The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1893-06-02
when D Woman Loves.

sne peglnS 10 be unreasonable,
and for her great loves sake, to
do her best to make miserable
the all too fortunate winner Of
her affections, She insists upon
accusing him of virtuesiwhich he
knows are not included In his
character, and taxing him with
failingsof which he is just as
completely innocent. and with
that fntolerable iteration which
isSsupposed by women to be some
sort Of argument.
The result is that the man be-
gins in time to believe that he is
not, and to turn bad simply be-
cause She says he is 50 already.
He may be as chaste as a mullet
("for chaste love the mullet hath
no peer, but she will worry him
by the assiduity of her suspicious,
and herconsequent lamentations,
out of the secure highway of
connubial affection into the
hazadons by-paths that lead past
other mems orchards to the Tom
Tiddler's ground of the divorce
court.
Simply because she loves him
so and she pleads no other ex-
cuse when on occasion he at.
tempts a reasonable discussion of
their misunderstanding w she
will make his bad seem good to
him and make his good become
bad, till the seven take possession
of him, and. like one of the be-
deyiled swine of Gadara, he
PUSHES violently down a steep
place into the sea. She has no
wicked intentions whatever. On
the contrary, her intentions are
all detestably good.
Ard lRhap the man raIses--lie-
mind for some reason for his
own misdemeanors he can re-
member nothing better than she
drove him to it" Which is a
poor excuse; yet true enough.
So gardeners by frequent little
pinchings abort the upright
growth OF trees into altered
obliquities.
There are very many men so
deplorablp human that to keep
on accusing them of an offence
is sufficient to make them com
NIT 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 irritated by the
grains of sand which the Chinese
drop into them, will grew to for
get their natures altogether.
No woman can be quite so
miserable as she who loves only
one man at time, for the time
she loves him, and being unable
TO absorb all her own unhappi.
ness, 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 to engross the other,
until she torments him from in.
necence into artitice and from
artitice 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 a bit of it. Women
who love at this high pressure dc
not break their hearts.
They start-after pause TIC
repair damages and to make q
collection, as if it were, of neigh,
borly sympathies-lovlng again,
somebody else, Such women, ii
the extremity of their affection
for him, will throw vitriol in 8
mans face; will poison him with
fly papers-murder him. So i
is not good for woman to Low,
severely; neither good for hin
nor for her.
The sensible man, when h,
sees it coming, will put up tn
hurricane shutters, back engines
skid the wheels, throw salt in tn
fire-do anything, in fact, tina
will meet the emergency, slacke
speed or reduce the temperature
Unless he be salamander.