The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-10-26
Especial CORRESPONDENCE of SUNDAY HERALD
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Especial CORRESPONDENCE of SUNDAY HERALD.l
New YORK, October "a.
Marriage, love, improved underwear, and
meteors are what people talk about. II talking
OF love makes love- there will be about five hun
dred thousand lovers in New York City and
proper number of marriages, so that next year
will really be the time to have the census taken.
hare given my opinion on marriage, but lately
have been exploiting myself on the subject of
love. \ man asks, 'What is love ~ the man at
whom l hurled my opinions being extremely
cynical. Said he, "What is love 1t is sell
fish desire on the part of one person to monopo-
lize all the time, attention, and charms OF an
other. 1t is spoken of as being everlasting, and
yet men jest about their summer and winter
girls, and think Presidential election, a rise or
fall in stocks, more interesting than any love
that was ever dreamed Of. Some fool of man
commits suicide-says he does it for love- Some
fool of a woman runs in debt buying new frocks
spends her time before the looking glass, and
all because she wishes to make man love her
Bother love- said he; 'give me comradeship
l want to feel that l can be pleasant with a
woman, that We can trot around together, that
we can enjoy the same things, discuss the same
questions, without all this fo-de-rol nonsense
called love. AS for the love described by erotic
poets, you ought to drop the and ic off the
adjective, and you would have the proper name
for it,
AND PRETTY "BAB' TELLS HIM
"Ho, ho!" said l, ''my master So YOU
want companionship, do you, and you think
love of little worth? Oh, what fools these men
be, especially these intellectual, nineteenth-cen-
tury men My dear sir, there never lived man
in this world who didn't want a woman to love
him He talks about comradeship and affec-
ton. What he wants is love and devotion. He
thinks that everything else in life-protoplasms
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 unselfishness. There have
been the giving up of great hopes, and some
times the absolute killing of ones hearts desire
for the sake of dear love. The world could no
more 60 on without love than it could without
sunshine. You can talk about patriotism YOU
can rest on your mentality, but you will never
find that either of these will give YOU the same
pleasure, nor anywheres near it, that comes
when you have got your arm around small
woman and you look down into eyes that turn
to you with DEVOTION.
''IT Is woMAN's WHOLE ExIsTENCE.m
AS for the love written about by the ladies who
like very intense color on their books | have
nothing to say; it is much more written about
than lived, and though many sins have been
committed in the name Of love there have been
lot more of good deeds done, and on the great
recording book the good will blot out the bad
A woman as naturally needs love as she does
bread and butter, and when she don't get it her
lie is barren one, without any of the sweet
flowers or rich fruit with which it should be gar
nished. Sentimental? Perhaps so. But have
great number of noble predecessors, and put
myself down as believing in love first, foremost,
and always: and though | don't like a garrett be-
cause I'm not strong enough to climb many
stairs, still I'd rather be there and have the love
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
downright fibber Women have stuck by men
through the direst sort of poverty, have tried to
make things better, and have usually succeeded
If you will just remember, you never heard of a
man striving to make both ends meet-it's al
ways 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
THE REFORMED UNDERCLOTHEs QUESTION
Mycynic found himself little upset after this
TRADE, and so he thought he would do as men
always do when they are worsted; l. e.. change
the subject by asking me, after the form of an
interviewer, what thought of the common-sense
underwear? | said didn't think it was worthy
of consideration, and that fully understood the
feelings Of the old lady who came TO town and
was entertained by her daughter by being taken
TO hear woman lecture on reformed under
clothes in the afternoon and to Bob Ingersoll at
night. When they got home the daughter said,
swell, mother, what do you think oft ?" "Good
gracious me" answered the old lady, ''what is
the world coming To-? No hell, no chemise."
That's the way ! feel on the reformed under
clothes question. ! may mention, though, that
the period when the chemise first made its ap-
pearance was about the most immoral known,
and so rare were the fulllength chemise that
people had Sits cut in their beautiful skirts just
onthehips, and the chemse was dragged through
TO show that it extended below the waist, and
that is what the artistic pulling through of silk
or satin had its origin in.
sUsPENDERs OF EMEEALDs AND DIAMONDS.
The last thing in the jewelry line is most
marvellous. 1t consists Of pair of white silk
susDendprs To hold M the EtOcIyng the oIasns