The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-08-09
LUNATIC LOVERS
From Kate Fields Washington.

From Kate Fields Washington.
A large number of the worlds emf
nent men have made fools of them
selves for love of woman. Father Adam
lost Paradise ON earth for himself and
for posterity by yielding to Ewes tempt
ing offer Of slice of apple. Holo-
fornes lost his head-in two senses-by
accepting the caresses OF Judith. An
tony was a lunatic to have sacrificed
everything to his love of the charming
Cleopatra. Paris, son Of Priam, ought
to have been put in strait-jackct for
having tempered with the matrimonial
preserves of Menelaus-the result of
which poaching on his part caused the
the spilling of oceans of human blood,
as well as the destruction of Troy.
Petrarch spent his crazy life penning
sonnets to the eyebrows of a portly
married woman, the mother of a large
family, while he utterly neglected his
Legitimate wife. and would not permit
his daughter to live under his roof!
Dante in his maudlin love of Beatrice
says: $50 powerful was the spell Of
her presence that had TO avoid her
From thinking of this most gracious
creature, 1 became so weak and lean
that il was irksome for my friends 70
look at MEL He was compelled to hide
his skeleton frame in shame and confu-
sion-a spectacle for ridicule and deri-
sion. Is not this proof evidence that
even the brightest and strongest gen
fuses degenerate into silly, addle-
headed monomaniacs under the infu-
ence of this fatal passion? When
Beatrice for the first time denied him
her smile, he says that he became pos
sessed with such grief that, parting
himself from others, he went into
lonely place to battle the ground with
the bittersst tearsl
Love found its readiest victims IN the
knights and troubadours Of the middle
ages. Ulrich Won Lichtenstein, medi-
aeval German cavalier. loved married
woman with all the intensity OF luna
tic. He used 10 drink with gusto the
water in which she had laved her dainty
hands. He had portion Of his under
lip out of because his mistress told him
that it was so irregular in construc-
tion that il did not invite her kissas-"
He used 20 roam over hills and valleys
in quest OF other knights whom he chsl-
lenged to duels, II they dared TO doubt
that his Dulcines was the fairest OF the
fair. On one occasion ne smPutated
one of his fingers and presented II 10
his patroness. as a preOf OF the torture
he could endure FOR her sweet sake A.
her command be went among the lspers
and drank with then from the same
bowl. II order TO test his devotion TO
his lady-love- AL this time Ulrich's
wife pinned alone in her chateau n the
forest, waiting anxiously for her dear
lord, who. when he arrived On the
scene. looked 50 utterly tired and dlap-
dated that she had 20 put him 20 bed
and nurse him for several months, a.
the expiration Of which time he would
sally forth once more 70 do doughty
deeds FOR another mans wife. UiricE
was very good type Of the lunStic
lover.
Hadlaub tells rs q a Teuton mime
singer or troabzdou- who fell 50 help
leSsly IN love with . little girl thai,
when SIZE used 20 bite him. he became
'.blissfully ecs:atic~ vvith all MS senses
ike burning Goals Her bite. BE naive
IL contssses. was - tender and 50
yvomanly that used 70 De sorry the
feeling Of it passed away 30 sOO1,"
Pierre Vidal. another tro1badO1r. Sss
- infatuated wiki ais i@dy lore. whOee
name was -'I.oba he had
himself ssyred Up IN . wolFs hide AID
used % sczmPer over tie hills daily 50
diszu ise3. u order 20 please hls dzr-
ling. One day. however, TIE shepherds
GsTs clzszd the unf1r;sna;e pot AID
sizing varie1s portions - TIE Lsd@ n
.heir Jaws thev bore or slice o. "a
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