Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-10-25
:. ! COMMUNICATED
LOVE. ON THE BRAIN.

,sItis disease, and can be diagnosed as sue
o.ssinllv as the measles or cholera morbus.
Unusually commences with a soitening Of the
heart, which gradually extends to the head,
where the symptoms first manifest themselves.
The effect upon the patients IS various. Some
are seized with mania for gazing on the moon
always eulogiziug the old beidam as pale
faced Luna Star gazing is another symptom,
which is regarded as good by cool judges. But
# the fever for writing or even reading poetry
sets in, the case is hopeless one, and can only
he cured By an application of matrimony.
Ordinarily the patient, while lahorng under
this disease, is unit for business. There is a
sort of a will-o-the wisp figure dancing before
his distorted vision, coming between hlm and
his daily labor, uniting him for a sober COM
imitation of units and tens, and making a Ba-
lam OF him generally. lie suffers a loss Of
appetite-to the intense qualification Of his
Iandlady. lie looks upon bacon and green's
with ultra contempt, and wants something
more ethereal He thinks about the honey
dew Of Hybla and wishes some Of the drug
stores in town had supply He studies By
ron and Moore, and quotes from each with re-
msrkabe facility, Lalla Rookh becomes a
lavorite, especially certain portion Of the
Fire Worshippers. 3 sc
This disease is confined to no particular age
or station We had an attack OF it when
about fifteen. 1t was SO severe that our moth
er wanted to give us paregorlc. We told her
the pain wasn't that low down. WerccOvered
in course otstime.@ Once it broke uttully in
the shape ofa certain question to certain lady.
She answered in a monosy liable Of two letters.
1t brought US to our senses 1t swept the
mist from our eyes like tog before a hurn-
cane We, looked for the cloud, and saw a.
large white bird sailing on pond. Thought
we were very much the same kind OF bird,
With our wings clipped. A few days after, we
told our chum that we didn't see anything IN
that Haunting Dorothy Diddle to admire. Aud
we didn't. ..E.s.
The disease develops itself most singularly in
those who are advanced in years. Any one who
has seen an old man in love has seen natures
harlequin. The old drama gets up nothing
more ludicrous, on more inconsistent. Every
one feels like laughing at the poor old fellow 5
infrmity.
We once saw an old man who was suffering
from an attack of it. He was we'll enough ad
vanced in life to have dozen grand children.
We knew him we'll He was the playmate of
our ilIustrious grandsire, who wasn't quarter
master in the revolutionary war IT he had
been we would have been better off than we are
now. We had noticed for some time a singular
ity in his conduct. We saw him several times
with roses stuck in his button-hole. We cought
him once reading Burns Highland Mary. We
were out with him once looking at his stock,
and we asked which was his favorite he ifer
He said Widow Wilkins. The cat was out,
We knew what was the matter; but when, sev-
eral months AFTER we saw him washing the
dishes while the widow-that was-nursed the
baby, we thought he was cured permanently.
There is no preventive for this disease.
Like the whooping cough. and the mumps, 1t
comes to all mankind. But it seldom kills.
We have heard OF persons dying Of it, but as
We have never seenaa case of that kind, We are
not willing to record it as fact. All the cases
that ever came under our own observation,
including our own promiscuous cases, recovered
in one way OF. another, Most of the cures have
been the result Of "a wife and a few children.
Most any preacher will help a person to the
former, while the latter come-in time. The
more of them, the sounder the. cure. r..f 4