The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1902-09-12
WAYS OF MEN IN LOVE
4 SCIENTIST HAS cATALocUEO THE
ACTS OF cUPlD's VICTIMS.

49, N"AAHHMN'# "AAAAN AfWHN - tAf"'Na
The long ago poetical phrase, "The
sportiveness of love-" assumes a fresh
Significance since Professor Karl
Gross evolved a guide book Of love
games and catalogued them into classes
and sections with erudite observations
upon the heads in general and enter
tanning tales by way Of specific in
stances.
Low games, says Professor Gross,
are chiefly four: Caressing games,
games Of self-exhibition, fighting
games, and games Of coquetry Sweet
hearts play caressing games because
they like to be near each other; they
play games of self-exhibition because
they wish each other to behold their
merits; they play fighting games be-
cause hey find it necessary sometimes
to fight to win each other or because
fighting is one method of displaying
their adorable qualities; they play CO
quetry games because they are made
coquettish and for no other reason in
the world.
Despite the fact that they have been
pursuing their games since time pre-
historic, and although they are sup
posed by those outside the enchanted
pale to be laughable alike in their COO
ing they have not decided upon a uni
versal pattern for their games Not
even the kiss is excepted when Pro-
fessor Gross propounds this interest
ing revelation, honored with supreme
glory by dreamy bards as well as by
intoxicated suitors. All children play
catch and hide and seek, no matter
whether they be the dainty scions Of
lordly Fifth avenue houses or sooty lit
tie beggaTs from South African novels
or heather Chinese, but when they are
grown and begin to learn the games of
love they each make up games of their
own fancy.
Perhaps the little play toying with
Insignificant objects is the nearest eX-
preston Of universally in love games
Of caressing. Even those berighted
peoples who have not discovered the
ecstasy of kisses enjoy this petty trif-
ling Of which the lovers in the Mill
on the Floss are a type. Kitty was do
ing her fancy work and asked Stephen
for the scissors, which were passed and
repasscd between them without the
least reason for doing SO, except the
proximity to which it led and the hand
ling of one object together 1t is the
trick of the boarding school hoyden--
and who shall say how many others of
the fair-to let her sh0estrings unite
so that the spruce STRIPPING who has
captivated her heart may have the op-
portunity of tying them again. TIE
dignifed Oriental Wooer who disdairs
the intimacy Of = kiss does not scorn
the delights Of examining the ornG-
ments worn by his beloved not only
with his eyes but his fingers.
The more naive the period or social
class, thinks Professor Gross, the more
common is this sort of play. At the
spinning fetes Of olden-time Europe
couple after couple sang spinning
song while their hands crept in and
about the spinning apparatus.
Plays Of seIf-eXhibition arise out OF
the lovers desire to present himself
in the most advantageous light posi-
bic before his loved one. With this
in view he plays a part. He acts as
though he were Drawer stronger, more
skillful, handsomer, of more delicate
feeling and keener intelligence than
he is actually and habitually. A com
ic paper once observed that a lover
always tries to be as lovable as possible
and hence always makes himself ri
diculous.
The lover not only has the aim II
view of pleasing his sweetheart but hi
also enjoys his little exhibitions fol
their own sake He appears to be look
ing on at himself, listening TO his owl
fairy tales, and enjoying his own par
aiding. When this is done to excess
his game is commonly known as flirt
ing.
One of the features of self-exhibi
ton are the contests of many swain
before their ladies' The old-time tour
naments, whose victors were given tn
privilege of browning their chosel
one as the queen Of love and beauty
are one Of the many examples. AM
man in a contest feels double stimula
lion to do his utmost when ladies ar
present. They have long learned tina
proves. and a martial bearing are ad
mired by the fair ones. This admira
ton is in part relic of the earle
form of lover-like exhibitions. TIL
Indians use their war paint and feath
ers primarily to delight the squaws.
In some tribes men do not dare t
marry, for no woman will have theI
until they have slain a number of foe