The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1868-06-16
Living and Loving.
Bl A GAYkUSS.

Love is Il good thing II is inherent
IN the nature OF man, and TO n great ex-
tent in women. Sometimes it is eleva-
ting and purifying, and sometimes it isn't
When man loves a girl, the probabili.
ties are tha. he will feel better for cher
ishing ihe,wee> passion But ii has Il Gu
rous effect on some human beings Vic
tuals are neglected oitentimes, to the re-
lief OF the father OF the young mans fam
lily. lie goes round and sighs in secret,
and anywhere else he get the first chance
He talks wildly on other subjects but the
girl, and he finds it absolutely necessary
to wonder around TO her house four or
five times a day, and get the hired girl
down on him for ringing the door bell 50
often
Almost every man knows by instinct
when he is IN love, and if he don't he can
tell il by the way his heart begins TO butt
against his bosom, and the cold chills to
run down his back when his idol casually
comes around. never knew but one
fellow who couldn't tell whether he was
in love or not, and he was an innocent
young Ass, who came to me and said he
felt like getting married, but he actually
didn't know whether he was soft On the
girl or not, and he wanted TO know what
physical effect il would have on hiu if he
was. He had the dyspepsia and the in,
hamatory rheumatism, and he conceived
a vague idea that something of that kind
broke out on Il man somehow or other
like the rash, when he had it right
There are various kinds of love, but
the best Of EN- is love for the other sex.
1t 'lon't make any matter whether you
love IN ugly or pretty woman, tall Or
Il short woman, so you love one. Some
men have their preferences, and the poet
says it is better "to have loved and lost,
than never TO have loved tall woman ;
but that's n mere matter OF taste
There was man down on the Huer-
tano who fell in love with fat woman.
lie was a small man, and when he pro-
posed TO her, she asked him if he loved
her with his whole heart, and he said he
did, but owned up honest that his heart
was so small that il wouldn't go entirely
around at once with such an enormou.
big woman, so he agreed to love her little
by little at a time, turn about.
The love'ol money is the root Of al
evil, but it is a root from which som,
healthiul extracts are made. know mel
who love money so much that they mus
absolutely have it, and they are compel
ed to go for it in other peoples eXchc
q1ers. There was old Dick Vfooten'
Nephew his was one Of the most devo
ted and self sacrificing affections | eve
saw. lie used to go to see rich widow
down to Trinidad, and after making care
observations, he found that her none
) was making her too worldly and proud
and so he grieved over it with inconsola
) ble anguish for six months, and then de
termined to remove the cause of her mii
cry, so he embezzled all her heart an
; valuables the night before they were &C
e ing to be married, and fled TO foreig
o land. But the widow got up and rave
d about it, for she was 50 blinded in her 81
o that she couldn't see that it was all ft
9 her good
r Love of country is noble phase of a
9 lection nowhere do remember seeir
C illustrated what ardent and overpowerir
J. love for his country will do for a ma
e more than in the case of young Skime
n horn vino was so patriotic that when
'e was drafted to go into the army and d
n for his country upon her altars, bought
N substitute because he thought his attac
ment for his native land was so powerf
4. that he couldn't bear to leave her.