The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-19

desperate
As oft as any passion under heaven
GEE. That does affiict our natures" Hamlet.
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There has been more written on love than any
other topic since the world began, and as the
population of the world increases and tho inhab-
itants thereof grow in knowledge more and
more will be written of it. The simpering school
girl sends love missives to the boy she fancies
most; the little miss Just budding into woman
hood can think of no other topic for AN essay;
the young lady who has donned long dresses and
stands on the threshold of the society
world writes of it in all her letters to school
mates and friends; the lady who begins to
cast furtive glances over her shoulders to see
what she has passed writes in the sands as she
pensiveiy. yet impatiently, waits to be fatally
wounded by Cupid; the spinster writes page
upon page to prove it myth, delusion,
snare, herself being witness that there is no
such thing; the trembling hand of age writes of
it as silvered page that is ever, ever bright and
fresh, even when the others have grown dim and
musty. Thus from childish youth to childish
age love is woman's dearest theme.
with thee conversines [ forget all time;
All seasons and their changes, all please alike.
So spoke general m other, and with eyes
Of conjugal attraction unreprovd
And meek surrender, half embracing leand
On our first father half her swelling breast
Naked met his under the flowing gold
OF her loose tresses hid he in delight
Both of her beauty and submissive charms.
Smile with superior love-, Milton.
Milton evidently had notion that women are
inferior to man. even in the matter of love, else
he would not have spoken of Adam deigning to
smile on Eve with superior love-" AS a rule,
poets seem to think women can love harder than
men, and that theirs is purer and more unset
fish love than mans. Possibly Milton was
little too much soured with the world to write
sweetly on such theme. He gives woman
credit, however, for wondrous power over man.
Adam was influenced Z.
Against bis powerful knowledge, rot deceived,
But fondy overcome by female charms"
So it is yet, and so it will ever be. Before
Adam was love was, and when the last OF
Adams race shall have departed, love will still
walk the cold, dead earth, fearful that some
living thing may have escaped the general
DOOM and exists unloved.
AS rule, men are bigger fools in matters per-
tanning to love than women. Before labelling
this statement "a Mistake" stop and think q
little. Do you not know of more men who have
committed suicide on account of getting bounced
than women2 Have you not known more men
to make spectaces of themselves on account of
being s'cut out" or going wrong because of "a
cross" in the love wires than women2 Statistics
show that there are more men sent to the insane
asylum by that constituencies little busybody,
Cupid, than women.
Can you think just now OF as many women Of
your acquaintance who have gone to the bad ON
account of love as you can of men? AS women
are partc.,e"ly loud in their clamors for justice
their favor to show that in this matter of love
they are stronger minded aud more levelheaded
than the mens -
s.Love is sickness full of woes,
All remedies refusing;
plant that with most cutting grows;
Most barren with best using"
Much of the stuff that passes current for love
is nothing but sickness. In many respects it is
similar to sea-sckness, coming on suddenly, de-
bitating both body and mind and making the
victim miserable.
The love-sick swain is just as pitiable a sight
as.the sea sick tourist Neither cares whether
the sun ever rises or sets again. They want to
die, and occasionally, when nature refuses to ac-
commodate them, they take the affair into. their
own hands.
For genuine love the homeopathic system of
treatment is the only one that will ever prove
avaiiing. Love is the disease and love the rem
edy.
There are many cases where dose of blue
mass or some other efficient liver regulator is in
dcated. This may seem silly, but it isn't half as
silly as it seems; it is positive fact Then there
are dyspeptics who think themselves in love
when in reality it is only rritability of the pneu
mogastric nerve. The sensation is reflex, which
accounts for it not being readily traced to the
stomach. If lovers feel the affiatus most about
an hour after eating they may safely suspect
that it is due to fiatulency; but if it is worse
when the stomach is empty it is probably due to
lrriLdtlou Ol tl0 pHSunOSdSUrlc nerve.
No one should marry while they are troubled
with either dyspepsia or liver complaint as there
is great danger of the passion disappearing with
the disease.
Poetry and love are supposed to 90 hand in
hand, but the love that SO warps mind as to
turn the thought into rhyme, can usually be
cured with good liver regulator. Poets are
generally bilious morose and cranky. This does
not apply as generally to women as to men. The
a. fnpr ornI Foil %alyn H.
ticularly in the early stages of the disorder
If during this time the man hasn't got a good
adviser, he is liable to make fool or a wreck Of
himself, because he may propose and be accept
ed and 60 out and tell everybody he knows that
he is the happiest man in the world He is
happy, or at least he enjoys the peculiar sensa-
ton that possesses him. 1t is an undefinablo
sensation, which, at first, is most enjoyable,
indeed, bat as IL grows older itseems to take on
tinge Of misery. One moment the victim will
swear that he is the happiest of the happy, and
the very next that he is the most miserable Of
the miserable. Queer, isn'tita
The larger half of marital infdelity is due to
mlstaklng blliousness for love- and the other
half to causes equally as avoidabe as this. The
love that makes sick is not the kind that
yields continuous supply Of happiness, and as
rule, the more violent the attack the sooner it
is over, and the longer the time for regretting
the mistake
There is just about as much use talking PHI
liosophy to lovers as reading poetry to an OWL
Ihey wink and look wise, and that is all. It is
pity 1t Is so, and were it not for the prospect Of
change in the near future the outlook would
be anything but encouraging. Not that genuine
love is less potent than in Eden, but that dys-
pepsia and biliousness are increasing with such
marvellous rapidity. To be happy people must
be healthy. A sickly lover is nuisance
Preachers and moralists are declaiming loudly
against divorce laws and citing the fact that
there is an average of one divorce for every ten
marriages, Do they ever stop to think there are
just grounds for twice as many morel Do not
the unhappy homes within the circle of their
acquaintance teach them that there is something
radically wrong and can they not see that d.
vorce or separation is the only remedy for itl
people what it is to love, and direct them in the
course that leads to happinessl A leaking boat