The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-10-12

in his claim that he IS altogether in the right and the young woman totally wrong. T asserted 1t as fact ne writes, that it Is according to the dic- tates of nature hat a woman should love one man, and him only, as long as ne lives; that she is not tempted either by circumstances or temperament to turn to other men, but that men are differ ently constituted and that they can with out breach of loyalty, or even violation of stability, love more than or-;e and in varying degrees"
 The young man takes 1t as a hardship that his sweetheart should combat this view. Tt is not" he continues, that I love any other girl, as she well knows. but it hurts me to see her so narrow and so blind to the truth"
 There was once a husband who held to this same creed. His wife was not hap py In an hour of bitterness she uttered the warning:
 Let husbands know their wives have
 sense and Smell.
 And have their paaltes both for sweet
 and sour,
 As husbands have. What Is it that they do When they change us for others? Is 1t
 sport?
 I think it is, and doth affection breed 1t? I think it doth: ist frailty that thus errs? It is so, too; and have we not affections. Desires for sports. and frailty, as men
 have?
 Then let them use us well; else let them
 know
 The ills we do. their ills instructs us so."
 Men and women are human beings, sub ject pretty much to the same desires, h.y ha iyn thaSp days. pretty even in regard to their outer circumstances. However. 1t is a condi- tion. not theory, that confronts two young persons who have confessed mu- tual love. It each is sincere, in that there is small profit in theorizlng over the respective characteristics of men and women in general. It would be better for them to go out and hunt a flat and then devote their mental energies to mak- ing their income pay its expenses The chances are that neither will have much time to give to argument and specula- tion, and that the question of whether men and women are alike or unlike will be of far less importance than whether coal is going to rise or fall in price.
 Brothers and Sisters.
 "I think women are dreadful" is the verdict of the sister of a bachelor. They have no self-respect. It is scandalous to see how they pursue my poor brother, in- vading his home and even going to his office, until he has no peace. He doesn care for any of them. but I'm dreadfully afraid that one of them is going to get him to marry her just by making him think that her heart will break if he doesn't" This sister has an experience that is all too common to affcctionate and jealous sisters. Brothers are prey to nd vEtdnyVG nfa in wait for just such game. They care rothing for men who are not brothers. and a brother usu9lly Is so much more guileless than other men. You may sus- pect a man who has no sister of pur- suing a girl, but the man with a sister is always pursued by the girl, and she almost invariably Is one devoid of merit It is a cruel fatuity, and sisters are en- titled to more sy y-npathy than they re- ceive. There are two courses open to her. She may seek out desirable girls and endeavOr to supplant the other, and by putting there girls that would make good wives and sisters-in-law in their brothers way, or she may lessen her anxiety by neglecting her brothers in- terests and devoting herself to catching some othar sisters brother. The trouble with the former plan Is that brothers seldom like the girls their sisters do, and the advantage of the latter Is that one gains a husband and makes some other sisters worry.
 My husband is a bright man. Every one says so Perhai-J you will say 1 ought to be grateful for that, and be proud of him. but have you ever tried to live with a scntillating human being I don't think anything on earth can be more trying. His friends say I have no sense of humor, but I had before I mar ried him. They pity my husband because he has to waste so much wit on clod. I know that my countenance is most lugbrious when he is getting of his most