Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-02-25
WHEN A WOMAN LOVES,
What One Man Thinks He Knows About
the Infinite and UnknowAb2s.

the Infinite and Unknowabls.
From the London World
When a woman loves severely she begins to
be unlovable. For she begins to be unreasona-
bic, and, for her great loves sake, to do her
! best to make miserable the all too fortunate
winner OF her affections She insists upon ac-
cusinS him of virtues which he knows are not
included in his character. and taxing him with
failiugs of which he is just as completely inno-
cent, and with that intolerable iteration which
is supposed by women to be some sort of argu-
ment.
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 al
ready. He may be as faithful IA a muliet (''for
cnaste love the mullet hath no peer bat she
will worry him by the assiduity Of her Rus-
plclons and her consequent lamentations out of
the secure highway of connubial affection into
the hazardous bypaths that lead past other
mems orchards to the Tom Tiddler's ground Of
the divorce court. Simply because she loves
hlil so-and she pleads no other excuse when
on occasion he attempts a reasonable discussion
OF their misunderstanding will make his
bad seem good to him and make his good become
bad, till the seven devils take possession OF him.
and, like one of the bedeviled swine Of Gadara
he PUSHES violently down a steep place into the
sea. She has wicked intentions whatever
On the contrary. her intentions all detest-
ably good. And when the man rakes bis mind
for some reason for his own msdemea nors he
can remember nothing better than that she
drove him to it," Which is poor excuse
vet true enough. So gardeners by frequent
little pinchings abort the upright growth of
trees into lateral obliquities.
There are very many men deplorably
human that to keep on accusing them Of an
0tense Is sufficient to make them commit ii.
They will in time live down to anv moral stand
ard that may be fixed for them by women the
women who love them. and, like the oysters.
alternately tickled and irritated 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 a time. for the time
she loves him. and being unable to absorb all
her owa unhappiress she persists in Offering
him half Of IT. Because she is SO insanely ieal-
Gus of his time and his society she will 'for the
sweet love she had OF him." waste the one and
try 20 engross the other until she tormeuts him
IRON iGnpceuce into artItice and from article
into revolt; and so III the sad end of it she can
say. Il knew i was right all the time" Does
the discovery break her heart? Not bit OF it.
Women who love at this high pressure do not
| break their hearts. They start-after a pause
to repair damages and TO MAKE a collection. as
II were. Of reighbOriy Notwithstanding
again somebody el,n. Such women IN the ex-
tremlty OF their affection FOR him. will throw
-'-4"' Ai hlii' liCci VIII poison MIN win
papers-trurder him. co it ia not good
FOR a woman to love severely; neither good for
him nor for her. The sensible man. when he
sees 1t coming, VIII pat up the hurricane
shutter. 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. Unless he be q sasnander
| rs 10 which. by the way. tho anc;ents were
divided III opinion. some averring that he ate
the fire up. the rest that he was so cold that he
put the Ere out. Either of which procedures
was sufficient to meet the circumstances
The moral of all which is that if YOU think n
woman Is going To love you too much, break it
of at once and exchange into n West India
regiment. IL Won wish to love and be loved in
perfect happiness, never question each other 8
! fidelity. So mutual honor will become o sacra-
ment in your heart of hearts,