The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-08-17
GO CRAZY
VICTIMS OF TIE TENDER PASSION
WHO BECOME INSANE.

From Father Adam Down TO the Present
tn. Lords Of Creation Have shown Them
selves Iamensahly Weak When Exposed
20 the wnes of the Fair sex.
There are, dare say, millions az lovers
whose love IS 50 commonplace that IL GOES
not affect their reason. Love il their eyes
means business prologue, 50 20 speak,
10 marriage. The lovers, however, who
yield themselves heart and soul % tLe ten
der passion. who allow themselves 70 be
bound in the tenderest tics and are blind
u the existence Of everybody save theia-
selves, must certainly have a screw loose
somewhere in their mental anatomy. Tho
stojcs. who looked en- all affection as a
foolish waste Of energy, rcEarCied love aS :
grave mental disease. Shakespeare. that
uur.yaled analyst II the weaknesses OF
human nature, Is authority for the state
Inent thas
Tie lucatjc. the lover and The poet
Are ~ imagination al compact
RoSalind, one Of the sanest characters,
exclains. Love Is merely madness. and.
/ tell YOU. deserves dark house and a
whip. - madmcn do And the reason
it r. not - punished and curcd Is
that the lInacy j. 80 ordinary that the
wipners are in love tOs Bacon calls
love "A species Of madness. " while Byron
confessed toward the close Of his short bet
Chcckercd career that IL was madness for
him 20 love 80 pasSionatsly as be did. \
large number Of the worlds eminent men
have made fools OF themselves for love Of
woman Father Adam lost paradise on
earth for himself and posterity by yielding
70 ives tempting offer of a slice ~ apple.
HOlOfernCS lost his hcad-in two scnsCs-
by accepting the csresses of Judith. An
tony was a luratic to have sacrificed every
thing 70 LIS love Of the charming Cleo
patra. Paris, son Of Priam, ought 10 have
been put in q strait Jacket for having tam
pered with the matrimonial preserves Of
Menelaus, the result Of which poaching on
his part caused the splitting OF oceans "
human blood IS we'll as the destruction OF
Troy
Petrarch spent his cray lie IN pennIng
sonnetS 10 the eyebrows of a portiy married
woman, the mother of a large family,
while he utterly neglected his legitimate
wife and would not permit bis daughter
10 live under his roof Dante ia his maud
lin love for Beatrice says: so powerful
was the spell OF her presence that | had -
avoid her. From thinking II this most
gracious creature 1 became so weak and
lean that il was irksome for my friends
70 look az me. - He was compelled 10 hide
his skeleton frame in shame and confusion
IA spectacle for ridicule and dcrision. Is
not this proof evident that even the bright
est and strongest geniuses degenerate into
silly addlc headed mouofnaniacs under
the influence Of this fatal PASSION When
Beatrice for the first time denied him her
smile he saws hc became Possessed with -
much grief that, parting himself from
Others. he went into "a lonely place TO bathe
the ground with the hittcrest tears.
Love found its eadiest victims In the
knights and truubadours OF the middle
ages Ulrich Won Lichtenstcin. "a medic
val German cavalier loved a married
woman with all the intensity Of "a lunatic
He used 20 drink with Rusto the water ia
which she had lavcd her dainty hands 10
had IA portion Of his under lip cut of he
cause his mistress told him 10 was so ir-
regular in construction that IL did not in
vite her kisses" He used 20 roam over
hills and galleys I'm quest 81 other knights
whom he challenged e. duels II they dIrrd
u doubt that his Dulcinea was the fair,st
of the fair On ono occasion he amputat-
ed one Of his fingers and presented 10 ~
his patroness as a proof Of the torture Do
could endure for her sweet sake At her
command he went among the lepers and
drank from the same bowl, in order 10 at
test his devotion 20 bis lAdyloyc. All this
time Ulrich's wife pincd alone I'm her cha
teau in the forest, waiting anxiously FOR
her dear lord. who, when he arrived on
the scene. looked so utterly tired and I'll
lspidated that she had % put him - bed
and nurse him for several months, at tho
expiration 81 which time be would sally
forth once more % do doughty deeds for
another mans wifei Ulricb was a very
good type Of the lunatic lover
Hadlaub tells Us q a Truton mime
singer or troubadour who foll 20 hclplcs-,y
in love with little girl that when she
used 70 bite him be became "hissfuily
ec-tatic. With all his senses Ike burning
Goals. Her bite, he naively confess.
was 50 tender and womanly that ! use,i %
be sorry the feeling passed away ~ s0ou.
Pierre Vidal. another trUubadour was 80
infatuated with his ladyloye. whose name
was Loha twoiD. that he had himself sevged
up in a VOLTS hide and used % sramprr
over the hills daily 50 disguised In order -
please his darling. One day, however, The
shepherds dogs chased the unfortunate
pet anu Hf4stliE NAIAtft4N p4iai'faa va thtfi
hide in their jaws they tore OF a slice -
bis aesh 70 boot, whercupon the trouha-
dnur abandoned his volfsh mask. o. the
great disgust 81 his mistress, who 70
nounced him for his srrant oowardior.
Even the sacrifice u "a pound u her lovers
flesh in her service would not satisfy thls
cruel and willfIl lady.
The lover. like the lunatic, likes solitude.
One q The medical attendants 1T q Boston
Iuna,ic asylum assures me that when BIS
patients are let out In the garden far rec
restion they never form into groups. Eash
walks alone, aGopinz and breeding over
one particular idea The particular ifisa
Of the lover u ths only and everlasting
she Does she love hluf Does sis unff
lie calls 70 mind ovs-y word she uttered.
every attitude sire assumed iu their iasg
c0nvcrsat.cn. Re twists and d.sf-s-fs bog
most insi gnif-ant remarks o. such ~ 90
tent thai Re fears sle may prefer another
% him. n j. r 7eascd mind hocorrFf rria.t-T
morbid A. the idea u her t~iug carrrs-d tT
other than him@elf Jaalpgsy fak~s fss-
session q hi- zogl, AMI he s--ears 'fa+ -
s1c PLAY him fslse he srlll rvpsai tle trHEIe
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