Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1860-03-20
Disappointed Affection.
BY 4 DY

Gu: exchanges, lately, come 10 US filed
with accounts OF the deplorable suicide OF
Young ladle. ia the distress occasloned 10y
disappointed affection. One residing near
Peoria county, lately hung herself from
tn. caase; another IN Indiana fell III love
nth, young man who was IN love
with, aud engaged to another girl, and
upon his marriage. displayed her ungoV-
.rnable passion by repeated attempts al
drowning, and than stabbng herself
We think LIE gentleman was exceeding
r. fortunate in escaping such wife a.
sne would have made. We have no desire
10 uads:rase the pangs of disappointed af-
lection. We have known girls 10 be ~
love Al ten years old. again at sixteen, and
once more after that. A lady, now
sensible wife, and mother, has told US Of
one moonlight evening, when she sat
down, aAd cody weighed the chances IN
favor Df drowning, landanum, or PruSslc
ucld. With tears she wrote last letters
10 her friends, and made out a list Of
inetleuio> 10 leave behind. Ii was very
warm. and become very late before she
had flushed her task and unromantic a
IL sounds she actually became drowsy,
and tci. fast asleep. Next day, company
WAS expected and she TO go 10 work sweep
ing anI making pies, and cake Some
how, during the process her suicide, ami
never seriously troubled her afte rwardS-
tn sad fact of an unrequiued, or I'M
worthy affection, which has proved The
grave u all the hopes of many gentle
,.sar., requires no evidence 10 subStanlI
ale II. Claims TO our sympathy. Bar we
protest against the foolish notion with
which young gIIs' heads are filled, that
ysO.na..s life is necessarily love, and
tAat sac cannot help getting up 'senli-
in-u:. . a grande passion for every
Jrai'iess noo ie that comes along.
TINS anxiety abou, beaux, & eternal
Nonsense. which so many your ladies
tacluauug, about being in love- is neither
,cllc..le. nor womanly ; il is simply the
result 81 iIeaess,a and the forcing process
- ;. u our modern system Of education
sun cl~ young girls. There Is nothing
palc.. IS rational or sensible IN their inter
raytsSe- with young men-it is always tilr-
l-llon. and unlimited license, and decen-
'.on. We have hearty contempt for
affected purdlshuess. aud should feel
htore g-tIyed than shocked 10 see n Young
girl cAtrIshIBg hopeless sentiment for
au ldivIduaI who could not return tt
NJ mink however, that the natural IN
&ti;fSt Of modest woman would be TO
,usiceai il, and that she would make more
hy her reserve than by the wildeS, demon
strauoAs Of her unhappy passion. Men
do hot care for love which comes to
chem dasoIicted-ihey have not the sem
iilneut o. gratitude 50 strongly marked
IMAM and though they may think Of
one Who loves them unas led, with a feel
ing IT Kindness, il wiil be strongly tine
tured with contempt, not the sort of hon
or a.ll respect which they voul! choose
Ia heslow upon wife. We wish it was
lns>ibir 10 impress upon the minds o.
gus who arr 50 anxious 10 get husbands,
iaa. their tiIprts, in that direction, grnrr-
ally serer aa.Y 70 destroy their chances.
/ yaI.5 ~ "a want 70 mary them, they
VI. cra..!, ti..d way to let them know
i, ami il g,,i.epy Of maideuly purity, and
4.-sr.a vii Iaslire sentiments more ten
der atd profound than could ever be eX-
cI,.i by the advances OF eager, ali as
suseI Young ladies', who can p arhapa
tad>t Of Crater personal ailr.clous.-
tatstauf- useful occupation IS a great
preventative. as well As cure. for the
JaugS Of disappointed affection, and when
w. hear of a young girl committing sui
,lie from his cause, we conclude tia. she
"as either habiiEaIly idle, or the victim
81 diseased lmagiuliun, and unconIrol
I'D passion.