The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1871-01-24
HEART AFFlNTlEs.
Professor o. S. Fowler on Love,
Courtship, Selection and Mar
riage.

The true basis of love and selection
is similarity. Nature must keep ner
genera and species apart. If the lion
and the lamb were To amalgamate,
their species would be spoiled. You
never knew much happiness to exist
between white man aud az Indian
squaw, because their tastes are SO diff
ferent. The savage man should mar
ry the savage woman, the Turk should
marry q Turk, the Christian Chris
tian, etc. Not only SO, but the same
kind of Christian, the Baptist a Bap-
tist, the Camphellite Campbellite,
and the Knbw-Nothing Know Moth
ing. Laughter.
Iappeal to you to know if,when you
love, you do not love some ore in
sympathy with you? There are of
course some exceptions. You some
times see long, lean, lank Mr.. Stork
married to a thick, heavy, plump Miss
Partridge. Then you find the heavy,
coursegrained elephant married to the
fine, nervous and susceptible angel.
| This is well, because her over-vitality
is exhausted by his powerful animal
nature, and their offspring is better
than they, This point well worth
your consideration, for no sin is so
great as that of cursiug your children
with poor bodies by an ill-advised mar
riage. Wherein you are medium in
any respect you may marry medium,
but wherein you are extreme in any
temperament or predisposition, marry
your opposite. If your hair is bright
red, marry black-haired woman. If
it is medium, you may marry shade
darker, but if your hair curls, don't
marry a lady who has curls, unless
they can be easily taken off. Laugh
teri l think l have made this so PLAN
who is, and who is not adapted to you,
and this is the most important problem
of your life.
Men a,e always the poorest judges
of themselves. The conceited man is
the last to find out his conceit, and
the humble man the last to realize his
humility.
"oh, wad some power the giftle gle us,
| To see oursel's as others see u.s."
Phrenology teaches this; There is
nothing more valuable than know
ledge of ones self.
To you, young men, l would say
ascertain whether or not your lady
love can make good bread. for if she
can't, you will have to eat great deal
Of dough; and if so, it will be no great
matter, for it will only be dough-heads
eating dough. Laughter The plain
fact is that bread has to be baked, aud
you can draw your inierences. Then,
again, see to it that your lady-love is
healthy. There are two causes Of the
female weaknesses of to-day. First,
fashionable habits and here l would
say, girls, be healthy first, and then
just AS fashionable as you please. ALI
other is female boarding shools. They
take our daughters ana pack them be-
tween brick and mortar walls, and tell
them they must not romp or take exer-
else, because it is not lady-like, and
many Of them are literally educated
to death. The great want OF Amerl'
can society is robust, healthy mothers,
and the longer you live the truer you
will find this remark. The first ele-
ment of wife is womaGliness, ana the
first element of husband is manliness.
With them, you have all; without
them, you have nothing. Young ladies,
you may take it as q fixed fact that il
your beau is capable of mistreating
his washerwoman he will treat you the
same way.
In courtship, the frs! great error OF
young folks is that they court by the
quarter. They love here u little and
there Il little, whereas the first law OF
true love is permanency. A may love
his vile ever SO much, but if he dallies
with other woman 1t will xiii this love
tor the wife, or her love will kill the
other; it is impossible for a man u
love two women at the same time
Now, wnen you whispered love to your
sweetheart, was it not an exclusive
lover Suppose lover says, Aata,
love you 1or tins, that or the other, bul
/ love Lott4 for something else; what
does Kate say2 Why, she tells him
"Away with your love; don't wan
it," Be careful when you begin &c
love, and unless marriage is your OBJ