The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1893-03-30

are mlsttken. Love must De chained OF
else it isn't love. It's a naughty little
boy called Desire, who isn't willing ia
have the golden circlet put about him
and it is just as well to remember that
the motto OF that same wicked little boy
is this, and the whole story is told in it
Possession is safety"
THE DANGEROUS MARRIED MAN.
Sometimes love takes another form, and
this, my dear little Southern girl, seems
to be the one in which he has come to
you. Don't trust him; he isn't love, he
is lust. He appears as Benedict, the
married man. He whispers to you OF a
marriage made in early youth, Of uncon-
genial, tiresome hours spent with his
wife; he whispers, oh, so seductively,
that he has never met a woman before
who 50 appealed to his heart and his
brain. He knows how to be patient with
you; how to say sweet nothings to you.
and he seldom makes mistakes. Socially
he is a success, and you are hattefed by
his attentions. He has more money
than the younger men, whose intentions
are more honorable, and, therefore, he
can give you more Of the pleasures OF
life. All this may be very nice, and the
heart Of Benedict, the married man, will
trot out to meet other hearts just as long
as their cases are the bodies of young and
pretty woHen, and he will be faithful just
as long as you can amuse and interest
him; but If you lose some of your charms,
if you develop few pains and aches,
just so certainly does Benedict, the mar
red man, seek for young and more
charming woman. And eventually, so
much is mankind given to observing the
proprieties that Benedict, the married
man, takes back his miserable, timeworn
heart, and lays it at the feet OF the woman
who bears his name. Usually, for only
women and God know how to forgive, she
takes ii up joyfully and welcomes it back
home, as Was the prodigal son SO long
ago.
HAS THE BEST OF IT, AFTER ALL.
My dear, the world is wicked, so they
say, but the wife has always the best OF
it. She first has the love OF the young
man. Once or twice there may come to
her the idea that her husband looks with
pleasure upon some other woman, but,
with the wisdom of the serpent, she
knows if she waits quietly he will return
to her and find her the veritable Joy for
ever, satisfied in thinking that she under
stands him and knows his ways. When
old age appears it is true that neither is n
novelty to the other; but when one Is old
one isn't seeking for new things; one
wants old friends and old loves, and there
comes at this time deal of affection be-
tween husband and wife, the result of
many years cquaintanceship, and, best
OF all, OF that strongest bond in the world
the parental one. 1t may be that about
them are their children's children it may
be that all this affection is centered on
one little grave; but it is there, and that
is the reason why, putting aside even
the moral and social obligations, the wife
has always been and always will be, pray
God, the strongest among women.
LOVE, SUNSHINE AND PEACHES.
The girl who wrote to me said she didn't
want me to preach. | wonder if have
done it. If have | am unlike most
preachers, for believe what say. Love
is said to come like thief in night.
don't believe it. l believe love, like a
perfect peach, is the result Of careful
training; of plenty OF sunshine and OF
no cold, biting frost; that it needs to be
cared for and protected alike from too
great heat, or too great cold; too many
showers or too fierce drought; but al
ways it wants care. and given this care it
will be as perfect specimen of fruit as
ever gardener dreamed Of. Neglected,
it will be tasteless, shapeless, lacking
bloom, and without the intangible some
thing that makes either love or q peach
worth having. My dear girl, you are
quite too anxious for love, and you are
not willing to test it, and see il it is
really love, and if it is worth the train
ing. You are like most OF the dear, de-
lightful women OF our own country; you
are. in too much OF hurry. Somebody
said that womankipd will never have
reached the great art of repose until she
is willing to appear ignorant of many
things she really knows. .Voltaire said
the wisest woman he ever met told him
there were three follies Of man which al
ways amused her: The first was climbing
trees to shake the fruit down, when, If
they waited long enough, the fruit would
fall itself; the second was going to war
to kill one another, when, If they only
waited, they would die naturally; the
third was that they should run after
women, when, if they refrsined from it,
the women would run after them! Now,
if you will just reverse that last, we can
all agree with Voltaire about that
woman's wisdom.
Cntarrh Cannot be Cured