St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1897-08-13
Some Rambling Thoughts.
BY "NEMO."
copyrighted by Dave & Tabor


BY "NEMo."
copyrighted by Dave & Tabor.l
To YOUNG MEN IN LovE.-You have |
had your chances to twin other fellows
when they gradually absented them.
selves from the store or the corner but |
now your time has come; for l assume
your male companions have already
found you out. Like thieves set to catch
thieves, they recognize the symptoms,
and they tease you little if you are
easy-going and much more if you are
bad tempered about it. Now stranger,
young man among young men, would
like really thorough communion with
you on the same subject, but not in the
same spirit of fun.making. l realize that
none of us know all things; that some
few of us think more than Others; and
that the greater number enter into no
sort of understanding of the beautiful
oasis love can prove to be i'll desert life.
So let us chat together as though were
tried and truest friend to whom you
had come in perplexity.
Do you realize how great change has
come over your spirit Go back few
years in your memory! AS whooping,
rollicking boy, full Of good spirits and
probable tyrant among your sisters. girls
were all very similar to you. Your free
boyish spirit made you almost look
down on the helpless "softies," who
could not climb trees at all nor run races
well, nor play games passably. There
may have been in those early days, one
bright-eyed school miss who found in
you champion and a protector. But
you were more or less ashamed Of your
sneaking regard had no idea Of the king
dom of love whose outskirts you were
traversing and the boy who poked fun
at you about it was almost sure to be
given "the lie," with full measure of
fists behind it. In time that experience
probably came to an end. The girl was
forgotten or if remembered only as a
confirmation of your later theory that
woman needs protector in man.
Schooling came to an end, business
began, and the chums of the store and
the street had so much of evil suggestion
to make regarding girls that your main
thought of them was as very pleasant
aiterthought of the Deity, devised for the
amusement and comfort of mankind, of
whom you were chief.
But now another change has come.
Forgetting your beittlng ideas of
"softies" and "playthings," you have
been pressed forward by the selective
impulse of Nature to point where you
see one whom you desire "to have and
to hold" though all the rest perish. In
other words you are ''in love-" and
because you are, believe, for time at
least, you have escaped from earlier
unworthy ideas. The woman you love
has opened the dismal dungeon of lascivi.
Gus thought that holds so many youths
in thrall. How has she done it? Mainly
through your own conviction, that,
whatever OF playthings other women
may be, this one-your one-is pure
noble spirit. Your soul is at last out Of
its prison of wrong understanding; q
woman has released it, and in the first
access of new idea, you place her on 6
pedestal OF glorious esteem; you worship
her in secret as goddess hoping som'
/ day soon to proclaim her as such in tn,
, ears Of the community.
, Mark how the sleeping landscape
Lies in the twilight gray,
BY the shades of night half hidden,
Dreaming the time away.
Watch as a rosy finger
Heralds the coming dawn.
Pointing the varied beauties
' Of tree and wood and lawn!
See the world spring to brightness,
y Glisten with laughing dew,
8 Changed in single moment;-
, The heavens, the earth are new
s So on the youth or maiden,
, Fresh from the realms above,
Their twilight life Transforming
There breaks the Dawn of Love.
o Mile after mile will you travel in tn
J. stormiest weather if only you may sc
& herior few moments. Without a qualr
d Of conscience, you now are apt to let til
:, ordinary girl SHIFT for herself wher
IS escorts are needed. But your dear on
e finds in you one so persistent that h
}. sees her home the longest way rounc
1. even though his own comfort and res
is are seriously affected You count all los