Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1876-05-11
Getting Over 1t.

+" You will get over It," Of all the
styptics applied to bleeding heart, a
wounded soul, this sounds the most cruel
but is, in fact, the most wholesome. The
reparative power of nature-that pis naeds-
cdtrtB of which schoolmen talked such
marvellous nonsense In the days when
ideas stood where facts stand now-is as
true of the human mind as ii is of the
body; and shattered joy repairs itself,
happiness is restored after mutilation,
wounded affection is healed, and scars
take the place Of sores, all the same in the
life of man as in the life of the world-in
souls as i'm plants. Ii is wonderful, when
we think OF it, what we do get over; some
of US, certainly, with more trouble and
taking longer time about it than others /;
but we all, with few exceptions, get over
everything in time, and after the due
amount OF despair has been undergone,
the due number of tears have been
shed. @t
1t is easy to understand the passionate
desperation Of inexperienced youth when
things go wrong, and disappointment
comes to shatter the fairy shrine that hope
and fancy had busted themselves in
building up out Of mist-wreaths and
rainbows. The boys fcver-ft of despair
when cruel parents interpose with their
vile prosaic calculations of how much for
house rent, and how much for the butcher
and baker, with the maddening deficit
against the artists income that Is TO pro-
vide food and home for the beloved, and
consequent denial of the daughters hand
and interruption of all intercourse for
the good of boutwell,, he thinks
that he shall never get over it! 1t has
broken his heart, destroyed his life, ruined
his happiness forever, and there is nothing
worth living for now since Araminta is
impossible. On her side, Araminta holds
that itwould be very nice to die and have
done with the trouble OF dressing for balls
when BERTHE is not there to see her
where, If he is there, lie is not to dance
with her, make sweet love in the con-
scrvatory, on the stairs, over the ices, the
champagne. She thinks that, BERTHE de-
MED, her womanhood will have no more
sweetness, bring her no more hope; she
will never get over it-nevcr, she says,
weeping, to her c0ntdaate, but next year
she is the radiant wife of WELT do
stock broker, and Berties, artistry and
love making are no more substantial than
her childish dreams OF dolls and dolls
houses. Berthe, too, laughs at his former
self, when he is prosperous II. A., paint
ing for guineas where formerly he was
not paid in pence, and meets with Ara
minta at the private view-she British
matron with her quivers full and her brown
hair gray; he also the rather of family,
who has done with dreams even in his
art, and who paints what will sell rather
than what he thinks TO be the best. All!
the Berties and Aramintas of life get over
their romances with humiliating CELEBRITY !;
and that els medicdtrsr is sometimes
quicker and more thorough i'm its opera
ton than is quite satisfactory TO. the self.
love Of either. Submission to the in
eyitable Is all very well in its way; but
nobody likes that submission to be too
entire when II involves the loss of him
self -
The mans deeper disappointment--the