The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1893-11-19

attempt To tOrtify the strength OF what
ever position they make take concerning
this or that topic. by making quotations
favorable TO their arguments from the
works OF famous authors and learned
philosophers. Such a course may be en-
urely Just and proper In most OF the con-
Germs OF life, but II counts for but little
In matters OF love. A man may be wise
enough 10 measure the size. weight and
brilliancy OF the most distant stars and
yet know but mighty little about a girls
heart. He may be able 10 cast a hOros-
cope or 10 predict an eclipse. yet he can
not for the life Of him tell why an other
wise seemingly sensible girl will Jit n
real nice. well-to-do young man OF good
partentaGe 10 elope with "A red-naired
horse doctor whom she knows already
| has a wife in an adjoining state Many
a man who has written learnedly or love
TO the extent OF volumes has afterwari
| made such a middle OF wooing that the
| whole world has given him the laugh. The
| poet with his versihed and Lgh-sounding
| philosophy knows no more Of womaRs
| heart than the simple powboy. IL was
Shakespeare who declared
"Fralty. thy name is woman,"
But that IS not all he said by any means.
In another place he remarks:
Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more,
hleu were deceivers ever;
One foot in sea and one on shore,
To one thing constant never"
And again he says:
MEN are April when they WOO,
December when they we'd"
The same author says some very pretty
things concerning love and constancy.
There's beggary I'm the love that can be
reckoned." belongs TO him. This teaches
us that young people who love each other
a bushel. a hundred bushels, or a million
bushels, even. are poor lovers. according
to his way Of thinking. Then again he
says:
Love IS not love
Which alters when II alteration finds"
| We see from this that true love when
| once II gets a good hold on us clngs with
| the same pertinaclous tenacity that
cockie-burr do 10 a cows tail. This Is
/ constancy the day star. the keystone. the
ne plus ultra OK love. But alas! how
many Of US there are who are like GER
| tain bank cashier a San Francisco paper
spoke Of as having his pride properly
humbled just as we all should when we
grow tickle and forgetfnl OF our loves
| Of other days.
you must be Identified" he said 10 a
tall. hook -nosed woman In green. red and
| blue who brought i'm a check at a time
his window was crowded.
well I-I-why-I-no. Il caynt bel
Yes, it is. tool Amt you Henry smith,
That's my name, madam he replied,
coldly
AN YOU don't kr ow me- Hem im
| changed some, an so are YOU but | list
/ knowed ia seen ye. you've got that
! same old cast I'm your left eye; your nose
| croOl-s "a little to the left, an you're
| Smith ali over. An you don't know met
| Don't you know Salndy Spratt that YOU
Ulster coax to become Salindy Smith?
! Member how ye ulster haul me to school
| on your sled an KISS me in the lane, an
| call me your little true love? Member
how you cut up cause | give you the
| roitten2 Land. Hen. ! could stand here
| all day talkin' over them old times! You
kin identify me now, caynt ye Hemp
| Hen" did 50. but in a mood that al
| most produced apoplexy.
And so Il is with many of us. We are
not constant. We love the rose only dur
ing its opening hour. our love alters
| when II alteration linds.
| Ard Byron-Byron, you know, was him
self not a blue-rbbon example OF constan.
cy-it was he who wrote:
"As soon
Seek roses I'm December. Zee IN June;
Hope constancy I'm wind. or corn In chan,
| Believe In woman, or an epitaph,
Or any other thing that's false"
Yet in another place he pays this tribute
TO a woman's love:
MANS love is OF mans life "a thing apart.
IT'S woman's whole existence"
Men speak OF love as being everlasting.
and vet they go on testing about their
summer and winter girls, and think an
election, a rise or fall IN stocks. or more
| tr ucrtance than anything Cupid can
devise. Love can never prove constant
II IL has a mercenary motive back OF II.
The man who marries just because he -
out Of money and IS compelled TO do
something need not hope for welded hap
piness.
shakespeare says: MEN have died from
time 10 time and worms have eaten them.
but not for love" Does he mean that
mems love is not sufficiently burning and
constant 20 go with them into the grave
The poet Cowley informs us that
"A mighty pain to love II is
! And Ills pain that pain 20 miss,
But OF all the pains, the greatest pain
IL Is 20 love, but love In vain
Taken all In all, II Is very probable That
/ vvonan's corstancy is fully equal TO that
OF men. The latter have a much wider
latitude OF diversion than do the FORMER
They may sigh 10 many. though tney
| love but one, and thus their hearts desire
|
| men TO the oneness OF a home as wome,
are tied and they might oftener sign foI
Greater freedom. Men often say that
when poverty comes IN womans nckle
love disappears, but such declaration
dishonors IT'S author. Women VIII prove
, constant through the drest sort or pow
erty. and when everything seems broken
, and lost they gather up the rayeied ends
and try TO make thirgs for the better.
Men NAV meet the orunt Of the battle,
bat the women always faithfelly remain
10 nurse back TO life and happiness the
, sick and wounded. Ever since the days
az Ruth women have been saying:
. ."yhi,her thou gocst. l VIII go; and where
thou lodgest, 1 will lodge; thy people
, shall be my people, and thy Gcd my God.
And they have as faithfully Kept their
r VOWS.
Women and love sre not the ncki'
thinQs which many OF the vtrse-fnakers
| would have us 20 believe.
'aTo nave and 70 hold from this da)
forward. for better. for worse. for richer
scr poorer. in sickness and In health. &c
II love end 10 cherish. till death do III
mart" Let the old words stand ever az
q they are for the time will never come
when men and omen whose ftar's are
touched with true love VIII ssk 70 nave
e the tie made less blf ding. binshins
bride Is a pretty thing % othold' put
I nanny AUD wife maketh the angeu
glad.
The smallest holes pierced by modert
i, .achinsrv are said 10 be i-i0o OF an ine1
= 80 d,smeter. They are bored through