The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1866-10-17
IDE EALISM vs. REALITY.
BY M***.

AOES AAASM VS. HE AAxVxs
BY M***.
The other day, in guilty idlcness, took
upa newspaper-what paper, the safety OF
its editor and my own fair name suggests
that tell not-and therein read long
argument in proof of the idealism of love
Why will people raise tombstones over
their own common sense?
Now, if say a foolish thing, there is
just chance that on being arraigned, eli.
ther art, grace, or skillful badinage may
cone to the rescue, and may somehow
find graceful mol. pros. But black, there
it Is, dead against you-like having ones
neighbor's purse found in ones own
pocket +!
Some W. esch-a masculine Outcast-(I
trust all that's mortal of him is in pene-
tertiary somewhere to-day D-says that
there is regular crystallizing recipe for
Love, and he puts in this wise, figurative-
ly: Given-sufhcient alum and water to
dissolve plentifully, and some little twigs.
We, dear girls, (drop curtsey I! are the
twigs, and the solution represents this
perfect persons fertile imagination. We
are immersed in this hallucinatiOn, turned
gently over and over-we crystalline, and
10! We are lovely thing to look upon =
Il like my looks, don't you? Make face
at him y But after we are thoroughly
decorated by this metaphysical lover,
thank goodness ! we are pretty astringent
by this time y we are to be placed upon
the mantel, over good crate fire, it ap-
pears, wherc-the grate fire being surpos-
ed to represent the test of everyday life,
little by little, (morc shame to him for put
ting us there 1--WE lose all those pretty
diamonds of grace and perfection, and be-
come-what? Twigs-depreciated twigs
The upshot of all this means, that every
man loves an ideal woman; and it only
shows to what point of infdelity man
may arrive before he is called for by
never mind! 1t would be unfeeling to tri.
ae with the pedigree of such man,
wouldn't it?
This diriaa homo pretended to say that
Petrarch's Laura was only an ideal wo.
man. Now, knew better SO l arose in
my wrath and collected histories, poems
essays, and an encyclopedia and find
that MIR. Petrarch fell in love with Mrs
Laura as she was piously coming out ol
church. A pretty record that! Just what
you might expect of an old bachelor, who
probably wasn't a member of the church
nor even led the singing.
Idleness or predestination, like every
other love atiair-there are never any 9th
er causes. Whatever this experimentor in
alum knows-and he probably is clerk il
a drug store, and knows more of pills thar
of passion-he knows less of love thar
somebody Iknow, who says it is both &C
cident and fatality, injury and cure, ant
just what it ought to he, or kind Provi
dence would never have it of infinite ca
pacity.
It is all very we'll, Mr.. Druggy, to laugl
ut love, for l suppose by ''love' you mea1
the mysterious drawing near" Of wei
behaved young man and an attractiv
young woman. But just wait till you g
into business for yourself! There ma,
come day when you shall be wrecked a
by a whirlwind-when you can't tell aqu'
fortis from aqua alum. You get confused
dizzy, and can't see! Don't rub your eye
at least, not with your, own hands. Tr,
Kitty's.
Yes, sir, if you want to laugh at lore
let it be while you are happy and fortu
nate-while you have every Thursday out
and payday comes regularly. But get in
to trOuble-bc unfortunate-suffera and b
wretched, and now try what there is in tn
efficient, steadfast, undaunted love Of wo
man!
Will any man give you this "unstraine'
quality Of love? Damon may die for Py
thias, but the woman that loves man vii
1s,,n Co... ko1,n n 81 I,,,o,.
courage to live than it does to die, NJ,
Druggy!
Viii any man know, by keen-eyed in
stinct, just what every sigh, every shadoN
of care, every gesture of mental wearines
means? viii any man anticipate you
little wants, and, supplying them give yo
silent sympathy when yon couldn't bear
word? Who conveys rest and courage i
her palm? Who reaches forth her han
in the darkness of your trouble, and set
your foot in safe place, because her cor
fdence in you implies your own sure-foo'
edness?
was about to fall back upon the Bible
but l believe won't, for it seems to m
there is scarcely theory there that ma
not be perverted into dangerous fallacy
When st. Paul generously declared ths
; if meat did not agree with the gentlema
on the third floor, back, he would eat POI
ridge all his days, he surely did not inten
to start the theory that if you love mist,
kenly and become disgusted, nobody els
must love, out of brotherly sympathy ft
you!
For my part, do not believe in unive
sal love. 1t is the mischievous extreme (
an affinity" Why, suppose if eve
loved my neighbor as myself, Mrs. .
Rourke would wear my new hat to II
Presidents reception to-day, and | migi
wear what was left of it tomorrow u
ME tell you this, however, know som
. thing as true and as homely as Nantucl
: ct woman. It's the little adage: "What
one mans meat is another mans poison.
Il Differs from lst Corinthians, Sth chap
18th verse;.
Do you recollect picture in your litt
geography, years ago, of Chinese pedle
with skating cap on his head, a nice lor
pig-tail just where it ought to be, al
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