Connecticut western news., 1893-03-02
WHEN A WOMAN LOVES.

what One Man Thinks He Knows About
 the Infinite and Unkpowabie. faa
 When woman loves severely, she be-
 gins to be unlovable, for she begins to
 be unreasonable and for her great loves
 sake to do her best to make miserable
 the all too fortunate winner of her affec- tions. She insists upon accusing him of virtues which he knows are not included in his character and taxing him with failings of which ho Is just as completely innocent and with that iatolerable itera- tion 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 a mullet ("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 oonnubial affec- ton into the hazardous bypaths that lead past other mons orchards to the Tom Tiddlers "Ground of the Divorce Court" Simply because she loves him so-and she pleads no other excuse when
 on occasion Inc attempts a reasonable dis cussion of their misunderstanding
 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 a steep place into the sea.
 She has no wicked intentions what
 ever On the contrary, her intentions
 are all detestably good. And when the man ralsos his mind for some reason for his own misdemeanors he can remember nothing better than that ''she drove him to it." which is a poor excuse, yet true
 enough. So gardeners by frequent little pinchings abort tho upright growth of trees into lateral obliquities.
 There are very many men so deplor- ably human that to keep on accusing
 them of an offense is sufficient to make them commit it. They will in time live down to any moral standard that may be fixed for them by women, the women
 who lovo them, and, like the oysters. al- ternately tickled and irritatcd by the grains of sand which the Chinese drop
 into them, will grow to forget their natures altogether. No woman can be quite so miserable as she who loves only one man at time. For the time she loves him, and being un- able to absorb all her own unhappiness
 she persists in offering him half of it
 Because she is 30 insanely jealous of his time and his society she will, flor the
 sweet love she had of him." waste the one and try to engross the other until
 she torments him from innocence into
 artifice, and from artifice into revolt, and so in the sad end of it she can say,
 "I knew was right all tho time" Does the discovery break her heartl Not
 bit ot it. Women who love at this high
 pressure do not break their hearts. They
 start-after pause to repair damages
 and to make a collection, as 1t were, of
 neighborly sympathies - loving again
 somebody else.
 Such women, in the extremity of their
 affection for him, will throw vitriol in
 a mans face, will poison him with fly
 papers-murder him. So it is not good for woman to love seyerely---neither
 good for him nor for her. The sensible
 man, when he sees it coming, will put
 up the hurricane shutters, back engines,
 skid the wheels, throw salt in the fire
 do anything, in fact, that will meet the
 emergency, slacken speed or reduce the
 temperature. World.