The Washington critic., 1886-06-01
MATRIMONIAL PROVERBS.
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jugai Love and Welded Happiness.
Compiled by the N. Y. Sun from Her Book Of
Essays.
Aristotle said. "Whoovcr is de.
lighted with solitude Is either q wild
beast or god" We have In us a
good deal of each, but yet we are
neither, and self alone could never suf-
fee us. The human soul was not made
to contain itself 1t was made to spill
over, and IL does and will spill over.
Such is the reciprocity of heartsl SO
souls wander in search of each other
So many royal heart languishes in
exile, till beneath its prison bars Love
stands and sings Its own familiar and
enchanting song
There is love, and love, but the
rational, lasting love must admit, at
least, If not demand, for Its persistence
some real acquaintanceship. To all
love that rightly eliminates in mar
riage there is doubtless an irrational
phase, normal abnormality that may
or may not outlast the honeymoon aud
then gives place to something better.
Indeed, the conditions of concrete al.
truistic faith do not demand the con-
ditions of courtship or of marriage
In the fresh young years Of our lives
there is q facility of feeling, readi.
ness of devotion, reckless expendi.
ture Of love.
I ,,N0 ho oaciar f,r N 10, ln-
lieve in somebody else than for man
to do so. Men, as a rule, are very
much occupied in believing In them
selves. Woman is confessedly altru-
istic. But this faith, although not in.
consistent with the estate of holy mat
rimony, is yet not dependent upon that
estate.
A flirt is the most harmless person in
the world. A genuine Irritation is the
faircst bargain possible--nothing for
nothing, nihtl co nihilo. If one gets
hurt he RECEIVERS immediately--for
flirts are ethereal creatures; you can
walk through them and not know
there is anything there. 1t is all a
matter of tenuous reciprocity.
More than one woman goes TO the
making Of one man, or, If not, the man
lacks something in the making. The
mother makes the man, perhaps, but
the wife manufactures him. Sometimes
the wife, in her manufacture. confirms
the making of the mother, and some
times she counteracts 1t.
Whom tho haort;r,I ,i,I n
| pet child wife of Mohammed's old age,
arrogant with the arrogance of beauty
and favorite, attempted to rally her
now illustrious and powerful husband
upon his loyal love for his first wife,
| and said to him, "Was she not old? and
has not God given you better in her
| placer" Mohammed replied, with an
| eflusion of honest gratitude: "No, by
Allah There never can be q better.
She believed in me when men despised
| me-"
The woman. SOUL when 1t sets itself
| TO come to the rescue--in church, State,
society, family-will subordinate oil
other things.
The energy and devotion and credul-
ity and constancy and jealousy and
consuming passion and triumphant
worship that go into woman's love for
one man make it the thing IL is,
| From the Presidents First Annual Message t.
| Congress.
The fathers of our families are the
best citizens of the Republic. Wife
and children are the sources Of patriot.
ism, and conjugal and parental affec.
tion beget devotion to the country.