Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1893-03-02
WHEN A WOMAN LOVES.
What One Man Thinks He Knows About
tive Infinite and Cnknowable.

| What One Man Thinks He Knows About
the Infinite and Urknowable.
When woman loves severely, she be.
gins to be unlovable. for she begins tc
be unreasonable and for her great loves
sake to do her best to make miserabl'
the all too fortunate winner of her affec
tions. She insists upon accusing hinl o.
virtues which he knows are not inclntiee
in his character and taxing him "::ai
failings Of which he is just as com?.ecc!.
innocent and with that intolera ie tier,
ton which is supposed by women 10 J..
some sort of argument.
The result is that the man begins /:
time to believe that he is good where /.
| is not and to turn bad simply becars;
she says he is so already. He may be a,
faithful as mullet (''for chaste love tils
mullet hath no peer, but she Will wovf-,
him by the assiduity of her snspicio;@
and her consequent lamentations out q
the secure highway of connubial a..cc
tion into the hazardous bypaths TIN
lead past other mems orchards to Glt
IOUl 1lOQleI , 0lOuiiO ": tiIc ~ -
Court" Simply because she loves =:
so-and she pleads no other excuse Va
on occasion he attempts reason;l,: -.
cussion of their misunderstood"
she will make his bad seem Gc.a tai :.
and make his good become h.p -, Z
seven take possession of him, i.:l,i -,
one of the bedeviled swine Of e.. =;
he rushes violently down steep PIC.
into the sea.
She has no wicked intentions what
ever. On the contrary. her intentions
are all detestably good. And when thc
man rakes his mind for some reason 70;
his own misdemeanors he can reDlembei
nothing better than that "she drove hin
to it." which is poor excuse. yet true
enough So gardeners by frequent h.tle
pinchings abort the upright growth OF
trees into lateral obliquities.
There are very many men so depior-
ably human that to keep on accusing
them of All ofense 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 love them. and. like the oysters. al
ternately tickled and irritated by the
grains of sand which the Chinese drol
into them, viii grow to forget their
natures altogether.
No woman can be quite so miserable rs
she who loves only one man at a time
For the time she loves him, and being Un
able to absorb all her own unhappiEcss
she persists in offering him half OF it
Because she is so insanciy jealous of ms
time and his society she will. for the
sweet love she had of him.. waste the
one and try to engross the other until
she tormen,s him from innocence into
artifcc. and from artifce into revolt
and so in the sad end of it she can say
II knew was right all the time" Does
the discovery break her heart: Not 4
bit OF it. Women who love at this higi.
pressure do not break their hearts They
start-after a pause to repair damages
and to make collection. as 1t We're. OF
neighborly sympathies : loving again
somebody else.
Such women. in the extremity of thei,
affection for him, will throw vitriol III
mans face, will poison him with fy
papers-mr der him. SO it is not good
for woman to love severely ly'-nei;ne:
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, slacben speed or reduce the
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