Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-10-03
BETWEEN OURSELVES.

raul, enterprlslng, glorious st. Paul, not to be
behind this great metropolis of the world, has
its claimant, too, in the person of Philippe
Egalitc Brown-rock, whose plan was not for
any played-out, aristocratic title, but for the
soft and sympathetic role of spouse.
q, for the genius of Miguel Cervantes to de-
plct as he did the touching episode of the
Knight of La Mancha's chivalrous yet unre-
Quilted affection for his Dulcinea del Toboso!
Alas, Cervantes is dead. and dead too is that
respectful COMMUNICATION for unreciprocated
love which made the literature of those fresh
and credulOus periods immortal.
Now sordid element is interfused with our
love making which renders it rather a matter
of calculation than of that egregious
spontaneity commemorated in song and atory
erewhile. The recklessness, the foul-hardiness
and the enthusiast m of attachment, and match
making have measurably vanished. In their
stead We behold sort of game where the stake
is pref ty apt to be money, with the woman or
the man. as the case may be, in the background,
and the pile" foremost, while the Fates are
playing for what is in sight. And the rest2
You took the money and you had your choice.
We sing the songs, and we read the roman
ces, but the sentiment is lukewarm, if it be
not completely dead to us, and the heroes and
heroines are almost NEUROLOGICAL in this trad
ing sphere of ours.
We think with satisfactory sheer of bonnie
Annie Laurie, who went back on her lover, de-
| spite his undying poetic tribute to her, and
married tie other fellow with fine old name
and home. Annie was girl after the moderR
heart, who wasn't going to fool away substan-
tial chances for any sentimental fol, de-rol.
We've got the beautiful song though, and the
lover who felt SO exqulsitely the charms of his
sweetheart has genuine hold
| on the tenderest memory of the world. IT'S
| said that it is the Homer and Shakespeare in
| men which causes their reproduction through
the centuries. Possibly tbs the belief of the
majority of men, too, that they could be the
same lovers and feel the same emotion Douglas
of Finland poured with such delicacy and
warmth, and loyalty, in the cadences of Annie
Laurie.
In its reactive effect on different people, the
| song has been given double fame, by the la
mented Bayard Taylor, and hosts of others.
Yet very few know that twas Douglas whose
great heart was cheated, while Annie and
Craigdarroch took the world easy, and the
braes of Maxwelton were the one spot of all
the world yearned for by the brave soldier be
You'd the German ocean with his brigade.
! But let us return to to our M0utoT. 1t is
somewhat cruel and unjust to make an ex-
ample of an individual for a
failing which is characteristic
of the whole sex, almost without exception.
when poor simpleton of fellow plumes
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his campaign in the belief that love can be
successfully lame as well as Eblind we smile
because to US the case would seem well-nigh
ridiculous. We believe that le djG5Ie 50iteur
| is more efficient agent usually than Cupid on
crutches or hobbling along with cane.
And yet do you know that some of these
lameters Just stump it into grand passion
sometimes, and bear off some of the finest
matr imonial prizes? The feeling which be-
gins with dash of pity is finally precipita ted
into pronounced preference, and presto, con-
quest. OF course there must occasionally be
exceptions and our poorl Philippe was brought
to legal halt, although i faith he's been do
ing that for years in his own way. Was Thu
the reward of his peculiar bravery in seeking
to deserve the fair?
Philippe is an ill-used man, and if he's at all
resentful ne can find a vent for This blighted
no pes in a book, like the illustrious ,Chevalier
Henry Wykoff, who took the world into his
confidence when he was scorned by Miss Gam.
bic, by writing out MY courtship and Its
consequences" He was bound to have pecu
MARY solace when the heiress failed him.
The aggravation of Phihppe's case must be
that he was rashly importunate that he was
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT squelched, for mascu
line egoism, which is so pronounced and pre-
valent that, were the law to lay hold of all the
unduly prominent cases, twould read like
registered lists of voterssin each ward. Their
, is the man who is living paraphrase of Joe
Gargery's recurring remark of his wife, ''She
wor a fine hgger of woman, Pip! His fgge-
is more aggressive TO the pubi
eye in hulkiDg obtrusiVe outlines
than legion of PhiIippes, and yet he:goes SEQ
free.
Look at the dancing elegant who waltzes int
female admiration and affection, and is quite
|, as fatal as Herodias. Nothing is done TO him
even when he gives himself offensive airs il
public before people mot of his Set
And the man never seen day or night withou
his toothpick stuck between his teeth-he il
the one of all the crowd who should be gobblec
By the law-because no woman was ever civil
to him who wasn't according to his dictun-
his victim even to criminality.
Where is Philippe beside such specimens Of
the sex? He is harpooned by the law for sol
|, of persecution which was at least earnest.
Our commercial coquetting with what we
call love has abrogated the old-time high hand
ed way of comprising difficult or uncertain
suit Twas the argument of Boutwell, with
Mary Stuart, and the bold Scotsman who
carried off Lord Ullin's daughter, leaving that
frustrated man to wring..his hands, and cry out
across the stormy water, as any reader tc
this day will tell you, in far more heart-rend-
, ing accents than the original Jacobs, meaning
the bereaved parent.
The Scotch were dreadful fellows in this
business of abduction. Macleod, of Dare
carried off the young woman he vainly loved
in yacht ana they both went down in storm
off the Hebrides. What happiness he expected
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