The sun., 1893-08-13

| Aren't marriage and It's sequences practical
| Ninety nine per cent. are So
How long docs courtship last1
| Three or four months. more or less.
! And marriage?
| From one to fifty years. more or less.
Then why shouldn't they talk OF the years Of
| real. rather than the months Of ideal2
1t would frighten them away from each other.
Then married people are not altogether
wrong in saying sweethearts are silly?
Not altogether.
As the old ones crow. can't the young ones
learn?
The Potentially is present but the molina
tion is lacking.
Shouldn't they learn7
They should. perhaps. but when 1t comes to
the test. the old ones sigh and say: oh let
them dream on and be happy: they'll have
trouble enough by and by"
Would they be nearly so liable to sorrow II
they thought more OF the future2
or course not. from a rational point OF view.
Then why don't they try to see what is ahead
OF them2
fancy they don't want to see.
Going 1t blind. eh2
Exactly.
Is there no remedyI
None. human.
Any divine3
Yes. II the Lord would only mako lovers hon
est and frank with each other In every way.
Aren't they SO?
Well. hardly.
In what respect?
They deceive each other in the minor points
OF their characters: they conceal their physi-
cal. mental. or moral weaknesses: they wear
their company manners. and they are always
as nice as they know how to be.
Wouldn't it be rather embarrassing for the
youth and the maiden to exchange such close
condolences?
Possibly. but not halfiso dangerous to their
mutual happiness as to Keep them back until
they marry. whom discovery must come. and 1t
is too late to remedy the evil
Can't two people be blind to each others
faults
Yes. il all the world were blind to them at the
same time.
What has the world to do with 1t?
Everything: for each person is part Of It:
and what each is. determines to that extent
what the others must be-
Then marriage is not for two people only?
Not II they expect to live In the world OF men
and women.
How about court shpp
That is entirely for two pc eople.
Why is that?
Because it is too uncertain to be depended
upon for steady use.
1t is pleasure merely them
Yes us marriage Is business.
Then why spoil pleasure by businessp
1t Is the custom.
Do lovers love each other more than married
people do?
More in quantity. but not more In quality.
How is that?
Lovers love comes out OF Joy and the sun
shine. while married peoples love comes out
tr;aI nd fri nd IL g..
quality. not quantity. that can do that.
Don't lovers have trou bles. toop
Yes. as children do.
But there are broken hearts, aren't there?
In novels sometimes. In poetry OCCASION
ally. and in songs often.
Never in reality2
Scarcely ever an incurable case. until after
marriage.
Then there Is such thing as broken heart2
There is something that bears tho name.
Don't young people sometimes kill them
selves for lovo'
Love IL the supreme selfshness; whom that
is seriously shocked. rs sometimes happens.
the sufferer is crazed temporarily.
Isn't it permanent. ever:
Not often; you have many times heard Of a
young person rescued from watery grave.
only to marry some other young person than
the ono on whose account the watery grave
was sought.
What is said in the moonlight. then. by
young persons in an ecstatlc condition Is not
always to be relied uponl
The moon is nevor the same any two nights
In succession.
And swccheartsf
Mostly as tho moon iR
How does 1t happen they ever marry a. all
They often wonder at that themselves after
Why do lovers quarrel'
Nobody knows.
Is ii good sign!
it is a good sign OF moro OF the same sort
whom thay are lovers no longer
they they can't can't 1.-Two without each other, they
And after they marry?
,Oftontimes they cant live with eaoh other.
How Is it in fact?
Thoy arc mistaken In each instance.
There's deal of uncertainty all around then.
isn't there?
There Is. indeed.
Can 1t be avoided
Not on earth and in heaven there Is no mar
linen lovers must love as they will?
The old. old story ID ever young.
And heautiiul'
Isn't tho beautiful the good2
The good is the beautiful
Doesn't the rulo work both waysf
Ara the world loves E. lovsra
isnf't It a truthful saying.2
Possibly but tho world isn't marrying u
Isn't Isn't II, the t swoetheart time the happsst time
in our livesY
Nothing likeit.
Whyp
Ignorance Ia bliss.
Then 1t is folly to be wiser
Who are the Wiser
Ask the married people :,