Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1858-05-22
The Comic Aspects of Love.
N LECTURE BY MADAME lola MONT

Hall, when she delivered q lecture on the
comic aspects of the tcnderpassion Among
her hearers were number of ladies. =
The lady lecturer began her discourse
by saying that perhaps she ought to apollo
Sizc to the .fcmale part of her audience for
attempting to lidicule the passion which
was so serious matter to them, but that
she intended only to speak of comic love
for nearly everybody had experienced the
sentimental part of it, and therefore needed
no mformationof its many phases. Comic
love was not an offspring of tie heart, and,
although it had been dressed up in the
brightest colors, yet there was nothing sen
SSibIc in it and nothing praiseworthy 1t
began with the first sigh, and cudcd with
the first kiss, and Plato was not far from
the right path when he called it great
devil [Laughtcr.]
Those possessed oft, the lecturer thought
would find it a devil hard to cast out TAp.
plausc. Such an attachment by man to
one of the othcrscx would make him fool
and render him capable of worshipping,
and at the same time believe it right and
proper, the shadow of his charners shoe
ties laughter The story of Aristotle
falling in lovcwith the mistress of AlcNan-
der the Great, so deeply that he carried
her on his back to the King, and became
conscious of his folly only when he saw the
people laughing at him and deriding him,
who pretended to be wise man, for such
objectionable conduct, was told. There
after the word of Aristotle on all matters
of the heart fell dead upon the ears of AL,
eXander and with great aud good reasons,
too, for he, the great philosopher, had
shown human weakness as well as bis all-
gust pupil.
With the wealthy and educated of Eu-
rope this comic love was INDUCED in to
very great extent, while with the great
manufacturing Ur. poorer classes it was quite
uncommon; love being, among the peas.
ants and manufacturing swarms of great
cites, moro mere natural instinct than
sentiment. With them it was love of the
hcart-that poor outpouring of heaflection
which sanctiiics every feeling of humanity
1t was related of a Secretary of the great
Charlemagnc, that falling in love with the
Anperops daughter which was reciprocal
ted, be madea visit one night. When the
day 'dawned, and he was about leaving, to
his horror he found snow had fallen quite
deeply. Alas what should he do? If
he left, the prints of mans foot would
have been seen by the Emperor, and thus
the secret of the lovers meeting be discoy-
cred and should he remain, detection would
be equally certain. But woman's wit came
to his aid in this extremity, for the bcuuti-
tul Emma, an heir to the throne, carried
him on her shoulders beyond the enclosure
But, as usual in all cases, the course of
true love in this did not run smooth. Char
emagnc saw the whole transaction from
his window, but instead of punishing the
offending Secretary, elevated him to posi-
ton that, with love, entitled him to the
hand of the worthy girl.
In America, thank God, social distincr
tons were nearly .oblitcratcd yet there
should be Il fitness of things, and while the
lecturer was very liberal, yet she dcpreca-
ted the intcrmanying of poor coachmcn
with heircsses, unless the latter brought
large amounts ofmoney whercwith to ena-
able their lords to uphold the dignity of
the new positions which they occupied
Love that led to such marriages as these
was comic love. True, it might be pure
and ardcnti in the beginning, but when that
briefsleigh ride, the honey moon, had rolled
by, the unfortunate woman would discover
that her new phase in life is not SO pleas
ant as thectays of courtship led her to be-
licve it might be-. Then the hearts united
for q life time would probably find that, of
the first fire of love that burned within
them, but fow cindeS remained. This was
the case withthousap,ls, and nothing could
be more deeply regretted.
The speaker had often wondered That
sonic Ingenious Yankee had not blessed the
#orld By invcntins some plan to salt down
love, just as pork is sultef down Laugh
,teraod 'applmse.l J. 'Thou, and not until
then, could peace be. expected hr,affairs Of
a domestic nature. Nothing was more rep
rehensiblc than ipfidclity on, the part oE
either manor wife There were many cSf
ses which led to the prevalence of tliSTil,' /
and these the lecturer eloquehtly
To those who could not live hapWT ~ ,oseu'-
er sNe would give this advip iEua az as
ottenas possiblogvlong enXf;; % fIa'T ioaSs ~
give freshness to tho new t ,a,tEs lii%'.st' I
ter. Then on the reSSh ael'a e,,eie nii9h' DO
enough of the fys<Gca''o @ eo,"o 70 rGnuor
home pleasant w wax % reIatsd au nf tho
maaI,1, IN 1Fch the Emperor Maximilian
doh;Jaa Ittweon two contestants for his
Js,,shss U.Js hand, He procured q large
saoi5s5Snd declared that tho one VINO sue
eIed in sacking his opponent should be
6clared The winner.
SO the German Baron, and tho SPANISH
Cavalier who sought the lady's hand, aetu
lily contendcd for an hour in fl,es ,lr,,sso,,do