Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1893-04-19
WHEN A WOMAN LOVES.
what One Man Thinks He Know. About
the IuhBlt. and Unknowable.

When woman loves severely SHE
begins 10 be unloyable. For she be-
gins 10 be unreasonable, and. for her
great loves sake, 10 do her best to
make miserable the all too fortunate
winner OF her affections. She insists
upon accusing him of virtues which he
Enows are not included in his char
acter, and taxing him with failings of
which he is just as completely inno-
cent. and with that intolerable itera-
tion which is supposed by woman to
be some sort Of argument.
The result il that the man begins in
time 10 believe that he is good where he
is not. and to turn bad simply because
she saws he is so already. He may be
as faithful as mullet (~for chaste love
the mullet hath no peer"), but she will
worry him BY the assiduity of her sus-
picions. and her consequent lamenta-
lions. out of the secure highway of
connubial affection into the hazardous
bypaths that lead past other mems or
chards to the Tom Tiddler's Ground of
the Divorce Court. Simply because
she loves him so-and she pleads no
other excuse when on occasion he at
tempts reasonable discussion OF the
misunderstar dings-she will make his
bad seem gooa to him and make his
good become Lad till the seven take
possession of him. and like one of the
bedevilled swine of Gadara, he rushes
violently down steep place into the
sea. She has no wicked intentions
whatever. On the contrary, her in
late 10 4 nd
when the man. rakes his mind for some
reason for his own misdemeanors, he
can remember nothing better than
that she "droye him to it," Which is
poor excuse; yet true enough. So
gardeners by frequent little pnching
abort the upright growth of trees into
lateral obliqutes.
There are very many men so deplor-
ably human that to keep on accusing
them of an offence 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. alternately tickled and irri-
tated by the grains of sand which the
Chinese drop into them. will grow to
No woman can be quite SO misera-
able as she who loves only one man at
a time, for the time she loves him. and
being unable to absorb all her own I'M
happiness, she persists in Offering him
half of it, Because she is so insanely
jealous of his time and his society, she
will, for the sweet love she had of him,
waste the one and try 10 engross the
other, until she torments him from in
nocence into artitice, and from arttice
into revolt; and so in the sad end of it
she can say, 81 knew ! 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
pause to repair damages, and to
make collection, as it were. of neigh
borly sympathies-loving again, some
body else. Such women, in the ex-
tremity of their affection for him, will
throw vitriol in mans face; will
poison him with fypapers-murdcr
him. So it is not good for a woman to
love severely; neither good for him
nor for her. The sensible man, when
he sees it coming, will put up the hur-
ricane shutters, back engines, skin the
wheels, throw salt in the fire-do any
thing, in fact, that will meet the
emergency, slacken speed or reduce
the temperature. Unless he be sala-
mander. As to which, by the way.
the ancients were divided in opinion,
some averring that he ate the fire up,
the rest that he was so cold that he
put the fire out.
The moral of all which is, that if YOU
think Il woman is going To love you too
much, break it off nj once and ex-
change into West India regiment.
If YOU wish to love, and be loved, in
perfect happiness, never question each
others fidelity. So mutual honor will
become sacrament in your heart of
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