St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-11-14

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6A 81 lately l have
mjM1 been exploiting
NW myself on the
& ~ subject of love.
WH the nan q It
" G whom | hurled
N\~ my ions
"A being extreme
ly cynical. SAID he: What is love-.
1t is a selfish desire Oh the part of Il
person to %monopoliZe all the time, at
tentiun and charms of another. II is
spoken of as being everlasting. and yet
nen jest about their summer and
winter girls. and think a presidential
election, 4 rise or fall in stocks, more
interesting than any love that Was
ever dreamed of. Some fool of a man
commits suicide, says he does it for
love. Some fool of Il Woman runs in
iebt buying new frockS. spends her time
before a i0oking-glaSS and all bccauSeS she
wishes 10 make Il man love her. Bother
love" said he, give me ~comradcShip.
| want to feel that | can be pleasant
with 4 woman, that we can trot around
together, that we can enjoy the same
without all this fol-de-rol nonsense
called love. As for the love described
by erotic poets, you ought to drop the
Z and ic off the adjective, and you
would have the proper name for it"
"Ho, ho".' said l, my master. So
you want cOm%panionshlp. do YOU, and
you think love of little WORTH: Oh,
what fools these men be, especially
these intellectual, nineteenth century
men! My dear sir, there never lived a
MAJ in this world who didn't want q
woman to love him. He talksabOut COM
an.IoclfA ,,l - {FN.ts,, kNlA% 800 = !,
love and devotion. He thinks that every
thing else IN life-pr0tOplasmS and
meteOrS and all the rest of the nonsense
should come before love. Where in
the world have his eyes been? 1t is true
that crimes have been committed for
love, but oh, so many good things have
been done for its sake. There have
been self=denial and uhselfishness.
There have been the giving up of great
hopes, and sometimes the absolute kill
ing of ones hearts desire for the sake
of dear love. The world could no more
go on without love thaD it could without
sunshine. You a talk about patriot
lsm, you can rest Oh your. mentality.
but you Will never find that either of
these will give you the same pleasure,
nor anywhere near II, that comes when
Tou have got your arm around q small
woman and you look down into eyes
hat turn to you with devotion.
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"As for the love written about by the
ladies vino like very intense color on
her books. Ilhaye nothing further to
say; 1t Is much more written about than
lived, and though many sins have been
committed in the name of love, there
have been a lot more of good deeds
Zone; and, on the great recording book,
he good will blot out the bad. A
woman as naturally needs love as she
does bread and butter. and when she
doesn't get it her life is a barren one.
without any of the sweet flowers or rich
fruit with which 1t should be garnished.
sentimental? Perhaps so. But l have
a great number of noble predecessors,
owe first, foremost and always; and,
though | don't like a garnet, be-
cause l am not strong enough to
slimD many stairs, still, I'd
Fatner be there and have the
iOva than reside in the finest second
story front, with real lace curtains and
indifference. Men like to say that when
poverty comes love disappears: now
every man who says that knows that he
is q downright fiber. Women have
stuck by men through the direst sort Of
poverty, have tried TO make things bet
ter, and have usually succeeded. If you
Will just remember. you eve heard of
q man striving to make both ends meets
it is always a woman. My gentle
friend, if you can get the love Of a good
woman, you have got the best thing In
life, and, from the king on his throne to
the peasant working in the field, there
is nothing that surpaSseS it, and the
beautiful part of it all is that king and
peasant alike may have it and be
happy"
My cynic found himself a little upset
after this TRADE.
Very smart luncheons this winter
will be, if the London vogue is fol-
lowed, all white ones; that IS to say,
the table will have a white cloth beauti-
fully hemstlched, the service will be the
cleareSt white china known, silver and
glass will be literally used, and the
only flowers permissible will be the
white ones tied with pale green ribbons.
tlOWerS never went out of fashion, but
they are being used now more than
ever before.
Instead of the huge corsage bouquets
along.stemmed rose or a posy made of
carnations, q very fine orchid or a bunch
Df vl0ietS is counted the last touch to
Ri evening costume. This makes it
possible for a man to do courteous
thing i'll the way of sending the woman
he likes some flowers without his hay
Ing TO 20 into bankruptcy at the end
Of the season. Men who estimate things
by quantity rather than quality gave
full range to their vulgarIty when they
sent a woman a corSage bouquet nearly
as big as herself, but nowadays to
cheese a single fine flower that comes
from the smarteSt florist. and to send it
and ask as q courtesy that it NAV be
worn is undoubtedly the correct thing
and certainly the more sentimental.
Apropos OF sentimentality, the youpg
woman who sings inclines rather to the
ballads of ten yerrS ago than to the wild
songs that have been her favoritc for
some time past. In preference TO
"RaZZle-dazZi,," or the announcement
that Jones, he pays the freight" she is
Warbling in a tender tone the exquisite
'Hood-bye' of Tosti; that dear old
song, She Wore a Wreath of Roses"
and that most lovely of ballads. s.SaIlv
in Our Alley" She has gained by
adopting this role, for in a dim relig-
ious light, with an accompaniment that
sounds like the music of sweet waters.
and a voice that tells of love and ioy and
devotion, even the nineteenth century
Young man can be overcome. He often
shows q slight inclination to weep.
Sometimes this is the result of the
words. sometimes of the fact that he
has had q little too much dinner. and
that digestion and appreciation of music
are difficult as a combination. BAB.