Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1879-04-16
WHAT GIRLS GET IN LOVE
WITH.

WHAT GIRLS GET IN LOVE
WITH
Girls keep on falling in love with
some thing or another with man at.
tached to it. 1t is not q new thing to
love. There has been more or less Of
that going on in the world for several
thousand years, but the advancing civ.
ilization Of the ago has brought along
with it many modern improvements,
of which love gets It's share. Probably
a young man is just as nice being TO
fall in love with now--and there isn't
any doubt that young woman is
great deal nicer-than was the case
twenty or thirty centuries ago, but
girl of this day, with all her sweetness,
is perverse and declines TO follow after
the fashion OF her greatgrandmothers
away back IN the ages She may have
a strange idea that girls then fell in
love with a man by the most direct
route because there was nothing else
to fall in love with, because girls then
didn't wear frizzes and have plumes
and paper flowers in their hats and
hundred other things to fill their minds
and hearts, which keep the girls of our
time too busy for anything. But our
girls must not be misunderstood. They
are always thinking about a man, al
ways, only they don't fall in love with
him if the developments of nearly
every day 60 for anything. They are
forever trihing with themselves, and
they go desperately and hopelessly in
love, sometimes with one thing and
sometimes with another, but not often
with man. Occasionally the tender
passion is aroused by buttonhole bou.
quet, the sweetest thing you ever saw;
frequently it is perfectly lovely nous.
tache, black-it must always be black
that kills; sometimes many-color-
cd necktle, or seal ring, or pair Of
elegant boots, or diamond pin, or oil.
most anything which would naturally
be classed with these glittering attrac.
tions to swlndle young woman's Of.
fections. OF couse there is always
a man attached, and that may natural.
| ly be accounted Of some consequence,
but it is too rarely considered until it's
too late.
There could hardly be m ore forci-
BILE illustration of this eccentric course
of true love than was given IN the case
of Massachusetts young woman, the
facts in which have but recently come
to light. This young woman had fallen
in love with something, possibly q gold.
headed cane or diamond pin; ut all
events, she was enough in love to get
married, and in few days she was
overcome with grief TO find that she
actually had husband, and scandal.
ously enough he was man with thick
lips. Ii twas an unfortunate discovery,
and the young wife was so broken
down and made wretched by it that
she insisted upon going back to her
mamma as well as getting mp q divorce
case. How this deluded young thing
ever found out that her husband had
thick lips may be one of the strange
things of the age, but it is not at all sin
gular that she shouldn't have found it
out before the marriage. If he had
not in moment of Observation-Disclosures
laid by his gold-headed cane or remov-
cd his dazzling pin, che might have
gone on loving indefinitely, and he
wouldn't have known the difference;
but Just as soon as she detected the
man she saw at once how cruelty she
had been deceived by her own fitful
imagination. 1t wasn't the man she
loved, although she may sometimes
have supposed it was. 1t would be
Just like the young woman Of this very
kind to say that this story is ridicu-
lous and il is, the more so because il
is true. Girls arc doing just such
things now every day, and there is no
way, apparently, in which it can be
avoided, unless we can recover some Of
the lost and old-fashioned ideas Of love.
Under the present system there seems
to be absolutely no way in which q
girl can find out whether young man
has thick lips or crooked finger or
red hair till he puts aside some Of the
fascinating ornaments with which
girl falls IN love, and he never does
this before marriage. He may even
have an ugly red nose lurking about
his countenance, but young woman
in love with his necktie or his nous.
tache would never be able to detect it.
The fact clearly is that love is too
blind for mortal use. He doesn't see
as well now by gaslight as he used to
years and years ago in the unsteady
aud hideous glare Of the tallow candle,
and there is no eye-opener that seems
TO reach his case TO serve as check
upon his headlong and too often disas.
trous career. A moustache is just the
same over the front gate in the dark
as in the brightness Of an electric light
If the girl is In love with II, and II isn't
worth while for any but those who
may be interested IN tho divorce bust
ness to bother much about it.--Phild.
Times.