Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-05-14
Counting DAYS.

1t Is just as natural for young man
to 60 counting, as it is for dog to bark
at the moon, or q duck to take to water.
The thing is born with him, and it is
developing all the way along, until he
gets to be sixteen, eighteen, or twenty,
and then the climax is reached, and he
knows what is the matter with him-he
wants to ''pay attentinn" to somebody.
Scientific observers tell us that the
younger the fever called love is
taken, the milder it runs, and the less
liable it is, if not we'll handled, to leave
lastingly bad results behind it..
Therefore, it is best to have it young.
When the young man falls in love, he
thinks nobody on earth knows anything
about it but himself, when the fact of it
is, everybody he is acquainted with is
cognizant of it. It can't be concealed.
It breaks out all over him, and every
body laughs at him, just as if the whole
world had not been through with the
same thing, and been going through with
it ever since Adam woke up to find his
girl ready.msde and courted, and nc
other fellow with more money lying in
the background.
The youth who is in love loses his ap
petite. he is living on her smiles, and
feasting to his souls content on the
memory of how she pressed his hand last
night, while her heartless pa was volun
teering the information that be always
shut up his house at ten o'clock.
He becomes absurdly particular about
his shirt bosoms, and it seems incredi.
BILE what vast amount of agony liner
done into plaits can cause him! Hi
necktie is also source of distress. ani
if he manages to get the right hitch OF
it in twenty times trying he is yer.
lucky.
He feels that without her he shall die
Perish the universe, and all in it befor'
he forgets her! The stars may fall, tn,
sun dissolve in blackness, the oceal
beat itself into dry land, but his low
shall never die! It is as eternal as tn,
heavens, and considerably more 80.
He is redolent in perfumery. His hal
is oiled to perfection, and so are hi
mothers wallpaper and tides.
His moustache, if it be visible to tn
naked eye, is scented, and he feels of i
lougingly, as if he depended on it t,
stand by him and help him on.
1t is amusing to see what tender
ness develops itself in his heart TO-
everything about her home. He think
her father and mother are paternal ant
maternal wonders. Her Aunt Sally il
charming. Her mischievous It'll,
brother Tom he tolerates.
BE loves the place of her abiding
The two-story, green-shaded hous,
which contains her is fairy palace, ant
she doen't notice how badly it need
shirgling. The front yard, wher,
are growing two lilac bushes and :,
bunch of tansy, is enchanted ground
He leans over the ne-hinged gate as j
he adored it, and is never so happy a
when he sits on the broken-springet
hair sofa-thst always goes off with
crash when you sit down. as if it wer,
frightened by her side.
He is in love, and the world is place
OF glory, and every thing in it is glorious
He doesn't notice that she is freckled
and he is 'emad as hen" when his en-
vious sister says she paints, and has 20
a turned-up nosel Turned.up nose, in
deed! Her olfactory organ is simpl.
perfect!
| he lives IN tnlS n18n pressure conQ1
ton for q few weeks, and then he begin
to tone down. He gets cold going on
at night to look at the moon. He see
other girls vino have feet, and hands
and eyebrows nearly as nice as hers
She snubs him for her cousin from tn
city, and he gets into q tearing passion
and throws the slippers and the watch
case she made him II the crate. sh
gives him back his ring, and the fat
all In the fire!
And then both Of them are ready to 6
through the same thing again with some
J body else.