Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-07-19
ALL ABOUT LOVE.

The ingenious editor of Il New York
| paper that is renowned for its political
alterations has pored over Miss Cleve.
| lands book of essays and from it col
lected the following extracts:
Aristotle said: Whoever is delighted
with solitude is either wild beast or a
| god. We have in us Il good deal OF
each, but yet we are neither, and self
alone could never suffice us. The hui
man soul was not made to contain it.
self 1t was made to spill over, and il
does and will spill over"
''Such is the reciprocity of hearts! Sc
souls wander in search of each other
So many royal heart languishes in ex.
lie, till beneath its prison bars love
stands and sings its own familiar and
enchanting songr'
There is love. and love, but the ra-
tional, lasting love must admit, at least.
if not demand, for its persistence, some
real acquaintanceship. To all love that
rightly eliminates in marriage there is,
doubtless, an irrational phase, normal
abnormality that may or may not out
last the honeymoon, and then gives
place to something better. Indeed, the
conditions of concrete altruistic faith
do not command the conditions of
courtship or of marriage"
SIN the fresh young years of our lives
there is facility of feeling, readiness
of devotion, a reckless expenditure of
love"
at may be easier for woman to be-
lieve in somebody else than for 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 the estate of holy matrimony, is
yet not dependent upon that estate"
"a fiirt is the most harmless person
in the world. A genuine Irritation is the
fairest bargain possible-nothing for
nothing, nihtI er ntht!o. If one gets
hurt he RECEIVERS immediately-for fiirts
are ethereal creatures; you can walk
through them and not know there is
anything there. 1t is all 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 it."
"When Ayesha, the beautiful girl,
the pet child wife of Mohammed's old
age, arrogant with the arrogance of
beauty and favorite. attempted to raj
ly her now illustrious and powerful hus-
band upon his loyal love for his
first wife, and said to him: Was she
not old? and has not God given you a
better in her placer Mohammed re-
piled. with an effusion of honest graft
tude: No, by Allah! There never can
be a better. She believed in me when
men despised me.
THE woman-soul, when it sets itself
to come to the rescue-in church, state.
society, family-will subordinate all
other things"
THE energy and devotion and Gre
dulity and consistency and jealousy and
consuming passion and triumphant
worship that 60 into Il woman's love
for man make it the thing itself In
conjunction with the above appears the
following from the presidents first an
nual message to congress: The fathers
of our families are the best citizens of
the republic. Wife and children are the
sources of patriotism, and coniugal and
parental affection beget devotion to the
country"