Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1868-02-01

| SOME PHASES OF L0AE.-It is easy e,
IOugh to classify Slove, but it is not so
easy to define it-for one definition cannot
do justice to that which is CT so many
vafieties. .-- 81 49, -,
Thus, to say TINT 'siove" is the influence.
eXerted over the person by the attraction
of another is to leave mutual attachment
unprovided for. If. we say it is the
result of equal attractions exerted by
two persons on each other, we conflict
with law which says that two equal
forces can make no impression on each
other. ~ F elil'-s 7'.3a /. -
Here is query, then, for everybody 81
who has done with affection. To make
perfect love, must not one of the parties
love more ardently than the ather2iI-I-ES
Have you not noticed that young men
who are full of ambitious projects always
love women of their own age? The. ,
want of reliable and appreeiatiye con-
fidante for these young Hercules, forces,
them 20 take invariably to some woman
who was weighing matrimonial offers
while they were at the age of serpent
strangling. ... ..-- =. ..--,...
The young man who puts his affections
in the keeping of a very young girl has
to withhold from her his sublimer, con-
tid noes because she has no place to keep
them. As part of this rule it seems
that intellectual men always love *o-
men who are some years older than
themselves aud intellectual women love
mentwice their own age. .eia 60 1s
Great men spend their first year in .
''adorin9" women whom they are dis
posed t6 call atnt-when they get to-
maturity and grow idle with success
The wives for wise men are certainly r.
those women who have exhausted their e
girlish caprices on score of fools. 4 It.
does not seem, though, that these Young
men and womeli, who are born beautiful .,
and winning, who begins to love at ff-i-
teen, who have hundreds of flirtations, a
dozen engagements, and some real af-
fections iu spite of themselves, carry to,
their futu: e husbands merely the shreds nj
aud tatters of a heart. i- i...--.. s..--t s-.-
How many spouses have pressed to
their bosoms these veteran organs, ell
shrined in the freshest forms, and giving
no outward sign of their many desperate
campaigns. -.
One of the most melancholy things in
nature is the fact that no one loves the
person twice 1t is absolutely impossi-
bic to light q fire anew on the hearth
where the ashes of some former flames
are resting. Y on may rekindle a slnm-
boring or dying spark, but ifit be dead
altogether your utmost efforts are vain.
Those persons who meet again after sep
aration who parted=-married-s
were widowed and then met and inter-
marry, had not extinguished the embers,
but covered them. T s-- --.l .. e-s o. 9
. As rule no man marries his first love.
1t is hard to give any reason for this, ex-
cept thatit seems always to have been
4 fact iu 7t-5si -.f j.. ... q a--.,
Nothing becomes so terrific after a
while as those first loves The end
cf young peoples intatuation is night
mare Some loves are to be compared
to the possession of the famous bottle.
imp, which was first ardently desired,
which showqred benefits on the possess
| or for time, and which WAS gladly sold
at least for half its cost. ...- -...,--,.-. -.,.