San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-02-02
you say you loved gentleman, or
did L misunderstood your

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did / misunderstood your
ayes, l said that very thing and
as a woman was made to love, | dc
not see why you should be so much
astonished at my being in love
Mr.. Sellers, but you have rot yet
given me your advice, which l SC
much need"
81 do not believe you could pos.
sibly do an unwomanly act, Miss
Maude, and il the happiness OF
your life depends on your marry.
iug the gentlemen whom you love,
1 see no improperly in your giving
him to understand that you love
him; but Miss Maude, marriage is
too serious an affair for you to con.
tract it from a girlish impulse, or
a temporary fascination take time
to study the disposition, tempera-
ment, traits and habits OF this gen.
tleman ere you take any decisive
step in the matter" answered Tom.
81 have your approval, then, Mr..
Sellers, Of my proposing to the
gentleman whom l love~ asked
Maude.
Certainly, Miss Maude; your
happiness is the first consideration,
and ought not to be sacrificed
to mere punctilio concerning
etiquette"
"Thank you, ever so much"
said Maude, "for setting my mind
at ease, and reconciling me to the
performance of so unusual an act.
Dear Tom, love you, supremacy,
and 1 ask you to accept my heart
and hand for life."
On hearing these words, Toms
bashfulnesS was put to flight, and
he flung his arms around Maude,
crying, "My darling, you have
made me very happy. 1 have
loved you for years, but / feared
you did not return my love-"
When Blanche heard of the hap
ply ending of the affair, she said :
Il was sure it would end that way.
Man, out of his excessive lordli-
ness, arrogated to himself the sole
right of deciding the destiny of
woman, by laying down the rule
that his sex must ask the woman
to marry. This absurd rule is the
cause of so many unhappy mar
riages. No woman can be happy
wife who does not love her huS-
| band better than all the world,
and women commit a crime when
they marry without love, for love
is to woman what light, rain and
sunshine are to vegetation.
1T Is better to have loved and lost,
Than never to have loved
Glove develops, ennobles and
sanctifles the best feelings Of men
and women, and it eradicates
selfishness from the heart. Old
maids have loved, and been disap.
pointed, and have rightly resolved
never to marry without loving the
man they marry, and l honor
them for their martyrdom in the
cause of love. A masculine cynic
reared on gall and womanhood
sweetened with the juice of crat
apples, has said there are super
fluos women but it was an un
truth and a SANDER. There is nc
'superfluous woman but if there
is, it is owing to the injustice o
man."
Tom Chalmers and Maud Seller:
were married in June, 1892, and
their honeymoon has not yet come
to an end. Blanche Elliott is un
married still, though she is en-
gagged to a noble fellow, who is il
Montana, striving to amass money
enough to support Blanche com
fortably. "Harry, l do not care fol
money, l will marry you, now,
Blanche said to him, in their part
ing interview. "NO, my darling,
love you too we'll to add life Ions
burden to you. That is a selfish
love, that dooms woman to life
of poverty, toll, discomfort anc
privation l want to smooth your
path through life and make yOr
happy, not to make you draw
water and hew wood, for me.
will come for you, dear"
ANTHONY w. DILLARD