The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-02-12

their love: know naturally lazy and
slightly dingy boy who endured nice
clean collar every day, and IL cut
his neck, and his soul abhorred
it, for he told me 90; and
he spent from seventy-6ve to ninety min
he loved, and he knew he could dress in
four minutes and . quarter, for he had
done 1t often. Love was great beauti6er.
In this case must admit that the lover
suffered moro than We outsiders. except
that he became irritable in his cleanliness.
real and sometimes uncomfortably practi-
cal. II is very beautiful. and lovers make
pretty sight. What / protest it, that all
creatures should be lovers-or none. It is
the half-and-half state Of the world which
u irksome. LILLIAN QuILLE1 Couch.
Love, no doubt. is . subject Of popular
interest, but man is always staggered to
find his sister holding an opinion upon it.
If remember rightly, in the days when
Lillian CUTLER Couch (then aged y did me
the honor of playing Juliet to my Romeo.
the interest was mainly acrobatic, Romeo
descending the gardeners ladder head
foremost, while Juliet tilted her body ~
far over the nursery window sill ~ she
could manage without breaking her neck.
We ''cut" the love speeches. Two years
later. indeed, my sister schemed to marry
me to our common governess. There was
no love on my side; 50 she turned over the
prayer-book, hoping to find IA man may
not marry his governess" in the
table Of forbidden degrees. Such
prohibition (she we'll knew
native spirit Of disobedince. But am
convinced that even then the nature Of
true affection did not enter into her cal
culations. She merely counted on my
martial influence to end or mend the
French irregular verbs. I am delighted
that, in these later days, she sees love to
want = definition. Popular custom: s Be-
slows the name Of Love on green sick.
ness which is in fact part of Natures
wise economy. l will expOund. Almost
all young men, say between the ages Of
- and -. incline to consume much meat
and do next to no work. Were there no
corrective it is clear that in few years the
face OF the earth would be eaten bare as
by locusts. But at this season Ma
turs by the simplest stroke-the flush
Of commonplace cheek, the warm
touch OF commonplace hand-in Q
twinkling redresses the balance. Forth
with the ideal devOurer of crops and herbs
not only loses his appetite. but. arising.
fly and the earth laughs with harvest.
Thereon he mops his steaming brow, be-
DECKS him with bunch of white ribbons,
and joys jovially to church arm in arm
with the pretty cause of all this beneticent
disturbance. And the spectacle 10 mighty
taking and commentaries; but you'll ex-
cuse me for holding that it is not love. It
bears about the same relation to love that
bumble-puppy bears to good whist. Among
the eccentricities that make up the aver.
age man find mono more diverting than
his complacent belief that he is. or has
been. or will certainly some day be. in
love. As matter of fact, the capacity to
love belongs to one man or woman in ten
thousand. Listen to- Matthew Arnold:
But in the world learnt, what there
Thou witt too surely one day prove.
That will, that energy, though rare
Are yet far, far less rare than love
I 60 farther and believe it rarer than
genius. Indeed. the capacity to love 10 .
specialized form of genius. You under
stand that I am not commencing It. lts
possessors are often disreputable and al-
most always unhappy. Their recompense
is that they, and they only, have seen the
splendors of the passion, and vibrated to
the shaking inner music of the sheepboy's
pipe. T. QuILLER Couch.