The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-06-06

Thoughts Upon the Subject in Miss Cleve
lands Book of Essays.

lands Book of Essays.
The ingenious editor of New York paper
that is renowned for its political alterations has
pored over Miss Clevelaud's book of essays,
and from it collected the following extracts:
s'Aristote said: Whoever is delighted with
solitude is either a wild beast or a god.' We
have in US a good deal Of each, but yet we are
neither, and self alone could never suffice us.
The human soul was not made TO contain itself.
1t was made to spill over, and 1t does and will
spill over"
''Such is the reciprocity of hearts So souls
wander in search of each other So many a
royal heart languishes in exile, till beneath it's
prison-bars love stands and sings Its own ia
miliar and enchanting SongW
"There is love, and love, but the rational,
lasting love must admit. at least, if not demand,
for its persistence some real acquantancesGip
To all love that rightly eliminates in marriage
there is. doubtless, an Irrational phase. a nor
NAL abnormality that may or may not outlast
thing better. Indeed, the conditions of concrete
altruistc faith do not demand the conditions OF
courtship or Of marriage"
lin the fresh young years Of our lives there is
q facility of feeling, readiness OF devotion, a
reckless expenditure of love"
sit may be easier for a woman to believe in
somebody else than for a man to do so. Men, as
a rule, are very much occupied in believing in
themselves. Woman Is confessedly altruistic.
But this faith, although not inconsistent with
pendent upon that estate"
"a flirt is the most harmless person in the
world A genuine Irritation Is the fairest bar
gain possibie-nothins for nothing. nihl ex
nihilo II one gets hurt he RECEIVERS Immediately
for firts are ethereal creatures; you can walk
through them and not know there is anything
there. It is all a matter of tenuous reciprocity
"MOre than one woman goes to the making of
one man, or, 1t not, the man lacks something in
the making. The mother makes the man. per-
haps. but the wife manufactures him. Some
times the wife, in her manufacture, con firms the
making of the mother and sometimes she coun-
teracts it,
when Ayesha. the beautiful girl. the pet
chiiG-wife of Mohammeds old age, arrogant with
the arrogance of beauty. and a favorite, at
tempted to rally her now ilustrious and power
full husband upon his loyal love for his first wife.
and said to him. Was she not oldf and has not
God given you better in her placer Moham-
med replied with an effusion of honest gratitude,
No. by Allah There never can be a better.
She believed in me when men despised me-"
1.-THE woman soul, 'shen 1t sets itself to come
to the rescne-in church. state. society, family
will subordinate all other things"
"The energy, and devotion, and credulity, and
consistency, and jealousy. and consuming pas
sion and triumphant worship that go into a
woman's love for one man make it the thing
itself" In conjunction with the above appears
the following, from the Presidents first annual
message to Congress: 1.-THE fathers OF our fam
lilies are the best citizens of the Republic.
Wife and children are the sources of patriotism,
and conjueal and parental affection beget devo-
tiou to the country"