The penny press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1859-1860, 1859-12-06
A Brief Encyclopedia for Lovers.

Love AT FIRST SIGHT.--All the poets
who have written on love, have admitted
fact which is apt to be disputed by pro-
sale natures mean the possibility of
Instantly falling in love at the first sight
of charming woman. If the poets are
good authority, man may fall in love
as suddenly as he may lose his balance
and fall from precipice, or from the stee-
pie of Westinghouse.
CHARMS word was once of great
power in the language of love, and signi-
fed innumerable devices which lovers
invented to win the opposite sex and keep
them true As an example of the kind
of charms resorted to in ancient times, L
may mention that lovers were in the
habit of making little image ofwax, and
holding it near the fire, and when it began
to melt, it was imagined to have the
power of modifying the hard heart of an
estranged lover. This trick is alluded to
by the Greek poet in the following lines =
""Asthis devoted wax melts Ger the fire,
Let Myndian Delphis melt with soft desire."
Rustic lovers of the present day are in
the habit Of performing similar charms
with appleseeds on hot shovel lie the
seeds, as they become heated, are at
tracted to each other, it is sign of
successful love; but if they fly apart, it is
the reverse.
MoDEsTY. Y.--Modesty in woman is the
charm of charms-it is like the mantle of
green to nature, without which she is q
desert, or morass 1t is modesty which
supplies the very nerves and soul to
beauty. "a fair woman without virtue"
saith tho Bible, lis like palled wine" 1t
is womans point of honor, which che
can never allow to be insulted with i'm.
punity Her honor, like the snow, is
melted with the slightest touch. 1t is like
rose-water in q beautiful glass. break
but the glass, and how doth the fragrant
essence embrace the dust, and lose for
ever its charming sweetnessl
No.-For little word, this is tre-
mendous one in love- When it is really
q negative, it is funeral bell rung with
one ruthless blow over the departure of
the last hope in lovers breast. But no
often means yes in love; A refusal may
30 be spoken as to amount to promise.
A chastisement may be 80 administered
as to be really carcss.
PorPING THE QUESTION. is ter
rible business to timid lover--a thing
which he breads moro than tooth-pulling
A long time after he knows that his fair
one has made up her mind to have him,
and after she has shown him that her
soul, if not "in arms" is eager for tho
wedding, still he approaches the final
business of formally popping the question,
covered with bushes and trembling with
fear ...... ........
TAKING THE HINr.-Giving and taking
the hint is sharp practi ce in love, which
often puts to the stretch the utmost inge'
nuity ofrustic swain and maidens There
arc a thousand indescribable little ways
in which love can delicately show itself
without the lormality Of words and de ella,
rations. The eyes, and every expression
of tho face, can give the hint, while the
young people sit dcmurcly in church,
listening to another prompter than the
parson and on the way home, the pluck
ing of simple violet by the roadside,
and giving it to q particular lad or lass,
is very loud hint that somebody thinks
a good deal Of somebody
YEs.-Yes is the lovers password to
the kingdom of Heaven, into which it per-
mits him to enter and find the angel his
heart has sought for.