The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1886-04-09
LAFAGAN'S LOGIC.
LOVE.


Love is cheap, and enjoy it.
1t IS another name for godliness.
1t is the only modern swindle easily
forgiven.
1t is the ingredient that greases the
saw of life.
1t is a nice cross between religion and
happiness.
Like the olive tree, it furtilizes the
surrounding soil.
Self-loveis selfish. 1t won't wash
and hold its color.
1t lifts fifteen ounces off from every
pound of sorrow.
1t is the first virtue weaned, and be-
gins to root early in life.
Like the smallpox in bad cases, the
only way to cure it is to die.
Some natures eve succeed in loving
anything but new cider.
The love that comes from heaven is
that of a son for his mother.
1t is just Is natural for humanity to
love as it is for a frog to jump.
"Unspoken love- is a good deal like
sea-sickness-pretty sick, but can't
vomit.
1t is charity's best substitute, as love
is charity, with a pedigree from heaven.
1t is the second law of nature, and
plays second fiddle only to the law of
self-prcservation.
Love dates from the beginning of
the world, and is therefore the grand
mother of creation.
Next to hot whisky, it has proba-
bly, done more to make a fool of man
than any other one thing.
When pure love is the traces to which
husband and wife are hitched they make
a bully team.
To many love is like measles. 1t new
cr catches either but once, and that
seems to satisfy them.
1t has never been t%ruthfully defined.
Like the smell of limberger cheese it is
hard to describe.
Love thy neighbor as myself is u
divine injunction, hlt it isn't every fool
that "a follow it.
have read somewhere that whisky
is mans only enemy that he ever sue
cceds in loving to any extent, and | be-
lieve it.
Some people are not constituted to
love anything, and I pity them as much
us l do a spoilt child. They were made
in vain.
If constitutional, love would not be
any more of a virture than the itch, but
that's just tit requires more or less
self-denial and some charity to succeed.
There is the common sense love; the
kind that, when its lavished affections
are not reciprocated, apparently,
throws up the claim and makes love to
the younger sister.
Love at first sight" is genera ally
about as long-lived as a bottle of gin
ger-pop with the cork out: 1t is all
right enough for poets, but when we
get down to common life l advise a sec
ond look.
There isa species of love that never
comes out of its hole, and is of no more
use in adversely thana pump handle in
the Sahara Desert. For relieving the
pain of the unfortunate it is about as
much account as a weak poultice.
Transient love. when the object of ad
Grafton is away, is like a bottle of co
logne water-pull the cork and in q few
days the best part Of it is gone. Such
natures love for the time being Just a,
pullet hens lay small e~ggs-because
they can't help it.
Young love lives ct least twenty-foul
months each year; but as it is natura
for ngp people, if the object is worthy
of love, loving it good deal won't hurt
either of them, for in youth love is gen.
orally as harmless as spruce gum. ant
has no more care for the future than
last years grasshopper. And never
yet knew young lovers to care for t1t
substantials of life. BQnbons ane
oranges are generally good enough fol
them. The pork and beans of every
day life knocks all the romance out O
the affair. Chicago Ledger.