The sun., 1893-02-05
WHEN A WOMAN LOVES.
what One Man Thinks He Knows About
the Innnite and Unknowable.

what One Man Thinks IIe Knows About
the Innnite and Unknowable.
Prom the L,ndon World
When woman loves severely she begins to
be unlovable. For ahe begins to be unreason-
able. and. for her great loves sake. to do her
best to mako miserable the all too fortunate
winner Of her affections She insists upon ac-
cusing him OF virtues which he knows are not
included In his character. and taxing him with
failincs Of which he is just as completely In
nocent. and with that intolerable iteration
which Is supposed BY women to be some sort
Of argument.
The result Is that the man begins In time to
believe that he Is good where he is not, and to
turn bad simply because she says he Is SO
already. He may be as faithful as mullet
t"for chaste love the mullet hath no peer''.
but she will worry him by the assiduity OF her
suspicious. and her consequent lamentations.
out OF the secure highway Of connubial sffec-
tion into the hazardous bypaths that lead past
other mems orchards to the Tom Tiddler's
Ground OF the Divorce Court. Simply because
she loves him so-and she pleads no other ex-
cuse when on occasion he attempts reason
able discussion OF their Observation-Disclosures
she will make his bad seem good to him and
make his good become bad. till the seven
take possession OF him. and. like one
OF the bedeviled swine OF Gadara. he
rushes violently down q steep place into
the sea. She has no wicked Intentions
whatever. On the contrary. her intentions are
ali detestably good. And when the man rakes
his mind for some reason for his own misde-
tSsn Ere Rm 70 oRT beo IS
poor excuse: yet true enough. So gardeners
by frequent little pinchings abort the upright
There are very many men 80 deplorably
human that to Keep on accusing them Of an
9lfenes Than S ~ sa tG ton make them commit it
standard that may be fixed for them by women.
the women who love them. and. like the oys-
grains OF sand which tho Chinesa drop into
them; will grow to forget thcir natures al
No woman can be quite so miserable as she
time she loves him, and, boine unable 70 ab.
saneiy Jealous Of his time and lis society, she
w s 9te snsoss shs eas tSe G 6Se
H5tse ths a3d dnd from o. nrtlse into revolt ana
break her heart? Not a bit efi Women who
hearts. They. start-after pause to repair
Of 99sishborly ssympathesnloying again some:
OF, their affection for him: will throw
WITH yt1G1 IN mans iafs; will poison him
for woman to love severely; neither GOOD
for him nor for her. The sensible man. when
he he sees II coming. will pnt up the hurricane
salt in the fire-do anything. ID fact. that viii
meet the emergency. slacken speed or reduce
the Temperature. Unless he be o salamander
As to which. by. the way. the ancicnts were
divided In opinion, some nverrinR that he ate
the flre up. the rest that he was so cold that he
put the nre out Either Of which procedures
was sufficient to meet the circumstances.
The moral OF all which is. that II you think a
woman ia going to love Won too uOch hraoG a.
of at once and exchange into O West India
regiment. II you wish to love. and be loved.
In perfect happiness. never question each
others fidelity. So mutual honor will become
o sacrament In your heart OF hearts.