Claiborne guardian. [volume] (Homer, La.) 1877-188?, 1878-09-25
LOVE-MAkING.

LOVE-MAKING.
1t was that gentle and courteous knight,
the mirror Of chivalry, who wrote:
Dumb swans not chattering pies, do lovers
They love indeed who quake to say they
love.
And the lines portray well the reverent
way Sir Philip thought of the sex. Bnt
true love must he told in words; nay, more,
an undue power has been given to the
tongue in courtship, for docs not the great
master, Shakespeare, ssy,
That man that hath tongue is no man
II with his tongue lie cannot win woman
But with the woman the tongue in hon.
eat love-making may fail, else the sex 10
lees firm than the writer believes them.
But whether il be silent or spoken, wheth-
er the yearning heart declares itself in Ian
gushing eye or speaking gesture, the love
making must 80 on. There are yet tangles
in Nereas' hair. The signing st~phons,
the loving Philliscs and gushing Amaryl-
lises must at ali times be permitted to play
to its full conclusion the part allotted
them in the great Drama. Love-making
played coz dmac. The Billet-Doux writ
and rewrit until at last the smooth page
bcan upon its creamy surface the CALI
graphic expression Of vows most potent
the boqnet cullcd with tend-rest care in
early morning, before the thirsty sun has
drunk the dew drops from the bosom Of the
fowers-tbe tiny blossom, rich in soft per.
fnme, but richer still in emblem most ex-
pressive-fruits arranged with the skill
and taste lover only knows-all these
must do their part to aid simple or eiabo-
rate speech to win the fair-cvcn the gor-
geousness of apparel must aid in the work.
$50 men deck the body in gay ornaments
| to witch sweet ladies' with their words and
looks"
Courtship. lovc-naking! The gray head
numbers the two or the one a. among the
youthful follies, sneers at the weakness OF
his kind, aud remembers not that in the
days Of his youth he thus found the part
ner Of all his joys and ills.
! The art Of Love-Making" was the title
of volume through the leaves Of which
glanced the other day gave no thought
to the originality of the work, for ] AIN
certain Oyid has faiherel all the modern
books Of this style; but | mentally ejacu.
lated cui boso, How useless such 4 work
Can human skill make al art Of that which
nature has made the common knowledge OF
all!-the knowledge of instinct.
She in 4 woman, therefore may I've wooed
She is q sosan, therefore may sr won.
Thus mis-h all mascnlines know. This il
the touch Of nature that make all til,
world kin
There 10 no art of honest cuurtshir. Civ
en- an appropriate time, proper place, tn
problem solves its.lf But the proper tim
and place, there via begin the differences
The youth Of Intensely sentimental turi
feels that only in the Good groves when th
velvet sward is besprinkle'l with will
fiowers-when the sun rays fall with sub
duetl brightness hrsk-p into shiverin,
lances Of light by the tre~bkrg bc~gass-
only here should vows and prayers Of Low
be breathed. But who can softfy speal
sweetly modulated ysrotest ations when hai
~ spiders dangle from the tree tops-whel
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chance all the way down the neck Il II.
kncriiisx s~siu-whcn horned caterpillar
with Shiny trcsd seek k~l9ment bcneatl
the wristbands or make predatory incur
sious into the tops of shocsf Sentimcn
aud entomology go not in pairs.
The gourmand would perhaps choose
. his time and place the petit oHpcr, and be
tween the rclisLing bits of pok "r sps q
ruby wipc would project languishing CLAN
ccs and INTERCEPT loving words.
A sleigh ride has the endorsement of hig
Authority, but Of that bnt few in our sum
land can speak
A ride in stage will never do for sue
cesxftfi love-making-still leas desirable 70
80 pleasant and important purpose is tn
vehicle strangely named hack" Their
are those who have had srch experience
and with gnashing teeth and mental obju'
CATION have they registered solemn vow
that there shall bc no repetition Of tina
same. Think Of il. The stored recesses {
the mind arc searched for fitting phrase
the countenance is composed into that de
cent gravity the occasion dema,hs-th
eyes are made to blaze with feeling, and !
the midst Of the sentence pregnant wit
meaning. jolt, rip, tear, and the jewels al
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