The comet. (Johnson City, Tenn.) 1884-1916, 1894-01-18
CONCERNING LOVE.
The Divine Passion and lis PerturbIng
PerVerseness.

regulations pretty much, and doesn't
retain advisers. The Wisest sage
would get small thanks in undertak-
ing to show the way through the diff
fculties surrounding them to pair
OF lovers. Even when they are rush.
ing to pitfall of separation. on &C.
count of some trivial quarrel, you
could as easily cause the moon to halt
or the stars to fade as to head them
off from their impending fate. Talk
about obstinacyl Why, let me give
you an instance, This. couple was
about as wildly in love !, two people
ever got to be. And it's cases like
this tcat are most subject to quSrrels.
Where couple only loves in modera-
ton it doesn't matter much to- one
what the other does. But in genu-
inc orthodox love affair look ont for
gale whenever the sails are down.
Well, this particular couple had
struck squall some time before and
thenceforward occupied separate
,rafts. 1t ls remarkable, though, how
The wind of inclination will blow part
sd crafts together again. So John
and Kate drifted through neutral wa
ters to each other. Now, if you think
they acted sensiblY and "made it up"
YOU are vastly mistaken. That's what
they wanted to do, but here is the way
it turned out:
pardon me, Miss Bankhead," said
John, assuming tone that would
have lowered the mercury in arctic
lands" IL had no reason 10 believe /
would meet you here. Do me the JUS
tlce to believe that have not inten.
tionally thrust my presence ON you,
and that / deplore it quite as much as
you possibly can" r r.
That was deliberate violence to-
the truth, and Kate knew it. She
started, though, to be very frank with
him and she knew one word from her
would bring him to her side, aud her
heart ached to do it, But no, II he de-
clined the place of humility certainly
she should not assume it. 81 -
"Even had you Intentionally COM
mitted the blunder, Mr.: Norvin, ~ she
said quietly, and with q splendidly
feigned earnestness, "you could undo
bv simply turning back and prevent
ing any recurrence of such an obtru.
siOn."5 Va
John had nothing left to do then, as
he saw it, but to turn back, and he did
80 and never stopped till he landed in
South America. Kate, out rof pure
spite, turned in and MAI RED a wealthy
emptyhead. And all three have con-
tinued to live miserable. s..
That's the kind of freak love likes
to play, aud there is just enough per-
yersity in human nature to help him
do it in many cases. w
Love is not always as deep as a we'll.
I remember once where the belle OF
the town was in love with what we
now Gall masher, and he with her,
much to the misery of less preten-
tious fellow who was deeply in loye
with her himself. The masher, rec
ognizing the chagrin of his defeated
rival, found many OCCASIONS which he
improved, of holding the plain fellow
up to ridicuIe in the girls presence.
But one day they were all at a picnic
and there was loot log to cross
which had stob in it just at the mid
die of the stream It wasn't a very
conspicuous stob-but it was there
lust the same. The masher, with the
air of Napoleon, swept by the plain
fellow, the belle holding gracefully to
his arm. Oh, how the plain fellow did
envy the masher the glorious privilege
of conducting that heavenly creature
over the rushing streaml But before
he got through envying, the Washers
foot and the stob had disagreement,
and to compromise matters ne went
down into the water and took his fair
c. .npanion along and administered to
h lself and her'a hurried and unsat-
atory baptism. Then they foun!
q, d around in most lugnbrious
: IL OF way. Once or twice he would
a.. ppear as though seeking an exit
tns1ugh the bottom. All men have
az opportunity to become heroes the
pain and neglected rival saw his
eli .nce and was soon bearing burden
of loveliness and moisture to the
shore, Delivering her safely into the
frantic arms Of her frightened com.
panions he went back to the still
laundering masher, and after giving
him the benefits of q more thorough
baptism, also bore him to the shore.
Things we're all different after that
The plain fellow seemed to have be-
come TRANSPORTED in the eyes of the
little belle, but he rather kept away
from her. One day a girl handed him
4 rose and said: "She told me to give
It to you." But he was too proud tc
70 to her. He had failed to win hel