The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1898-12-10
4 Womsn's Display of Loye.

One OF the flppant superficial women
! of the new school Of fction-writers
says that very few men are better for
having women show how much they
care for them.
The proposition Is. so loosely stated
that 1t is capable of several construc-
lions, but neither will bear the test of
experience.
1t is not clear whether the type of
man in question is the object of inter-
est to a number of women, or whether
be Is husband whose care is the OBJ
ject of a wife's demonstrations. In
either case the writer is mistaken.
There is no man more to be envied
love, but is permitted to enjoy her
manifestation of it. A silent and de-
monstrative self-satis6ed love is as in
valuable as the gold which is yet at
Klondike in its undeveloped ore bed.
Its intrinsic value may be great, but,
it is free from the nature OF mate OBJ
curity, it confers no blessing. What
qualification would it be to man to
know that far-off woman cared for
him If the affection were never to be
displayed in propinquity by words or
actions? It would be not blessing,
but a life's desert, If it were not az
companied by the hope of eventual
fruition in companionship.
The most beautiful feature of q
woman's love Is the varied and loyal
effort it makes to demonstrate its
strength and singleness Of purpose, by
never ceasing expressions in attention,
such as no other relation can afford.
The affections, TOO, are as subject to
the law of development and supply
under demand, as the physical quail
ties are. Love lying dormant does not
thrive, it alternates, contracts and
diminishes. Love expands as it is
called upon f1r greater sacrifices. 1t
is so notorious and universal as to af.
ford truism, "that husband who
gives hls wife most anxiety and care Is
usually the most fondly and unselfshly
loved" This, of course, does not
prove that the husband always be-
comes better from the lavishment of
affection, yet it is true that more men
are ruined, and far more homes broken
up, through the absence OF wife's |
love than through the presence of an
active, care-giving affection. Some |
men, like the late statesman and |
premier of England, "Disraele," are
so constituted that love is only |
secondary with him.
1t is very rarely that a man is un.
moved by woman's affection or de-
votion. In lesser or greater degree |
the influence is always to be seen or
felt. Unfortunately. the kind of re-
turn such devotion seeks is not always
accorded the woman. The nature Of
women Is even more varied than that |
Of man. 1t sometimes Graves, as re.
turn, the qualification OF social aspira-
tions, of display of dress; but too
rarely, In the desire for mortal COM
panionship. 1t matters very little in
what way q woman shows her love. or
how much she cares for man, he is
always the better for her affectionate !
regard, unless he is utterly worthless
and then 1t would only be the wasting
Of her sweets upon the desert air.
a woman,s love cannot alwavs make
\ good man OF bad one, but it never
tails to make good man better.
Woman is and always has been,
The better half of man and is superior
10 man, for
When our Creator deigned to show,
Angelic beauty here below,
He formed the female. tender frame,
His mirror to reflect the same.
J. CREAGH,