The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-04-30
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N. M. MURDOCH, Editor.
THAT CHICAGO PROFESSOR.

THAT CHICAGO PROFESSOR
Professor Agie R. Cook. CT the Northwestern UniVeT
sity faculty in Chicago has developed through tattng
undergraduates has never kissed or Rugged woman He
Is handsome manly fellow of talent and experience He
lived in Paris for time and escaped And in Italy In
America none Of the beautiful and auring dreams in
eauze have turned his head
He offers this explanation Of his invulnerability q
have Travelled in all parts Of Europe except Scandinavia
have seen the women the continental nations have
not been interested in such things busy informing
myself had no time to waste the other sex Here
work take my young men out and show them practical
mining endea7or to them for their struggle with the
world try to increase my own knowledge along the lines
to which have devoted my life"
The professor will be laughed at Yet who is
good lover must make love paramount The real down
right threepy veyefngered lover has to pay as much
attention TO the art vtolinst does to lis violin
week away from love viii put him out &C practice When
youth is in love deyoes its whole time to the gentle
lunacy Death destruction and tornadoes viii not divert
It The other extreme is complete callOus Indifference
to the passion in which man ceases to be possible
lover entirely.
whole lot Of people who claim to love are passing of
respect regard esteem fidelity and admiration in coun
terfeit on themselves And whole lot of people who
claim that they do not love burning with Jealousy
unspoken declarations and suppressed longgs But occa
sinally man win be found like this Chicago professor
who is practically Indifferent the most cases comes
in men who are more or less geniuses Xantippe roped
Socrates in early in the game the old would never
have married He saw his mistake afterward. but swa
lowed it. He was thinking too deeply and much to devote
much time to his wife as general thing and she made it
hot for him No wonder she soured. Love with that
master of all thoughts and student Of all emotions did
not cut superbundance Of ice for Shakespeare thought
so little OF its charms that he tied up with older
than himself Look too at Frederick the Great; at Ma
poIeon at Carlyle
The truth is that there ought be more men like the
Chicago professor to up and refuse mamony when they
know they are not by temperament fitted to love and
love seven days week and twelve months year and
eternally.
The congested divorce dockets the army Of abused
women in the world the growing contingent Of young
women who prefer life in commercial channels to hus
bands patiently prove that thousands Of who
have no business to marry; who capable Of loving
in the true sense Of the word know what love
is the placing into whose hands of sweetsoued little
woman the demands Of whose nature is eternal love- is
crime.
A man ought Ret to 90 to marrying until he is
that his affection is thing to dssipate at the
first furry Of adversely or to stray the ray pros
centered in the brain The nerve ends stimulated from
world If other passions supersede or overshadow it.
he should like the Chicago professor have Of it He
owes that much to society.