The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1893-03-30
Bah DISCGURSES ON LOVE.
She Thinks II Must Be Chained With a
Wedding Ring to Be True.
Incidentally She shows Her Ex-
IRENE Contempt for the so-CaiIed
Christian science, una says
that MAN 10 FickIe.

Reversing the speech that made Adam
famous, want to say that it was a mai
who tempted me--to rush in to defent
mankind. l am not sorry that | did it
for it has proven to me what q lot o
friends have, and it has also shown t,
me how little one cares for an enemy
when the account can be balanced. Blu
this time it is woman who is tempting
me. She has written to me the most de
lightfully persuasive letters, trying to in
duce me to say something about love
that is, to give my opinion about it.
should personally have yielded to her
and she would have had little book O
her own, with my compliments, bu
when another woman, who says she is &
Christian scientist, says that am afraid
to say what think, rush where angel:
| and politicians fear to--into print.
The woman who believes in Christian
science shows how little she knows, to
begin with, because the very name
Christian Science" is a bull that does
not belong to Ireland. Christianity must
have faith for its foundation, and science
demands proof, and the combination oil
the two words is idiotic. From the stand.
point of Christianity she wants TO be all
things to all men, and, from her scientific
outlook, she wants to put the science oil
medicine entirely out of the field. Love
will do great deal but love, unbacked
by medicine, won't take me through an
attack of pneumonia, or set my fox ter.
rier's broken leg. What would that fox
terrier think OF me ii | should telegraph
to Christian scientist to pray for his
| leg, and then let him howl with pain all
night, while she was getting her mind
firmly on him? Bosh That part OF il
is all nonsense. Give us all the Christi.
anity possible-the world needs it. When
it means love, kindness, consideration
patience and charity, but don't try to
mix Christianity and science. They jar.
But to return to love. The tendency OF
every ism is to have queer notions about
love, and to make very glib speeches
about the beauty of free love, meaning by
that, not the love which is given without
money and without price, but the love
which has become so coarse and materi.
allied that it lacks soul, and that the
mere outer shell OF the woman is to be
tossed around and belong first to one
man and then to another. That's pretty
plain speaking, but it is the truth. And
it is what all this nonsense about affinities
and love that is greater than mere con.
ventionalties and love that doesn't rec.
ognize the bonds of the world means.
No matter how pretty, no matter how
clever it may be put, it is always the
same old sorrowful, dreadful story.
AN ESSAY OF LOVE.
Would you chain love? asks my writer
Yes, would. As far back as we can
find picture of love, he only hovers
round like butterfly, until he is really
caught, and Then he is chained, perhaps
with roses, perhaps with ribbons, but
always in some way. Now, the way to
chain love to-day is with a wedding ring
Then he is yours, and all you have to do
is to keep the naughty dimpled boy, and
see that from boy love, be grows into q
great manly one, made beautiful by per.
feet affection, and ready to put about you
the protecting arms of sympathy and
possession. That's what believe in do.
ing with love. And it is treatment the
little rogue likes. Every now and Their
my heart aches for some woman who
hasen't realized this, who, because she
was imaginative, because she was believ-
ing, and because she was ignorant, list.
ened to all this fiddle-faddle about love
making its own laws, the desirability Of
doing away with the marriage law, and
the beautiful heart unions that would re-
| suit. Well, she forms heart union, SO
called, and after little while-siter the
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wondering why, if the man loves her, it
wouldn't be just as well for him to rec.
ognize conventionalities, and marry her
because she doesn't like to have her
women friends not speak to her; she
doesn't like to feel she is ostracised and
even though he don't believe in it, il
he loved her, she doesn't see why, simply
because it is the custom, he won't make
it all right for her.
is MAN A SINCERE LovEMAKRR?
He never does make it all right. Man
is the most conventional creature living
He loved her well enough to want to get
possession of her, and he was willing to
use any arguments for this purpose, but,
having gained what he wished, he doesn't
love her we'll enough to be considerate Of
her, or not to weary of her. And she
poor soul! Well, sometimes she antici
pates the day of parting, and says good
by to him. know one woman who SAID
it Just before she fell into the river; anC
who knows whether that was accident Of
intent? Sometimes the treatment shC
has received from the world and the mar
drives her to dreadful trade; and where
she used to talk of love, she now talk,
OF money; but much oftener, and thi:
is greatly to the credit of women, she
is driven to caring for herself, and get