The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-08-30
SUSCEPTIBLE GIRLS.
The Difference BetUeen n Romantic
nmd amscepiIbIe Mommn.

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There is an essential difference be-
tween romantic and a susceptible
woman. y susceptible woman Is one
who possesses what are called the finer
feelings OF our nature in the highest
state of irritation. She generally has
brains, which the romantic woman has
not. She Cultivates her special tHsIe
with the utmost assiduity. She never
allows il to rust for want of employ
ment, or TO sicken from want or care.
She preserves the vitality OF her emo
lions by constantly exercising them.
Nor is the susceptible IHdy particular
in her choice OF objects. Although she
Will as II girl Ok oua uIan IN preference
to cat or parrot, still, sooner than
want subject, she will even love one
of her own sex. With her, love means
a simple fetish worship OF the present
idol. Although she changes them con-
stantly, for the time they have no cause
to complain of her devotion. She ex-
acts nothing more than that they
should permit her to gush over
them, TO lay flowers at their feet, TO
praise them and to be Kind to them
with sufficient ini iensity to satisfy her
craving while the fit lasts. The gods
may be sticks or stones, but the wor-
SHIP per endOws them with IA thousand
agreeable qualities and powers, which
are simply the emauatiOD of II suscePti-
Bile enth usiasm on her own side. The
King of France who carried holy dolls
in his hat, and vowed wax candles 10
them all round when he felt either dys-
peptic or religious, had not a more pro-
found belief in his private saints than
the susceptible girl has in her occA-
sional pets. Aud yet she never cares,
like the king, 10 put her faith to a test.
She is not only ready but willing to aC-
Cept the beaIlficuIion and potency of
her favorites upon trust. Sc wants
nothing from them save that they re-
main passive under her violently sym
pathetic regards. This is what makes
the susceptible woman bad lover.
She prefers to love rather than to
be loved. The work must be all
on her side. She will have no part
ner in her Impulses. Her pleasure
kind that where two are brought nc
lively into it, she ceases to enjoy 1t
with that fanatic Zest which she felt
when the luxury was uushared and
swallowed in secret. Nor does this
come from seitishness. Susceptible
girls are generous. They are generous
even beyond the generosity which arises
from their abnormal softness. Giving
with them is Il pure satisfaction. They
are constantly Y Imagining the effects of
their bounty upon the. ecipient, and in
the enjoyment received they feel they
are more than justified in the outlay.
Love is difficult and almost inacces-
sIbIe sentiment to them. They will
nave favorites rather than lovers The
growth OF passion is sconstantiy checked
and crossed by other caprices of sus-
ceptIoility. Besides, the susceptible
girl has generally rather n refined ma
ture. She lives in tancies and prefers
to dream and go into reveries over tfty
splendid creatures, with violet eyes,
dropping mustaches, and heavy dra-
COON proportions, to believing in the
homage OF an ordinary or an ugly per-
sonage, who can scarcely be idealized
sufficiently in the crucible of her imag-
iuation. She suffers of course from
emotion waste. Her affairs OF the heart
are duplicated. she is as miserable
at the GOODNESS of her darling Blanche
or Emily as she would be al the sud
den GOODNESS of man who had been
sanguine enough to think ne could
enter tue, lists against every RttrHC-
live male and female VINO might come
in the path OF the susceptible lady.
The sphere of her affections compre-
hepd "A sort OF Happy Family cage,