Smyrna times., 1872-11-27
MiSceII0 10 e o Us.
SkepticiSms on Love.
p" Men have died and worms have eaten them

:" Men have died and worms have eaten them
but not far Shdhspere.
Experience has opened our eyes to the
popular fallacy first love" ''Only love"
&c This economy does not suit our capacity
of heart; (query: Has the heart anything to do
with it?) and, further, we have it from a friend
of ours who has been three times married, that
the strength of his affection increased in each |
instance in arthmetical proportion-that is, he |
loved his third uxOrial appendsge sixteen times
more than the first. Originally we were a tri- |
umvirate. There was Bill, Ernest and myself,
alias ''od man." Ernest fought it long and
well, but at last succumbed-he was regularly
chloroformed into it. Poor fellow He is now
the happy father of three girls. Jubilate!
Bill says that sooner or later he and | will
have to 'resign our weaker aoW to Fate's i'm
perious shalt that we will profess the sacra
ment of matrimony, and have our names
appear in full in that "bestific corner" of the
newspaper. The present trouble is, all the best
women seem to be married off.
" 1t is the souls inalienable right to love-"
and Bill started out early in life armed with the
prerogative. At college and at eighteen he
'fell in love, to use the hackneyed term,
with the minister's daughter. Upon this
female he laid out his rising affections ltwas
certainly a grand passion-"a millennium in a
moment-a volume in word-a whirlwind in
I touch-a seventh heaven in a glance" as he
familiarly called it. This was his FIRST love, !"
and of course it did not last long 1t devoured
itself alter devouring him for four weeks He
next succumbed to a widow, fair. fat, and
forty" who coiled herself around his trusting
heart In week this was over; for she
, married our Latin professor. He was at first
inclined to immediate himself upon the altar o.
e this black and bitter memory,
of
n And not wish to gild the gloom
= hero for a six-volume novel-he made vov
ic never to trust in woman again. According h
orthodox style he should have thrown himsel
from some eminence, and conferred the honor
- upon it of being another Lovers Leap"
But luckily middeaged affinity came t. hi
n rescue. " But man proposes, while Go
I dispOses." Let us not lit the veil from thes
y sad experiences in Bills early life. AS a
argument against this theory of first love,
he triumphatly points to at least a score G
mittens that he added to his wardrobe in tn
i'll course Of two years. and insists that there
'ls still spring, some ewhere hidden away in h
bosom, of after-tenderness.
Different lovers characterize the differer
ly periods of life. We lay the 'frstlings of ou
- love" at the feet of women much older tina
ourselves; we are at that transitional period ju
merging into the full-hedged man; the pr
phetic down appears on our chin. Yesterda
we were boys and girls; to day we are men an
uIhses women. We desDise the yesterday, and loo
aDd down upon girls. We have often walked arm
T TsTs in-arm and hand-iu-hand with Mary or Susa
TIot but what strange thrill passed through OF
rid. frame when Miss Bella Donna lat least thirt
passed her arm con6dipgly through ours as
a. escorted her home How manly we felt, he
- proud of the Invitation to 'call, and he
NE desperately we fell in love with herl Come
us ten years hence "a change has come O.
the spiri: of our dream" Another phase
life, another love, and you may rest assur
ie' we have made different choice. Come to
SCI set at fifty or sixty. Ahl you know our ideal-t
as 'ag girl of seventeen En- pdssant, We will rema
my that it is very peculiar that gray headed me
whose buffetings with the world should ha
led them to more sober philosophy, are
most desperate and unreasonable lovers.
- Now we will go little deeper into Il
D, "true love these matches made
: heaven" Miss Ettie Kett formed brillis
'l natch-she married man worth two hundr
= thousand dollars. Now, here is somethi
substantial; here are some of the good thir
inch of life-silks and fur;s, brownsto9e front 2
,"Dg v,Ds carriage Verify, brilliant match Frier
: aa5 and relatives crowd around and witness the
$50. Of sale, and applaud: 'Well doneI Miss Et
Kett. Do you love this man? Do you thi
4. he will make you happy?' why, of cou
soad / will be happyl"
'm Miss Sallie Mander marries man Of veal
Of influence, of position. Does she love hi
IN Well, she thinks she does" she "thil
IL. she'll try" at any rate. It's worth
trial.; and mamma thinks so, too" Is
happy? Why not
Miss Euphemia Ariadne marries the man
loves "a case of true love'1 He proves
be a lazy, worthless fellow, utterly selfish
L. unable to earn his own bread; it is const