The Arkansaw traveler., 1886-03-06
FIRST LOVE, OR SAC0ND <?
BY ANNIE LAKE TOWNSEND.

Lizzie Gregory is going to be mar ned."
 "The deuce she is Against whcm1 as Munger says"
 "To a doctor of medicine, full oi blessed conditions, the world says-wont to be censoIious on such occasions"
 Alas for the bloom on the grape, for the dust on the hutterdy's wing E"
 "Why, isn't the doctor going to get the equivalent of those in sentiment 2"
 "Wsll, he isn't"
 "Does any man when he marries And does any man care that he doesn't2'
 Not oAe man in several thousand gets the first fancy of the woman he msrlies but more men than that think they do For my own part think it's jus, as well for the husband that he should not be the first love. ldealrz stion Is a very danger ous article in a rousseau and, besides, l think the reverse of La RoChefouca0ld's s epigram is the truth nine times out of ten, and that when girl loves first she loves love, and if she loves again it is only then that she loves her lover"
 Viewed in that light, then, when a young girl falls in love, as 1t is called, with an unworthy obj sct-the cads young girls generally do iall in love with,-l may say such an object is to be regarded only as a coral for her to cut her senti- mental first teeth upon. Testhing Is a bad business sometimes, mothers have told me, and some babies como through 1t very hardly"
 "Yes, but although it is difficult to say anything defi about sentimental ex- pssience, especially on the wonans side, should say, oa the whole, that 1t is bet ter for girl to fancy she loves cad, and not marry him, than ts marry him and find out to a dead certainty that she doesn't
 "Then why sigh alas over the bloom on the plum-yoHr little sentence that scsnnedf'
 Because idio6c humanity always cherishes the hopeless ideal In leve that every man shall wakeA Galahea, and af. tsr ths glamer of Aer love of lsve has disappeared bs Isved for himself. No man could cs@pass it; ws0ea say 10 man deserves 1t, bat they all dream 1t Howsver, to return to reality, 1t Is better to be loved at last than never to be loved at all, by few women, and Lzzie Greg ory is oAs Sf then."
 " Happy Is the woman without his tory. Ts0 nc bsrs5
 She had an sdd, mistaken briAging up. Her mother had marsisd uAhap- pily. She was wonan of strong will, and wAsn her fatAsg, Lizzie's grandh.her, took her hsae with her child to live with him, aftsr twelve years of misery, she vowed ts bs stronger than fate or nature and prsvsst Luie frsm marrying, not by opposing tho demands sf suitors, bat by seoing ts it that thexe were no suitors TAe gra2diather, enbitteaed by his daughters unfortunate marriage and by msAsy rsverses, agreed in Mrs Gregory s ideas ahsat Lzzis's future, and oftea preached from HaMLef scxs-' say VIC will have no moro m arTiages.'
 "They gave the child an admirable education, and when she developed a tslent for painting had her instructed at the cost of many sacrifices, .ha. she might have resources that would place her be- yond the need of the outside world. To lady who once said to Mrs Gregory, about Lzzie, you are' bringing up a charming wife for some naa,' Mrs. Greg oy calmly replied, 1 am bringing up a happy old maid
 "Since the days of oracles, ~quester- ing young people has not been fortunate method Lizzie felt csged, asd she beat against the bars, fan of unds6ned long ings for event and scope and an audience and critcisA tos her taleat In fact she moped; aAd as dreams are the conse- crased property of young mopsrs, her cherishsd dream was to have a careM as an artist. to make her talent for painting something more than an accom- plishmeat, as dilsttsntsisn is comicaliy called she wished ts % through course sf ngor ous training and measure her powers with those of accepted artists
 SAs eftsa said to her grandfather, Psass send me ts Paris to study. h a year or i've will repay 7 ,u every cent havs ever csse ysa at which he would laugh Sosdiy asA ssply:
 Why, Luis. I've just brought you home ds yea think l'n gsing ss loss you again7 What ds yea sspposs cars fer what yea csst nef wa.t ny httls girl Paint fsr ns; like svsrysAisg yss do, and perhaps tAey woalda't h Paris.
 She appealed to her mothsx with nc better success.
 @'rhs risk is too great MrA Gregory