Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1886-06-17
ALL ABOUT LOVE.
Thoughts Upon the Subject in Miss Cleveland
BoOob of Essays

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Thoughts Upon the Subject in Miss Cleveland's
Book of Essays.
The ingenious editor of New York
| paper that is removed for its political alb
CREATIONS has pored over Miss Cleveland's
! book of essays and from it collected the
following extracts:
Aristotle said: whoever Is delighted
with solitude is either wild beast or a
god We have in US a good deal of each,
but yet we are neither, and alone could
neves suffice US. The human soul was
not made to content itself. 1t was made
to spill over"
''Such is the reciprocity of hearts! So
souls wander in search of each other! So
many a royal heart languishes in exile.
till beneath its prison bars love stands
and sings its own familiar and enchant-
ing song!''
There is love, and, hut the rational,
lasting love must admit, at least, if not
demand, for its persistence, some re al
cqualntanceship. TO all love that right
~ eliminates in marriage there is, dou bt-
less, an Irrational phase, a normal abnor-
mallty that may or may not outlast the
honeymoon and then gives place to
something better. Indeed, the condi-
lions of concrete altruistic do not demand
the conditions of courtship or of mar
rage"
In the fresh young y ears of our li1 es
there is a facility of feeling, a reckless
expenditure of love-
1T may be easier for woman to be-
lleve in somebody else than for a 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 tirt is the most harmless person in
the world. A genuine Irritation is the
falrest bargain possible nothing for
nothing. Ii one gets hurt he RECEIVERS
lmmediately-fOr firts are ethereal crea-
lures; you can walk through them and
not know there is anything there. It is
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 MOhammed's old age,
arrogant with the arrogance of beauty
and favorite, attempted to rally her
now lllustriOus 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 better in her placer
Mohammed replied; with an effusion of
honest gratitude: No, by Allah! There
never can be better. She believed in
me when men disposed me-
The wOman-sOul, when it sets itself to
come to the rescue-in church, state, So
clety, family-will subordinate all other
things"
''The energy and devotion and credu-
lily and consistency and jealousy and
consuming passion and triumphant wor-
ship that go into woman's love for one
man make it the thing itself" In con-
junction with the above appears the fol-
lowing from the presidents fist annual
message to congress: 'The fathers of
our families are the best citizens. Wife
and childsen are the sources of patriotism
and parental affection begets devotion to
the bOuntry.