Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1894-03-17

mankind.
Should the woman thus approached
feel disposed to terment her tentative
lover, she has thousand ways Of doing
so. She laughs ct his sentimental
speeches. She fails to understand his
clever compliments. She asks him iron
zeal and teasing questions with an air of
seraphic innocence and ingenious desire
for Information She entertains him
with praises of his rival. She cares
nothing for boating, which is the end
and aim Of his being, and dotes upon
4 horses, Of which he knows nothing.
Then, when she sees him utterly daunt-
ed and defeated. when she sees, in fact,
i that the courage which should have sus-
1 tanned INN is utterly exhausted, and he
is about to seek safety in fight. she
flashes upon him q smile, long, sweet
look, tone, a gesture, a word, and he is
at her feet again.
Perhaps, on the other hand, the wom-
an is attracted to the man who has hard
~ noticed her. She is not delayed i'll her
approaches by any sense of doubt or
y mystery; she does not in the least look
upon the object of her regard as
4 sphinx or mystery; she is not at all
/ afraid of him or of what he may do
or say: she understands his nature so far
st least as she needs to for her present
purposes, and she feels instinctively that
she has the battle in her own hand; she
i goesinto the fraythat is to say, into the
sweet combat of loTe-with calm and as
sured courage, while he, as We haze said,
is tremulous with that fear of The I'M
known which is the most demoralizing
of all fears. We will suppose that she
really desires this man as husband and
does not, as in the former case, wish
merely TO amuse herself with conauering
him. Her tactics are now altogether diff
ferent. and the theory held by man of
what woman is and should be is based
upon the course pursued by a woman in
love who intends permanent result
from her passion.
She now shows herself gentle docile,
thirsting for information upon any sub
ject the man fancies himself learned in,
let it be boots or horses, Aristotle or Bis
marck, pork or grain or sloyd or theoso-
/ ply or finance No matter which of
these OF hundred more does he dis
course upon, it is the one subject on
which she has always longed to be in
formed, and she combines with the inno-
cent ignorance of the dove so much of
! the wise intelligence Ghd quiclzness of
! the serpent that the ;nan, fooled to the
top of his bent, is presently ready to de-
clare that such sweet and suggestive
sympathy is precisely what he has al
ways needed to enable him to carry ont
his life's work, and if be can only secure
it as his own, etc.
Or, if the declaration is not so easily
reached, il the mans Inherent cowardice
holds him back even while his love urges
him forward, how the woman's calm
courage and self command enable her to
general the situation. How quietly she
gives him the opportunity which he new
er could have found for himself. How
easily and gently she guides the CONVEX
sation into the channel, conducting by
easy if sinuous reaches to the desired
haven! With what tact she iaterprets
his awkward, stammering phrases and
puts into his mouth turns of speech
which he dimly desired, yet never could
have originated And all the time, like
the acting commander in battle, she
leaves the baton in the hands Of the mar
shall who sits in the shade and looks on.
The page killed the bear;
The knight had the glore,
and the man goes away from the scene
Of his betrothal with the step and mien
of a conqueror and thinks to himself
what dear, sweet, gentle, docile little
wife he is to have, and what a clever fel-
| low he is to have drawn that tilnid con-
fession Of love from her reluctant lips.
Life goes on, and the courage of wom-
anhood develops i'll grander ways and
more useful FORMS Riches take wings,
and the man, finding himself embarrass-
ed, shrinks with masculine tilnidity from
facing the fact himself CT from confess
ing it to the world. Perhaps he even
tries to hide ii from the wife of his bos-
ON, but she smiles at the attempt at
evasion, plEcks out the secret, and hold.
ing it up in calm, courageous hanls
shows it for the poor thing it is and tells
SO bravely how it is to be conquered and
| put ASIDE that the man p.ucks up heart
OF grace TO meet the foe before whom he
rad been ready TO fail down IN abjeet
SUBMISSION.
Ana II poverfy--deep, elre poverty
comes II Is woman 5 courage that meets
u ana makes TIE lest q II; 1t Is she who
cares 10 snow heFseif TO the world. to
their own world, in the garb and equipage
and occupations Of poverty; it issue who
says, virtually, il not in words,
Ny mind to me a kingdom ia,
and reign5 a queen within that kingdom
undisturbed by the stupid comments Of
poor souls who cannot co,nprehend her
or her ROYALTY.
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