The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-07

W NJ significance in gen.
/ W " eral rather subjective
.A;ectiye? Has not each man and
woman his or her own idea of
Constitutes a love match? Does
ooh iudge of it by his or her ex-
'ces Would not list of its defni-
ySiyen by persons equally capable of
Ebing the thing, be ludicrously dis
arg Despite this contrariety many
think we vaguely comprehend the
,sciop but we regard it different
n the difference of our years. The
vouug regard love match sympa-
Eally; the mature, the middle aged,
lAOphically; the old, cynically.
4 seems absorbing, very important,
IS to 20. After 30 or 80 it is apt
scome subject for thought, a
a for speculation. AS topic it is
Is interesting, never quite exhaust
N common notion OF O love match
Nat it is an affinity of the sexes, a
{al uncomfortable passion that in
harmony and predicts happiness,
|tbe notion is old fashioned, near
bsolete, except with the sentimen-
Ind romantic, which includes the
Of women between 16 and 20.
emporaneous opinions are skeptical
Ne possibility Of happiness, owing
lbs TO the influence of pessimism
BE- the last 30 or 40 years, and
(h is still forcible. Satisfaction,
] complete, always partial, is now
tdered the highest gift of nature
BIZ fortune, and he in whose life it
Undertakes may we'll count himself
tiona1' lucky.
I've, even at its best, is not held in
days to be the source of happiness.
4 is, like everything else, composed
bod and evil, content and discon-
pleasure and pain; often grows to
Eretchedness, wholly or mainly.
matches are esteemed by the
yhtful and observing today to be
(ule remarkably miscellaneous and
carefully avoided.
I've in moderate, reasonable, en-
! sane sense continues to be ap-
fd, to be commended, but not in the
frenzied sense in which it is cou-
with the term love match. AS ev-
4dy is aware, q good deal of so
love is but emotional efferves-
romantic fancy, perfervid agita-
brief, vagrant, harmless, that
PES and leases boys and girls for q
weeks or months, as the case may
| II is only when love is taken so
|nsly as to denote marriage that it
to be in any way looked after.
indeed it is strictly the concern
Z community, as in Europe, for ex-
|e, though no one appears to care a
\ about its extension in this heed
distracted republic.
Prriage is really the business of the
but when the state attempts to
|pte it, particularly to hinder it,
ftate frequently does much harm.
Pc, or whatever is natural, is dan
Ps to interfere with. Humanity re-
Fs adjustment from within rather
without. 1t is the only completely
method. Men constantly act as if
mad a perfect right to starve a
PA to death connubially and beget
Prs without stint, but the law
not allow it if the law is energet-
\ appealed to, but it may easily be
Fd by any couple actively interest
Z trouble with love matches is that
Pve composing them is too speedily,
fxtravagantly expended, without
hought Of a steady or future sup
They run riot with feeling and
Fion; they reoklessly waste the
material that should be judiciously
9eaiously managed; they take lit
no account of anything but love,
p while it reigns, is autocratic,
esoning, irresponsible. A love
per is altogether needless of what
pc called the sinews of war-love
ny sexual battle-meaning par
Priy money, credit, the means of
Pg on, All persons Of common
KNOW that life of any kind cannot
|ustained for any time without
y married life especially. Death
Us independent Of financial con-
.ions. Lovers of the veritable in
type often deride dollars and
at least while the insanity RACES.
PoVe perishes without income as
perishes without oxygen. This is
fe truism, of course. The most
II par would ny at one another 8
= III week, if sufficiently hungry.
mere need of making continual
brought on by poverty will soon
[ne intensest passion that poet has
PAINTED. A couple naturally anti
NC can agree better with q fair
iary equipment than a couple d.
sympathetic on short allowance.
can imagine the mere average
being fond Of a man incapable
ing suitable clothes for her adorn-
after a dozen Homogeneous had
ror month or two, for four or
onths perhaps, she might be in
nj TO clothes, but later would
secretly long to be avenged for
mental deprivation? Could she be
a.ns.inctively feminine otherwise?
'imental girls may still speak Of
match with mild appreciation,