Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1897-09-14
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THE NORIHERNER AS A LOVER.

A Southern vV6nnHiin Corhes to Hfs, De
/; tense AEnihst' FaISe AecuserS.1 >!
Under the title, "The Northerner AZ
a Lover" Lizzie Petit Sutter says:- u
The southern woman who illumin-
ated the pages of a contemporary re-
Gently by her views of The Northern
Man from Southern Woman's Stand
point ought to have entitled her ar
ticle, The Northernu Man from the
Standpoint of One Southern Woman
Who Has Had But Little Experience of
Him
Nobody denies the southern fascina-
tion Of manner, or the exquisite polite
ness Of the high-bred southerner, or the
capability of the southern man for;
making love- This last is vast, al
most limitless. Given moonlight. mu-
sic, the warmth of summers eve, OF
the solitude a deuX of winters fire.
side, and he from temperamental in
1luences feels himself compelled to
make love. which his bright antag-
onist, girl or widow, brought up from
childhood to know he will do it, an
swers with coquetish raillery Or pro-
tenn. encouragement, rs she prefers. 81
, The writer in question says that the
northern man makes love for the mere
pleasure of attaining. What does this
southern woman think of the husband
who, afteryears of marriage, will write
to his wife that she is the light of his
eyes, the core of his heart, the angel
of his life? Yet in wide social ex-
perience north have known husbands
quite aS devoted as this. God bless the
NJ hn
has found and proved it! And the
northern man does not know how to
make Lowell He doesn't? In my old
'mammy's verDacular: Why, Lord!
honey, you amt never had no northern
sweetheart, is you"
"lf the writer, whom have supposed
'mammy'-the old dcar-to be address,
| ing, had ever had any experience, she
| would have known the northern lover
better. All! if she could only know
how the unspoken chivairy of his heart
for woman wells up in deeds. not
words; how he hcralds his presence. or
slows in absence that his thoughts ere
always with her, by showers Of little
gifts, or rIans for her enjoyment!
"'Why do you give so many thirCs?'
said southern woman, with mcist
eyes, to her northern 'lovcr. DO YOU
think l care for you for the sake Of
these things|
/ "T believe, If do my level best to
contribute to your happiness. you win
care oil the more for me- he yvr. &..si-
bly, answered. l am not speaking Of
isolated cases, but of northern INCnas
a class. .-. ...
mot u man or woman who ever knew
northern men or women rs they 49,
would ever hazard the accusation that
they are cold and selfish. Few rich mon
at the north but have n tribe Of dc
pendents, to whom they give Of WHIT
they have made, often by many an
hour of arduous toll and patient e,-
durance. The middle working classes,
perhaps, arc colder nnd harder thant y
same classes at the south, because tn
conditions Of life IRE 20 much harder
on the poor at the north than at the
south; but let any emergency nris".
and they are thoughtful, considerate
and helpful Of each other The surface
. coldness Of northern people means sim
ply that they are more self-controllcd.
Your true northern man will march to
the stake without 1novifg a muscle OF
his faee;'~ill bear cruel pain until icy
sweat tUbedews his brow, YET never ut
ter murmur. In not such courago
sublime New Orleans Times-Demo-
crat.