The age-herald., 1900-09-30

romantic love has never existed where there have been no opportunities for court ship. How could such passion be fostered without the secret opportunities, so dear to all lovers, for billing and cooing?"
 During the middle ages we find that con- jugal love was discouraged by the ascetic teachers of the Church, who laid emphasis on the importance of life of virginity, marriage being looked upon as an inferior state.
 There was no opportunity, as there was no encouragement, for the cultivation of womanly graces, and the cynical proverbs of the age reflect the character Of the Wo- men, @. g.-"Women and money are the cause of all the evil in the world;' 'If you are too happy, take a wife, Between woman'S yes and no there isn't room Tor the point of a needle" etc.
 Modern love Is romantic love, because modern life has furnished us with oppor- tunities for courtship, and the playwrights. the poets and the novedsts have encour- aged and taught us to believe it. The 5en- timent is looked upon by many as glamour, presenting the world in a new light.
 Be our experience in particulars what It may" says Emerson, mo man ever forgot the visitauons of that power to his heart and brain which created all things new; which was the dawn in him of music, poe try and art; which made the face of nature radiant with purple light, the morning pillow with the generous deed 1t resolved on; when the moonlight was pleasing fever and the stars were letters. and the flowers ciphers, and the air was coined into song; when all business seemed an inn pertinence and all the men and women running to and fro in the streets were pictures"
 It has been found that men secluded from society of women become slovenly in their dress, and more or less rude, rough III lAtx% their gait or method of walking becomes awkward and uncouth, their voice hoarse and less musical in tone, their sensations less delicate, their sentiments less religious and their passions more brutal
 These facts have been noted among sailors, miners and other workers who either spend the greater portion of their time without women or in the company of such as have lost the brightest charm of femininity.
 While men secluded from the company of women become rude and uncultivated, women who are almost entirely secluded from the company of men do not, at least In some cases, lose any of their natural softness and delicacy.
 Women, on the other hand, who associ- atae only with men, despising the com pany of their own sex, soon become the toughest and most uncutivated of the hu- man species, a fact which affords the strongest possible proof of the salutary in f1uence of female society.
 Some famous thinkers have expressed themselves strongly against romantic love.
 It is the opinion of Toistoi, the Russian philosopher. that romantic love Is a fever born of carnal passion; It's effect is a good deal like that produced by the consumption of opium. He claims that. while the sen sation of romantic love Is overpowering and delightful, it soon passes away.
 He believes that the Russian peasants teach the better-educated a needed lesson for thy look upon romantic love as a dis ease--temporary, painful and dangerous.