Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-03-06

wooing scenes Painted By Wen
Known Nove1lsts.

nro cited as proof OF their authors deli
cate skill. Literary fashions mny wax
and wane, but the love story still remains
tho prime favorlte with "the general. -
So ens'ayed are we by the nursery tradi.
ton that we feel We hr-o been cheated
out Of something II the novel does not end
with some vor.ion oi the old fairy tale for
mula, 80 they w7ro mOrried n lived
happy ever after" although we have learn.
cd by our own experience or that OF Others
that @ntrimony Is not always the gatewai
! to Elysium.
IOse scenes In fiction arc OF many
kinds HowellS once described somo spar
/ rows in a garden MS "sduabbling like the
loyers Ia a lady's novel, and T. Is fact
that tine average feminine novelist mikes
/ her turllodcves peck each other with great
/ frequency and vlgor They blck r and
! pout, squabblc aud part forever several
/ times week Until finally they kiss and
mike friends as prelude to inn.rlmony
! Often there arc n pair VI light comedy
lovers to balance those whose passion a.
sumes tragic cast.
1t is our tradltlo.. TO believe that the
greater ardor Is folt by tho man, but even
as Samantha, In those long gone days
invoked the moon and twirlod her hrqzon
wheel, chanting tho while, My magic
wheel, draw home To me tho man love. "
there have always boen women who wuye
spells 20 lure toward them tho ncklo or
timid love. IL has been said, when h0
who loves Is dumb she who is loved is
deaf, yet there are heruines OF fiction
who go considerably more than half way
10 win the hero from his naughty silence
So wo find II In tho cAse OF Charlotte
Bronto's shirley who, In her proud, i'm
perious way, lets tho poor tutor SEQ a
glimpse Of her heart as II feeling that
her beauty and fortune permit her to OK.
erciso the right OF queen. The wild love
scenes beweon Emily Bronte's Heathclih
and Catherine arc like the fierce gambol.
inps Of pair Of tigers whose claws are
seldom sheathcd even in play. In feminine
fiction the gentleman often pays his nd
dresses In a manner that savors of intimi
dalton. He seems to fancy that he can
hector the lady into an ardent affection
for himself and Ii usually successful In 60
doing.
But this is not tho ideal loyemaklug.
We imagine that there should be tender
reverence ON the mans part, for, as Thacl,.
erhy says MEN sorvo women knogllng.
Whom they got on their feet they walk
away" The lover who docs not believe
his sweetheart nm angel has want Of
idealism that will make marriage appear
TO him very dull, sordld thing, lacking
that rosy glow with which illusion irradl-
ntes tho commonplace.
Tho walk OF Ruth Pinch and John
Westlock In the Temple garden is usually
ranked among the famous love scenes Of
fiction, and thoro is another garden cpl
sode-thnt between Give and Ethel New.
comc-whlch Is MS sincere in sentiment
and touched by far finer literary art. 1t
Is not always easy for a novelist to present
to the mind tho charming ohildishness OF
lovers without making them seem silly
and mnwkish but this Charles Reado I'm
Peg Wellington and Christie Johnstono"
has succeeded In doing. There are pas
snges in tho courtship OF Victor Hugos
Marua and Cosotto which have q wonder.
ful grace and pruttincss and likewise an
artlossncas that does not always belong to
loycmnling In Fronch fiction
Tho figures OF Tito and Romola, when
tho dark and bright curls ninglv in their
first embrace, stand out with cOlorful
ploturesqncnoss against tho rich back
ground OF old romance which is wanting
in modern tales, but though more impress.
I've, in n certain sonse, these old world
lovers nrc not more actual than Clym Yeo-
bright and Eustncla Vyo as they walk
hand In hand through tho furze and fern
OF Egdon heath. SIN more vivid Is tho
aurora nilitnrls which tho sword play OF
Sergeant Troy created about Bnthsheba
Evcrdcnc, ending with that sudden kiss
which startled her rebel heart awake.
or late years the river scene IN Rich
nrd Fcyerol" has often been mentioned as
an example Of all that Is idyllic, but my
writer who Is stirred to emulation will
find It n dinioult model. IL is 80 easy to
work OnOs self up into tho cjaoulatOry
mood Giyon plenty Of ink and paper,
there Is no reason why ono should not
continue indefinitely to reel of such SON
fences as' Pipe, happy sheep boy, Love
lrradlated angels, unfold your winds and
lift your voices Pipe, happy love, pipd
on to these doar innuconts"
a real idyl, not less simple than poetic.
IS TO 10 found In Cables John March,
Southcrnor," Tho time is spring--thc
tardy spring Of tho north-and tho man
and maid uro straylng through tho green
ing meadows and copsos apart and each
ono dreaming OF the others nonrn0ss. Tho
girl hears nfar tho sprlngtima cry Of tho
tho quail, two clear glad notes OF ma
ture'svoico, aud mimlos 10 In memory OF
her days OF childhood The youth, who
had idly uttered the note, fnncics himself
answered by u bird, md 50 they 10 on
calling and recalling, following tho suund
until they como faoo 10 face startled and
wondering, all tholr unconfossod loyu
shining In thoir oyea Now Orleans
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