The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-03-07
LOVE AND WOVEN.
Two Entertaining Subjects Treated from an
Unsentimental Point of View.


Unsentimental Point of View.
Greenyile Murray's New Eook, Under the Lens
Love- on the part of women is an inclination felt
for man who has made himself more agreeable
than other men. He may not be pleasant
fellow at all, but some physical or social superb
ority he possesses lifts him temporarily a
pedestal where no lords il till his very arrogance
helps to complete the fascination of the simple
creature groveling at his feet. | have seen girls
fan in love with the veriest cubs for lack of
other male society. Don't tell me there was any
deep sentiment in these attachments The girls
wanted husbands, that is all. They were obey
ing the natural law which attracts sex to SEX
and the social law which bids girl get married
as fast as she cam lest she glide into old spinster
hood.
If a girl, after deciding to accept genteel
pauper, chance to allure man who has it in his
power to make her bed of rose leaves, see how
quickly her eyes get opened to the beauties of
Incidence and luxury. Self-esteem tells her that
she was not made merely for the study of that
parsimonious arithmetic which consists in par
ing down bakers bills. She wants to walk in silk
attire, and feels grateful to the man who, by his
courtship, acknowledges her right to do SO. Who
can deny the magic of fine linen, Jewels, softly
cushioned broughams, champagne and obedient
menials upon womans minds And who can
dispute the still greater magic afforded by the
prospect of eclpsing sisters and school friends
who have married poorlv2
Sometimes if a girl has got hopelessiy engaged
near her wedding day that it is impossible to
break off the match without a scandal-pride
and vanity will induce her to keep her pledge
and this will be simply because the plutocrat
came too late into the field. If the two had
started at the post together or if the pauper had
had but half distance start the plutocrat
would have run him down and come in with flying
coiors Moreover, woman feels all her
life at having missed the chance of a rich mar
riage The Thought of il turns her sour the first
Erir
wretched husband has uxorial peevishness and
contempt poured upon him by the bucketful.
That may be, but we have also instances of
rich mems wives who deplored not having mar
ried their first loves, poor though they were.
(which all comes Of the contrariness Of hui
man nature in never being satisfied with the
present lot" responded the misoeynist emphatic
ally. The man who wrote the PRAISES of
Povertya--Seneca, wasn't it?-indited his re-
marks upon golden table, aud had couple of
slaves behind him to fan the flies away. A
woman who sits by her boudoir fire, with her
feet well warmed. a novel on her lap, and o
o'clock tea, and cream and crumpets at her ell
bow, is very apt to dream that she was cut out
for the mart of a heroine She gilds poverty with
her imaginative touches till it looks all rosy
Her husband boPes her, and she thinks Of the
other man who used to make her laugh and
whose muscles were like whipcord. She attrib-
utes to him talents which ne never had, charms
which she never discovered in him, whilo she
had the opportunity of observing him every
day, and she dreams OF herself as fighting lifes
battles by his side. and always winning
1t never occurs to her to reflect that the lot
she renowned was that of being perennial
wet-nurse, of living upon mutton hash, and
growing up into dowdy slattern, worried, and
perhaps bullied. by a man rendered cantauker-
Gus by failures in his profession. 1t is easy to
be happy in fancy with man whose ideal per
fections one may depict at ones leisure
woman is often found whimpering over novel
which pertrays the life of heroine such as she
thinks herself to be; but just let her rich hus-
band die. leaving her penniless and you'll see
whether she doesn't at once set her widows cap
at another rich man. sooner than betake herself
to that life of struggling which she deemed go
exciting when viewed from q distance.