The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-03-05
OUR Bah.
a WRITER WHO IS EVER PIQUANT
AND EVER BRIGHT.

and PROOF VIII ClaSh-LOVe, q Rose
lowering Butterfly - The DimDled
RoIue Who Is Cosxed With a We'd
ding Ring, and Becomes Manly and
Beautiful by Perfect Affsction-Man
is a Conventional Cresture-Bene-
dict, the Married Msn-Tragic Deaths
Is Death an Angel or a MonsterP
Copyright. 1927
NEW YORK, March 4-Reversing the
speech that made Adam famous. want to
say that it was man who tempted me-to
rush in to defend mankind. am not sorry
that did it, for it has proved to me what
lot Of friends have, and it has also shown
to me how little one cares for an enemy
when the account can be balanced. But
this time it is a woman who is tempting me.
She has written to me the most delightfully."-
persuasive letters, trying to induce me to
| say something about love; that is, to give
/ my opinion of it. l should personally have
| yielded to her, and she would have had a
little book of her own with my compli-
ments, but when another woman, who says
! she is a Christian scientist, says that am
afraid to say what think, 1 rush to where
angels and politicians fear to-in print.
THE MIND-WoRKING WOMAN.
| 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
the foundation. and science demands proof,
and the combination of the two words is
idiotic From the standpoint of Christian
ity, she wants to be all things 20 all men,
and from her scientific outlook, she wants
to put the science Of medicine entirely out
| of the field. Love will do great DEAL but
love, unbacked by medicine, won't take
me through an attack of pneu-
monia, or set my fox terriers broken leg
What would that fox terrier think of me if
l should telegraph to a 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 it is all nonsense. Give US all the
Christianity possible-the world needs it.
| When 1t means love, kindness, consldera-
ton, 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 tho love
which has become so coarse and material
lied 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's the truth. And it il what all this
nonsense about atfinities and love that is
greater than mere conventionalties and a
love that doesn't recognize the bonds Of the
world mems.
No matter how prettily, no matter how
oleverly 1t may be put, it is always the
same old sorrowful, dreadful story.
BAB's ESSAY ON LOVE.
Would you chain lovel asks my writer.
Yes, would. As far back az 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, per-
haps with ribbons, but always in some way,
Now, the way TO chain Love to-day is with
wedding ring. Then he is yours, and all
you have to do Is to keep the naughty
dimpled boy, and see that from being a boy
love, he grows into q great manly one,
made beautiful by perfect affection, and
ready to put about you the protecting arms
OF sympathy and possession. That's what
| believe in doing with love. And 10 is a
treatment the little rogue likes. Every now
and then my heart aches for some woman
who hasn't realized this, who, because she
was imaginative, because was believing,
and because she was ignorant, listened to
all this tiddle-faddle about love making its
own laws, the desirability Of doing away
with the marriage law, and the beautiful
heart unions that would result. Well, she
forms heart union, so-cslled, and after
little while-after the first blush has faded,
she finds herself wondering why, if the man
loves her, it wouldn't be just az we'll for
him TO recognize cOnventionalities and
marry her, because she don't like to have
her women friends snot speak to her; she
don't like to feel she is ostraoized; and,
even though he don't believe in it, il he
loved her. she don't zee why, simply because
it is tie custom, he won't make il all right
for her.
IS MAN A SINCERE LOVEMAKER9
He never does make it all right. Man is
the most conventional thing living. He
loved her we'll enough to want to get pos
session Of her, and he was willing 20 use any
arguments for this purpose; but having
gained what he wished, ne don'5 love her
well enough to be considerable of her, or not
to weary of her. Aud she, poor soul! Well,
sometimes she anticipates the day Of part
ing, and says good-by to him. | know one
woman who said it just before she fell into
the river; and who knows whether that
was accident or int ent. Sometimes the
treatment she has received from the world
and the man drives her to dreadful trade:
and where she used to talk of love, she now
talks of money; but much oftener, and this
Is greatly to the credit of women, she is
driven to caring for herself and getting
along as best she can.
., no, my Christian scientist, you are
mistaken. Love must be chained. or else it
isn't love, It's naughty little boy called
Desire, who isn't willing TO have the golden
circulate put about him; aud it is Just as
we'll 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 httle southern GIRL seems to
be the one In which he has come 10 you.
DOM trust him; he isn't Love, ne is Lust. He
appears as Benedict, the Married Man. He
whispers TO you of a marriage made in early
youth, OF uncongental, tiresome hours spent
with his wife; he whispers, o, 30 seduct-
lively that he has never met woman be-
fore who so 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 fattered By bis atten-
tions. He has more money than the
younger men, whose intentions are more
honorable, and therefore, he can give you
moro of the pleasures of life. All this NAV
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 women, and be
will be faithful just as long as you can
amuse and interest him; but il you lose
some of your charms. IL you develop few
pains and aches, just 80 certainly does Bene-