The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-05-17
Counting DAYS.

1t ls just as natural for a young man
to go counting, as it is for dog to bark
at the moon, or duck to take to water.
The thing is born with him, and it is
developing all the way along, until be
gets TO be sixteen, eighteen, or twenty,
and then the climax is reached, and be
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 1t Is, if not well handled, to leave
lastlngly 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
cognjz ant of it. 1t can't be concealed.
1t 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-made and courted, and no
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 soul's content on the
memory of how she pressed his hand last
night, while her heartless pa was volun-
teering the information that he always
| shut up his house at ten O'Clock.
He becomes aGsurdly particular about
his shirt bosoms, and it seems incredi-
BILE what vast amount of agony linen
done into plaits can cause him! His
necktie Is also source of distress, and
If he manages to get the right hitch on
it IN twenty times trying he is very
lucky.
He feels that without her he shall die.
Perish the universe, and all in it before
he forgets her! The stars may fall, the
sun dissolve in blackness, the ocean
beat itself into dry land, but his love
shall never diei It is as eternal as the
heavens, and considerably more SO.
He is redolent in perfumery. His hair
is oiled to perfection, and so are his
mothers wallpaper and tides.
His moustache, if it be visible to the
naked eye, is scented, and he feels of it
lougiDgly, as if he depended on it to
stand by him and help him on.
1t is amusing to see what tender
ness develops itself in his heart for
everything about ner home. He thinks
her father and mother are paternal and
maternal wonders. Her Aunt Sally is
charming. Her mischievous little
brother Tom he tolerates.
He loves the place of her abiding.
The two-story, green-shaded house
which contains her is fairy palace, and
she doen't notice how badly it needs
Singing. The front yard, where
ere growing two lilac bushes and a
bunch OF tansy, Is enchanted ground.
He leans over the one-hinged gate as if
he adored it, and is never SO happy as
when he sits on the broken-springed
hair sofa-that always goes off with q
crash when you sit down, as if it were
frightened-by her side.
He Is in love, and the world is place
of glory, and everything in it is q orious.
He doesn't notice that she is freckIed.
and he is mad as hen" when his en-
vious sister says she paints, and has got
a turned up nosei Turned-up nose, in
deed! Her olfactory organ is simply
perfect
He lives in this high pressure condi-
ton for few weeks, and then he begins
to tone down. BE gets cold going out
at night to look at the moon. He sees
other girls vino have feet, and hands,
and eyebrows nearly as nice az hers.
She snubs him for her cousin from the
city, and he gets into tearing passion,
and throws the slippers and the watch
case she made him II the CRATE, she
gives him back his ring, and the fat is
all IN the fire!
And then both OF them are ready to &C
through the same thing again with some
body else.