The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-09-28
A Safe Rule of Love
MAKE
BY s sow4aD A Fool of Yourself

sists on rehashing it to
all the girls he knows, and when he does
this he's simply idiotic. Others rush into
poetry and praise their seraph's eyebrows
in horrible verse which they insist on
publishing to the world. Others again
plunge every cent they possess into the
hire of fancy rigs and drive about the
streets in an open show of their folly,
while still others become bondmen of the
florist and fire huge masses of shrubbery
and flowers at their idols feet. Some
parade themselves at social functions
with the almost visible chain by which
they are led, and some sit off and sulk
and pout because, forsooth my lady fair,
chooses to tease by sparing some of her
rosy smiles to other pleading eyes.
Love is a cumulative storage battery
of folly, it's power growing with the
progress of the dis
EACH LOVER ease. Two young
BUT INCREASES men performed as
FOLLY'S LIST. horses in tandem in
fashionable city
the other day and the object of their
alteration was the driver. Another at a
ball was delighted to be bouquet holder
and all the evening lugged around an
armful of flowers sent by other adorerS.
One boating one got in the pond and
showed the boat because his charmer said
he didn't dare while in the mountains
one other risked limb and life to pluck
flowers from above a precipice because
liquid eyes had seen. LancelOt and his
rescue of his lady's glove from the lions
den is a romance babbled oft. But why
enumerate the list of loves folly. 1t is
as lengthy as the years can make and its
variety is as changing as the fertile mind
of coCuetry can make it. 1t is the eX-
travaganZa of the tootsie-wootsie order,
and it will increase with the days each
fresh victim finding some new and I'M
trodden path in which to prove that rea-
son and love are not even nodding ac-
quaintances.
And the upshot of the whole matter is
what? the idle reader asks. 1t is that
love is blind to its own
EVER OLD folly and that the on
AND YET IT'S locker gets the amuse-
EVER NEW. ment while the actors
in the play possess the
signs. And yet it is pleasant and the old,
old story, with its first chapter written
in the infancy of the ages when Adam
and Eve were
1.-TWO souls with but single thought
Two hearts that beat as one"
will ever be whispered by trembling lips
into ears that rejoice, and the foolish
ness of love will in the future, as in the
past, be the sweet tie that makes the
morning light longed for that it may
bring to us again the features of the sun
shine of our affections. and beneath the
slvery moon there is yet to be whisper
ed thousands on thousands of tender
nothings that are the stock in trade OF
lovers.
"All the world loves a lover" even if
all the world laughs in keen enjoyment
of his folly, and all
WE SIDE STEP the world rejoices
FOR OTHERS when it beholds the
TO COME ON. mating of those at
whom it has jibed and
from whom it has received so much to
drive away its lines of care. Be it at
the seashore or the mountain, in summer
or in winter, let the belle rejoice in her
conquest and if these must parade their
folly let it go forward for it is the
brightness of life that comes but for
season. Advancing years steady and
sober the widest and most bizarre ex-
ponents of the follies of love, and these
side step from the position of chief actors
and become the onlookers, while the hot
blood of youth, coursing in vivacious
streams. impels others to take up the re-
frain and to sing the song which has
made joyous other lives and to have their
fill of all of the happiness which comes
to those who find that love and foolish
ness are close of kin, and are the hertz
age of the human race.