Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-06-17
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Thoughts Upon the Subject in Mis-, tleyeMud's
Bocok of Essays.

Thoughts Upon the subject in Mis-, tleyelRud's
Boook OF Essays.
The ingenious editor of a New York
paper that is removed fer its political alb
CREATIONS asNored over Miss CIeveland's
book of essays and from ii collected the
following extracts
Aristotle said: Whoever Is delighted
with solitude is either a wild beast or a
god Sv have in us a good deal of each,
but yet we are neither, and alone could
neyes suffice US. The human soul was
not made TO content itself. 1t was made
TO spin over"
Such is the reciprocity of hearts! So
souls wander in search of each otherl So
many a royal heart languishes in exile,
till beneath its prison bars love stands
any sings its own familiar and enchant-
ing song!'
There is love, and, but the rational.
lasting love must admit, at least, if not
demand, for its persistence. some real
acquaintauceship. TO all love that right
ly eliminates in marriage thereis doubt
less, an irrational phase, a normal abuor-
mallty that may or may not outlast the
honeymoon and then gives place TO
something better, Indeed, the condi-
tions of concrete altruistic do not demand
the conditions of courtship or of mar
riage"
In the fresh young y ears Of our lives
there is facility of feeling. a reckless
expenditure of love"
1T may be easier for woman 20 be
heye in somebody else than for man TO
do SO. Men, as a rule, are very much oc-
coupled in themselves. Woman is con
fessedly altruistic. But this faith al
though not inconsistent with the estate
of holy mwtrimony. is yet not depend
ent upon that estate
"a firt is the most harmless person in
the world. A genuine Irritation is the
rairost bargain possible nothing for
nothing. II one gets hurt he RECEIVERS
Immediately for hirts are ethereal crea-
lures; you can walk through them and
not know there is anything there. Tits
all matter of tenuous reciprocity"
More than one woman goes To the
making of one man, 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 sometimes she count
eracts it."
when Ayesha, the beautiful girl. the
pet child wife of Mohammeds old age,
arrogant with the arrogance of beauty
and favorite, attempted to rally her
now illustrious and powerful husband up.
ON 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 place .
Mohammed replied with an efusion of
honest gratitude; No, by Allah. There
never can be q better She believed in
me when men disposed me-
The woman soul, when it sets itself 90
come 10 the rescue ia church, state, 500
ciety, family will subordinate all other
things
The energy and devotion and crcdu-
lity and consistency and jealousy and
consuming passion and triumphant wor
ship that 20 into womau's love for one
man make it the thing ITSELF I'm con.
junction with the above appears the fol-
lowing from the presidents flst annual
message to congress; "rhe fathers OF
our families are the best citizens. Wife
and childsen are the sources of patriotism
and parental affection begets devotion 90
the bountry.