
through key.hulO, then you have picture on
the wall. We never fall in love with n5wOman
IN uisttnrttuu y re can get an
image OF her thFOughsa pin-hOlp : kt6lH then Re5
"an see nothing else, and nobody hnt ourselves
can see the image i'll mental camcia obscu-
IA"