The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-10-27
UNMAKING LOVE.
Ion the al Nan Gazette


ton. 1 am by no means insensible OF
the great good luck of a man who is
loved by a good sort of woman, though
quite capable of pretending not to envy
him. But this wouldn't do at all She
was the prettiest girl there, and had
gravitated toward her beauty as mat
ter of course. L always pick out the
prettiest face, and so straight for it me
chanically. of course often don't ar
rive; there may be obstacles, and 1 am
quite content To make my bow to the
next Venus It would be a real shock
to discover that there was degree a
possibility between what I had achieved
and what l had abandoned, that L was
paying homage to a star Of lesser brill
fancy than necessary. The fact is, l
have quite enough Of reason and ideas
and intellect generally when 1 am at
work, and we are all Of us eternally ap-
plying some principle, and that's phi
losOphy. When 1 join the ladies, all l
| care about is to have my eye and ear
agreeably stimulated, not because they
are not capable of making me think
though 1 don't say they are, but because
at those times 1 want amusement, not
instruction. That's why / am so severely
| logical about feminine charms of per
son, and feel a personal loss when / wor-
I ship at a shrine of 80 beauty-power in
/ stead of 100. However, L am not often
in this dilemma, as nature doesn't cut
Wen, what was I to do? As I said, it
/ wouldn't do; she had no ideas; there
! was nothing for me TO cling to- We
might have gone on like that the rest
of our lives, 1 admiring her beauty. and
] she existing beautifully. l don't think
was to blame; l faced the question
fully, and honorably acquitted myself
l never sought her society, but when
we met l certainly did enjoy her musical
small talk, she had charming voice
l don't know what we talked about. /
can't remember her saying anything
| worth remembering, and L certainly
/ didn't attempt to converse. There was
string of questions and answers, just
like a royal commission, and about as
romantic But the whole thing, her
face, her voice, her easy chat, the frou
frou, was perfect holiday for me; and
l felt some of the acquiescence of sleep
without any of its Inconsistencies. 1
am unitarian person, but never reck-
oned the time wasted The sunshine
| warmed my talloW mind, and made it
siIoLseT 10 peaE more urasuc impress
sions. 1t strikes me now that the dis
| engagement which / displayed may have
/ looked like patience to her ingenious
ness and that there may have been n
trace of gratitude from the implied com
pliment, though all the thanks We're GER
/ tainly on my side. However, il came
| about, IL did come about. OF course |
might be wrong; in that case it wouldn't
/ matter what 1 did, but / know I was not
| wrong. At any rate, ] elected to as
/ thing.
Clearly. 1 couldn't run away. In the
| hrst place, this was practically incon-
/ Nenlent. Like other people, 1 am teth-
! cred in the shadows of circumstances
/ And, secondly, it smacked of the heroic,
/ OF which, Of course, / have a horror.
| l was afraid, too, that she would take
/ a feminine pleasure in feeding a senti-
ment for the absent, and my obvious
/ policy was to discourage not to in1ame
~ farm TIrr a
/ maintain the old attitude, but it would
/ have been false pretense to do so with
the OLD nonehalance. l took the first OPP
| porIunity OF denying myself.
she said.
Not l." 1 replied
What do. you mean? Don't you like
! beautiful things%'
only when 1 am looking at them. and
| even then am haunted by the fear thai
l am wasting time, and might be more
probably employed"
More prOftably?"
Yes; storing up sources that will last
facts, thought, goods, money, anything
but fancies."
You are coming out in a new light
"A new darkness. you mean,' I replied.
suppose you are what is called a
dark horse she rejoined
We both laughed, and she went awav
puzzled.
Next time managed to startle her
We We're talking of the newest novel
I
but 1t mustn't be contemporary Put If
INTO bygone days, in as large quantities
as you Ike; but the tale of to-day which
ueaIs with US and our friends, ought only
to encourage sober business principles.
She ought to have retorted: Such as
answering fool according to his follv"
| or by referring to the fact that n9st
| hction was designed to stave off bank
ruptcy, quite in accordance with my the
DRY. But she only said:
Don't you think we want a change
from our everyday life?"
7 don't" l said because my chief
amusement consists in watching other
peoples
Il didn't know you were such a critic.
L hope you haven't reckoned me up
The critic" ] said, shuts one eve in
order to get better view; the cynic pur-
posely puts on glasses that don't fit him;
and the opposite with the other"
asked.
4 have no view or views" said. ct
am the plain man who is supposed not to
exist. Now, the plain woman-'
Il know lots" she said, land very nice
What a pity it is" I said, that only
women can understand women. That's
why it is that men never really make
tnem good companions. We think too
highly of them; for instance, we think
that they are all beautiful"
But you know better all the timer"
"Of course we DO in practice, but the
theory is a good one all the same. 1t is
an attempt to take their own view, to
ment. The fact is that very few men
take any intrest in individual women:
it Is the sex that they think about-the
whole lot at once; it's so like a school
book; I hate anything dry"
"Tea?' ] said.
with pleasure" said she, smiling for
the first time; and we went off together
Well, we were getting on, but still l
didn't see the end. Chance came to my
rescue, as it does to every ones if they
only wait long enough There was a new
play, the great situation in it was the
heroine, who was universally supposed to
be a light and unsubstantial woman, de-
monstrating quite without design her love
for her husband; everybody was talking
about it. on this occasion conversation
was general, and some genius remarked
that his only objection to the new woman
was that she was so hopelessly old, she
was always relapsing into weaknesses of
this sort: there was no strength in such
a character; a strong woman would nave
acted quite differently in the second scene
where she could have deserted with honor
A well groomed youth sitting next to
her remarked pOintedly that if she did love
her husband, you know, that made all the
difference. She said If wives din't love
their husbands it was their (tne hus-
band's) own fault.
"Quite so,' / said, "if they will persist
in being satellites itstead Of having an
orbit of their own, in playing Damon and
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