The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-01-09
LOVE AND ITS DURATION.

SOmeDOuy VINO ulun spSilu all DIS |
time sitting around the house growl-
ing at flies and raising blue chaos
whenever dinner wasn't ready to the |
has placed the opinion on
record that with woman love is an
absolute reality, while with man it
is little more than the cOmmonest
kind of side show, and from what
we have been able to CLEAN from a
close and somewhat extended obser-
vation of the peculiarities and eccen-
tricities of this prevalent passion, we
are persuaded that his conclusion is
one of the stubbOrncst facts that ever
went unthrashed. We have noticed
with u good deal of frequency that
when a woman loves she shuts both
ewes, smothers her reason, repudiates
the wisdom of parents, and walks in
to gulf from which she can never
be rescued, and to save her sweet
gizzard she can't tell why she does it,
any more than she can explain why
she squats in the middle of the floor
to button her shoes, The man to
whom her soul has grown with root
lets that can never be broken on the
cradle side of the grave, may be a.
homeIy as q wooden SHOE and not
worth tinker's anathema for any
thing human research could ever dis
cover, and yet to this daughter of de-
lusion he is more beautiful than Il
milliner's window, aud all that j.
manly, noble and good besides. By
the exercise of a little lIrenSighteU
strategy you can sometimes change
the purpose of the maniac VINO II
about to boost your soul into eternity
with meat axe; but when Il dart
from the bow of Cupid has once pen
etratcd the corset ofa young Womal'
nothing can heal her heart and bring
back a health of mind that will make
her think and act like Il rational be
ing. From theuccforth dclualol
guides her destiny, and in the temple
Of her soul an idol is exalted whom
nothing but death or divorce CouI'
,hatter. 1t don't make II smlthcrecl.
Of difference what sort OF II ptize paG'
Ilape the man of her choice may turn.
out to be, the result is the same. He
may be proud and lazy, gifted an
Lhrcadbare, rich and rascally, 1t IS al
;he same to her. She has robed nm
with an ideality that makes him seen
all that she would have him be. /.
ler parents oppose him ard try Il
open her eyes by showing him up IL
mis- true colOrs, she will imagine hcl-
self friendless and prosecuted, dnd H.
tead of turning her back on him,
ikea sensible girl, and doing he.
level best to rope in somebody worth
naving, she will fret herself inc
| ,ound-shouldered Mechanically, re.
fuse medicine, and worry herself into
a consumptivc appearance with more
alacrity than the genuine complaint
itself could do it. When 4 girl goe'
around looking like IL Salvation Army
prima dona, with 10 more stT'e ahou
1er than an old horse blanket it is
sure sign that love has played smasI
with her prospects, and wheh you be
hold damscl with eyes Ike those 0
a damaged mackerel, who-H nose i
blue at the tip and snatp-pointe'
from much Weeping, shuf1lirg aroun'
the house in an old dress that make
II man feel like fleeing I'd tie rcun
tains, YOU can salt it dowii to q Ger
fainty that she wants to r'utry maj
too worthless to make rfspectabI
fish bait. Some night, Wien leas
expected, she Will skip cut by tn
light of the moon to clopC with tn
scalawag, leaving more love in tn
home from which she steals than s h
will ever find in his bosom, and trot
+ that tinip on she is his I" comman
under all circumstances, no matte
whether he steals a hose or goes
Congress, and so long ~ lie treats ht
half white, 'dthing but the discover
that he has got mashed on some othe
rirl can never change hFr feelings t'
ward him. But how is i, on the oth'
side of Tie carpet? y man fa'is !
love the same rs mu'o goes dow
with a sinking bridge, Simply 1t
cause he can't help it, but it seido'
does him any permanent injury. III
shape of nose, the sweep of an ey
y or the wave Of a curl trips him L
>, and sett,ts his hash without M
ments warning, and there he IS, u
bluest kind ola captive until ma
riare or some new fascination breal
VI the charm that bihds him. He
/" pretty sure to love ike burni1
}, brush heap while he is about it, b
d the trouble is the flame is too arde
y to be durable. He will swear to
g blue-eyed sprite that he, loves her f
e all eternity, and within three mont
e after marriage he will go to howlil
y about her cooking and make her Ii
e a n,lrpaiury without Il streak Of lEf
l. IF she breaks down and dies of di
h couraeement, as not unfrequent
II bappens, he will slide up to son
. other hours before the daisies bloo'
again, in total forgetfulncss that