The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1888-01-15

. anu ''ui "a - iuNOIhD /! Win / I'VE
the m Jrc brill ant diamond which
wounds wh'le IT delights
Narrow commonplace souls may
live and die without knowing the
luxury Of such al holy affection, but
no truly grcst or gifted man ever yet
existed without at least one sympa-
thetic friend. 1t il the most health
ful incentive to genius, the sweetest
adjunct to success, the dearest com
fort in announcement. In it. truest
tendcrcst sense it lies indeed at the
base of all genuine affection, how
ever called and is the corner stone OF
social prosperity and Individual hap
piness AS lovers, the honors be-
tween the sexes are pretty evenly
divided For every Romeo there Is
Juliet, for every Abclard ali Ilcl)ise
Yet here we behold the marvel of
mans gallantry aided and abctted by
mans vanity, graci ,u-ly conceding
the palm and voluut,rily proc aiming
woman more faithful, more teuder,
most loving.
This is simply fond illusion
/ Women are less faithful than men
| Though habits of education, the pow
er OF circumstance aud pressure of ex-
/ ternal opinion, united with innate
| purity and "A certain noble faith In the
ultimate righting of all wrong, often
/ hOlds woman faithful to an unworthy
object, where he would free hlns n
" IN one bold il'ng, and possibly be
righl in ii ling so.
1t Is rs lovers, most OF all that the
attitude of the wona decides the at
! titude of the man. She whom he
loves fiAcs his dcsliuy. Who was t.
said "shoW me the drcsses a woman
has worn and will write you her
history?' Show me the woman man
| truly loves and will forecast his tu-
ture possibilities. NO mater how
strong he -, how brave or manly.
/ purcr will be his passion aud the
mightier the 'vcr which upheavos
| hi. life, speak not hure of
th passing tancics, which IN " a7sail
cv IL the greatest natures. We have
tho t'et mony OF Sol )mon that there
dis II time for love" and it comes but
once, though daisies may flourish
first on soil where the acorn is a.
ready budding tor an OAK. The shal-
low of brain may scoll, the shall Dwer
( OF heart may smile, but every nature
worthy of the God who created it,
will comprehend me when say
there ls II love WdiCh comes aud goes
not away. That which Is bora OF the
soul iuh rits tho roynl doom of etorni-
t.; and to each soul, not altogether
brutaIIZed, there comes Mt last IT,
hour OF destiny of heaven or he'll.
Wh ch shnll it b.: ASK this OF the
woman VIII I'm J on love.
The titude of The woman decides
the attitude of the man II only sho
be pure and true, all else Is insiguiii-
cant.-- OF til, moment whcth " she
care tor him or not--only her nature
must be the full and perfect compile
mcnt OF his. II she be shallow, trlvo-
Gus, vain. weak or false, here at the
turning point OF life, her stamp is set
upon ms soul and he is uplflod or
degraded forever.
Fickle In fancy y,unstib in ion we
are stcadt st and true when once the
nealt is truly touched, While women,
more deeply tender, are loss ardent
and less tenacious, as u rue.
There are women gitled with
genius for Dying-like Owen Mere
dith's Iucille-but though not I'M
possible they are rare. Unab o to
make voluntary choice "a mon do,
nature has endowed woman with
| plastic p over { t tranef fern the alice
lions, which becomes q genuine bles-
sing although ii robs her of that All
cicnt aud exalted idealism which nc
credits her with superior and Y, luu-
tary Consttncy. However, God
| u0hn hnr fhnIIpb EHn hut
atterthought, aud not the result OF an
original plan--and we must coucedc
that He knew what He was about.
The most serious difficulty in the
path OF men AS lovers, cs in what
may designate n liborsl comprcheu-
sivcncss of nil,ction. No man is born
~ monogsmist, though love promptly
transforms him into one. PreyIous
to its coming, how ever, he seems
gifted with hospitablc desire to
take to his bosom every nttrac Two
woman he may encounter from
lhc crtdl to the grave. And this ar-
plies non only to the "mqshcr," nat
uoble product of the '"rt cnth cen
tury, but to those posse stag the ma
rurc and worthy tho name of men,
il is the lscullue spark which con-
stilu cS tnc explosive iua!itE OF pa
tonic dtn4 ers. and the ignis tatuu1
which hcguiles many wretch into
the Smorass of uncongcnia! ma rimo-
ny. "Marriagcs are made III heaven
they say poor oil heaven. But if
he mistake his own emotion, II W can
he expect heaven OF the woman TO be
keener Witted; For, just here, female
hstuteucss is forever at iaul'. Better
hope t. restore wholesale vision to
an entire bliud asylum than cnl ghten
one woman. blinded by her own pas
sion to her lovers halt-heartcd devo-
ton. TO the honor OF mon be il said,
however, that once married, however
unheppiy, they are wiling to abb ie
py the inevitable and bear thc,yoke in
silence. Or should nature come to
the rescue. they cheeriu!ly purchase
the handsomest coilil In town, man
age TO look nstonishingly and dis