Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-03-19
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What olive Logan Knows About
mr Them.
Notwithstanding the fact that the weather
was very unfayorabls last evening, Masonic
Hall was well filed on the occasion of Olive
Logan's first lecture Of a two nights en-
gagement, her subject being "The Passions"
Being introduced by Mr.. Rains, of the
Library Association, Miss Logan said that
the passions Of hate, envy, jealousy,
avarice, revenge, pride, love, hope, pity, and
JOY are our daily companions. The first
named are our bad enemies; the last
four are our friends. The bad passions are
OF the earth earthly, but the good passions
will be welcomed with Us in heaven when
we eothere.
You cannot take one set of passions and
say, ''you belong to bad men and women"
and lake another set and say, eyou belong
to good men and women but all these
passions belong 10 all of us sometime,
some where and somehow. There is Envy,
for instance; have met him in all sorts of
places and under all sorts of circumstances.
When "Paradise LOST was written, our
envious critic wrote, "The cd blind
schoolmaster, John Milton, hath written a
tedious poem on the fall of man, which, if
its length be not considered a merit, hath
no other"
A brother to envy is hate. l sometimes
hear the expression. ga good, hearty hater,"
but | do not like him, but say, give hate no
quarter.
| a first cousin TO these passions is jealousy.
Love is sometimes supposed to be insepara-
bly, connected with jealousy, but this is amis-
take; there is nothing in common be-
| tween them. They are as wide apart
as the poles. have heard girls say, 81
wouldn't give snap for man who is not
| Jealous sometimes. She fancies that the
man who is jealous Of her loves her. 1t is
no such thing. Selflove is the basis of
jealousy. The man in whose breast ieal-
ousy springs up, is furious because his
| rights are assailed. His vanity is wound
| ed. do not mean to say that man who
loves may no. be jealous; do mean to say
that jealousy is no proof of love.
How can l find words to express my
loathiDg for that passion of Revenge
that feeling which tempts q man to
lie in wait and murder one who has Of
Tended him. Life is too short for the ex-
ercise of these passions-hate aud re-
venge.
Avarice is a passion which, so far as /
can see, has neither relations nor friends,
but sits in the corner by himself, only ask
ing ''to be let alone" 1t is exaggerated
economy. Economy is a good thing. l
| have noticed that what is known as "a
good, generous, free-hesrted fellow" is al
ways very free with other peoples money.
| Laughter. In California the ma
tives have most supreme con-
tempt for ten cent pieces, but noticed
they always charged me the most extrava-
| CANT prices for every thing. People vary in
their ideas of economy. There was the
Dutchman who had his stable and his life
insured. The stable burned down and the
company decided to build him another, in
stead of payiBg'the money. This made the
Dutchman mad and he said he wouldn't
pay anything more on bis life insurance
policy. "Why," said the agent, 'you don't
want to lose what you have paid. If you
| should die now, your wife would
get $1,000" swell, 1 don't know
bout dat," replied the Dutchman; 'If die
now, aud mein frow comes to get de money,
you shust say to her, We'll, don't know
bout dat money. | guess We shust gets
you anoder man." Laughter
Pride stands in the way Of the gentler
passions-Love, Pity, etc. Pride often
stands in the way of love. If you are proud
of your being an American, | can excuse
you; or of your being Scotchman, or an
Englishman, or proud of the country you
were born in, whatever it is. The noblest
pride of life is that of the man who has
risen above the position to which he was
born. (Applause.) You may be proud
that your father was a drunkard and
thief, if in spite Of that, you are sober and
honest man.
Love, Hope, Pity and Joy are four beau
tifll girls, whose office in life is to make
people happy. Poets and sculptors make
mistake in representing Love as a boy-a
tat baby with feathers like hen. Love is
a girl-a bright-eyed girl. That boy-baby
is a humbug. (Laughter.) Love is true
love when il has no other
spirit than a desire to make its
object happy. The true spirit
of marriage is that man and woman are
equal. The girl who marries for the sake
OF a support, degrades her sex. She be-
comes dependent, and dependgnt is not
an equal.
The love that mother has for her child
is heaven born instinct, and can never so
dSVIdls uSIS " 40 q pun "OhAah III
ryland, during the war, who went to An
nspolis one day to meet her boy who was
to come up the bay. She carried on her
arm clean suit of clothes for him. She
asked "Where is my boy?" and wandered
among the crowd seeking him.
No one had seen him. She whispered,
"He has not come; he has not come" Day
after day passed, and every day she went
to the wharf with that clean suit of clothes
for her boy thrown over her arm, but as
certain as the sun rose that mother was at
tie wharf, whispering with white lips: 'He
has not come; be has not come" When
the war was over, they took her to luna
tic asylum, and one day in June-more
than two years after she had first gone to
meet her boy, she wandered back to that
spot with some old rags she had
managed to pick up somewhere. "Where
is my boy ?n she asked some sailors on the
wharf. They stared at her in silence.
He has not come He has not come!"
she murmmed. Darkness came; she sat
down in a secluded place and kept her
lonely watch. In the morning they found
her-desd, the CLASSY eyes staring upon
the bay toward the point where the steam
ers first came into sight.
He had not come to her-she had gone
70 him