The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1876-05-03

archs, less morality In society, less D1ROtTy
in religion and more faith in mankind.
When we refer to history for the ''good
old days" we hear eternslly set up as a
paragon, what will we find? That the
world is better Ia every respect to-day
[ than IL was then, when poor Calico W as
thrust into prison for daring to en-
tighten his countrymen as to the
planet on which they lived.
Tasso, whose lips were never known
to wear smile, was cast into prison be-
cause he dared to show the passion that
God had planted in his heart, when the
immortal Michael Angelo through the tv-
ranny of Julius III. was compelled to stifie
the idealistic in his poetic nature and flee
| the anger OF the pontifcial monster who
was continually finding fault with the
"frozen music" of the great painter, when
the ptiless passion of ambition made
/ brother poison brother to wear his purple.
Read the history OF Africa, and see the con-
dition Of the Eye tisns who at one
time, when Europe was in the baby
| hood of civilization. were the models
of the old world. See England's history
of "the good Old days." and we shall see
J life torn asunder and blood answering
blood. Then, too, France. And who that
has read 1.-The Scarlet L. tier" will say
we are not better to day than we were
then, for cruelty and lack of Christian
charity is shown in our land by our puritan
| ancestors. The world is better to-day
than it was even century ago, and grows
better every day. Where would we find
( in this modern age courtessns, women
stepped in immortality, holding sway over
our eminent lsw-givers, as they have
! d )ne in France "in the good old days"
| Let us LOT at one or two of these en-
blems of the social evil" For instance
the celebrated beauty, Ninon de L'Enclos,
who, If she said or wrote half the things
| tina, poets, scholars, scientists and philos
opheIs attributed to her, must have been
| perfect encyclopedias. But her immoral
| ity robs her worth of goodness or TO
nance. That she was exceedingly hesuti-
J full in the afternoon of life is a tact. His
torians who condemn her morals admit
that. Even at the advanced age of eighty
she was so skilled in the art OF Tejuvens-
ton and fascination that she had
the great men OF the day at her feet.
She died at the age of 80, alter having
lived so years of q life that showed
ANYTHING BUT PURITY
for It's record. The following extracts re-
ferring to her sex translate as coming
from her pen: "Men ere to blame il
women do rot love women" "There are
two classes of men that are pleasing to the
fair sex-thoss who love them and those
who desert Them" "There are more men
effsminste by their weak ness of heart than
there are women strong by their power OF
mind" mo man can thoroughly enjoy
life unless he has woman at
his side" sin love, handsome
young man is not always tempt
ing, but he is certainly compromising,
at requires more tact to command love
than TO command an army" "Love j.
only strong through our own weakness"
"When a woman ceases to love man, she
ceases also to think with any pleasure on
the kinduesses she has received at his
hands" "a young woman whose virtue is
guarded by a sentinel resembles a slave in
chains, who Ii embossed. would take sdvan-
tsge OF the situation and embrace liberty
at any cost" Beauty without grace is like
fish-hook without bait" "Love is like
lever, it has moments when the pulse is
so even one thinks herself convalescent,
then again dead" mo woman
should encourage by her silence
the first advances of Ter
lover, for love Is tyrsnnical,
usurps all and sspires to make continual
progress, and is only satisfied when desire
are dead" "Men are particularly good
natured when women pardon them Tor
some passing infidelity. Mark man who
has been cut late at night to some club or
place which be cares not to reveal. he
will be particularly tender to bis wife. Ii
Bu6 Is Qul6b Anu Oou0NoS hll Ills DucluSS--
like representations, his conscience hurts
him SO he can not help saying sweet
things to the innocent object of his decep-
| tion." i doubt If Ninon was capable of
Judging what q husband would say, her
experience was so much In the plu-
raj. Hence it is possible some
faithless spouse explained it to her.
She said love was naturally capricious.
She evidently did not agree with Michael
Angelo, who said, "ioye-it is q wing
which God has given the soul to bring il
nearer to Him." She also called that
divine passion IAN appetite, which one
day liked one fIui', tomorrow another,
without any special cause for the change"
Again she says, "l0ve Is traitor with
whom it is unsafe to plsy;" "Poets were
tools t. give the son of Venus torch, q
bow and arrow, because the p jwer of thai
god is only in bis blindness. While he is
blind he lover, md never reflects. r.
move his blindness, let him r. fiect, ana he
loves no longer. All, when loves intoxica-
ton passes away how we do laugh
at our follies. Love like pride is stronger
when fallen or ofte died." Heaven forbid
that Ninon de L'Enclos should be our
model as to what love is and what it is
not.
MARION DE LARME,
the wife OF the unfortunate 'Cinq Mars"
who, though the chere annie Of Richlieu
and a woman of immoral character,
deemed all that was spiritual love, and
what Ninon deemed love, the fair Marion
deemed passion. This she took no doubt
from her own life, She was mixed up in
the politics of that epoch aud showed very
little OF the tender toward Der husband.
But when she heard his life was in the
hands of the cruel Cardinal Richelieu,
then did she give an example
of wiiely devotion, aud when all her efforts
to procure bis pardon failed, and he was
put to death, she turned her wrath on
| Rlcheheu's head and made his ears deaf with
curses louder and darker than the course
of Rome" She attempted her own lite by
poison, but falling, deemed that God let her
live to repent her past. Some historians