The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1869-12-10
DEER LODGE CITY, lFRIDAY. DEC. 10
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From the London SATURDAY. ncviev.

From the London Saturday Review
1t Il one Of tic oldest points IT differenc
between man and womsn that woman ha'
no First .ovc, The long alphabet Of he
tAfectiQns I'D 'wlilsoat any tksimet isnd 4,
beginning: she mounts by insensible grals
'sons from dolls and kittens and pct brotl,
ers to the Zenith of passion, to descend l.,
The ssn'c insensiblc gra,'ations from the 70
NTH of passion through pet i,rotl,crs to tab
Wy cats. There is no such event Is frs
kiss forms in lDy's life 10 mark for W.,
7 nap thy Transition from girl,ood " the aud
den maturity Of passion; she has been kiss
ing and purring and fontlHng and pct,ing
from her cradle, and she will pct and fol.
die and purr md kiss ~ hcr grave Love
IN tive technical sense Of the word, ia with
= her little more than an intensifying If hcI
~ ordinary life. There u no'ncw picture, bu;
the colors are for u while . little hcigI,tcn.
"a and the tone raised Presently the viz.
{ illness Of color will fadc ngnin. and the
cool grsys. lower the tone, aptl tlscIMssiOn
" life will have died away. But there will
be no definite moment At which one could
fairly say that love came or went. A girl
. who IL not whispering IN q lovers ear will
always say frankly enough that she never
knew what it was not to he in love. There
is one Obvious deduction which she hrgcts
to draw. that there never can be . time
when she can know what it is to he in love.
Here and there, of course, u woman can be
colder. or later in development, Or more
sclf.conscicus, and may divide by more rig.
idly. market lines the: phases Of her life.
But even thea. il she be . woman at all, slic
can have no first love. Feeling, with wo-
man.. has no past. ~ it, has no future.
Every phase of her life begins with an act
Of oblivion. Every love j. . first love- II
never loved any one before" is said, and sid
truly, to dozen loving ears. in succession.
r" The first thing should like 10 meet
with in Paradise said Lady Wortley Mon
taguc. "wOuld be the river Lcthc, the
stream of Foryctfulncss." But woman
finds = little rivukt ofJtthe at every stage
Of her hearts career. II she remembers the
past NJ all, it is to Offer it. up as y burnt sac
rifice to the deity of the present. When
Cleopatra talked about Cesar to Mark An.
tony. she passed, no doubt. her fingers
through, her lovers hair, and wondered how
she could ever have dotted on such bald.
pated fellow ~ the Dictator. Had she sue.
cecdcd In charming Octuvius, she would
have wondered equally Ut her infatuation
for such nc'er.do well as Antony. And
SO it is no wonder that a woinan's first love,
even il she realizes it q. all, goes down in
this general wreck of the past But in
.mnns life II Is ~ revolution. tits IN fact
the one thing that makes him man. The
world Of boyhood is strictly world Of boys
Sisters, cousins. aunts, mothers, are mixed
up in the general crowd Of bars,srinns that
stand without the play ground. There arc
few warmer or more poetic affections than
tho chiva|nus fricntlsl,ip)ofT sciWolfcllows;
there is no trucr or more genuine worship
than boys worship of tho hero of the
sctnmagc or tile cricket field It Is !. Gnc
world in itself. hut ii is a wonderfully mar.
row and restricted world. Not 4 girl may
peep over the palings. Girls can't jump, or
fay out, or swarm up tree; they have
nothing to talk about as buys talk; they
never heard Of that glorious sw,pe Of Old
Browns. they arr awful milkJsop they
cry and "tcll mamma" they are afraid Of Il
vovcrncss. and Of COW. 1t is impossible
to conceive a creature more utterly con-.
lte,ultilLs in boys eyes THAN 3 girl Ut his
own Mgc usually is Then in some fatal
moment comes The revolution. = 4hc barrier
of contempt goes down with 4 ctssh. The
hoy world disappears Brown, that god Of
llsc playground. Is cast IN tho owls and to
the bats. There is sudden GOODNESS in the
Friendship, that was to last from school 70
the grave. Papcr.cl.ascs- and the annual
match with the '.oA fellows cease 70 be
the highest objects Of human interest
There 10 lcss excitement than there was last
year when : grea. cheer Welcomes Tie news
that Mugby has got tho Ireland. The boys
life lips become Imuldlcd and. confused.
The old existence is steering of, and the
new comes shyly, 6if0l'y. Il j. osly by .
sort Of cumpulsion that he Will own that he
j. making MI this :. fuss" about : girl For
the moment he rebels against the spell Of
that one little face. the witcllcry Of that one
little hand. He fingers on tho border Of
this new counsry'fsoM whence ~thcrc isno
return to the old p)ay.helds. He Is shy,
strange to this world 81 woman. and wo.
msp,s talk aud ,womsn's wsyA The saress,
steadicst foot on the cricket ground tumblcs
over TIE lfoot.stools, and bangles itself In
oolored wcols. The sturiicst arm, that ever
sNichled lat trcmb!cs II The sSuch u tiny
finger. The voice that frang out like Z
trumpet anong tho tumult of football,
huslics and trcmiies and faitsFs ID saying
4 half dozen commonplace woris The old
sense of mastery il gone. ,Hs, knows that
every chit In the nursery has found out hia
secret, and Il hSShiac s1G IL HI bushes,
and boys blush b hot, painful thing,
when tlSs,ssesly hesds bsnd together and
t4heaa Them whispering whss fool = Y
fee. &c b 1 fool-that b oao thing be feeh
quite certain abost. 46esS u my Une on
OF thing he feels even moro certain about
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