Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-03-20
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WHY NOT MARRY FOR HATE?
A Happy Result Just as Likely to Fol-
low, Argues a Philosopher.


low, Argues Philosopher.
There is the love marriage, the mar
riage of convenience and the mar
rage for wealth. Why not the hate
marriage?
Hate, it is said by innumerable
wiseacres, is akin to love. II is Just
AS healthy q sentiment, anyway, and
is just as much out OF the ordinary
run of human feelings toward each
other as is the more popular love.
People fall in hate with people in
just the same way as they fall in Iove.
Every one is fitted up with a sort of
electric battery, which is attracted, re-
pulsed or unaffected by contact with
other bodies. In the Jaw of affection
AMI dislike they obey rule common
TO everything that moves attraction
and repulsion
Love is the force OF attraction in
human beings. Men meet few people
that they love, for the simple reason
that there are only limited number
of persons in the world who are sus-
ceptile to a particular kind of electri-
up OF a different voltage" as it we're
Some people are tuned up high, and
accordingly encounter more objects of
attraction than those who are only
guaranteed to a limited number of
revolutions.
The high-reading lover, therefore.
draws more objects to him than the
low-reading one. He is a sort of
magnet Tor rowing atoms. and his love
affairs are accordingly numerous.
They DO not, as a rule. last long, for
the reason that fresh atoms continue
TO graVitate toward him, each in turn
suppianting the other. The low reading
lover has less active kind OF electri-
city. With him it is the few who are
attracted toward him Sometimes
only one body is SO attracted in a life
time. When attracted. of course. this
body stands a much greater chance of
permanence than with the man of
many attractions
There are, further, men and women
OF comparatively no love electricity.
These people go through life either
without love attachments, or those for
which we hold Plato rseponsibie-at
fractions of mind and temperament
rather than of passion
But to come to the hate eIectr1c,ry.
HaterS are strung up by a sort of
electrical meter, just as lovers. There
Is good. all-around hater, who hates
most people. He is the high-reading
hater. Instead of attracting other
bodies by irresistible force, he re-
pulses them, and they scatter to the
winds on contact with him. There is
the low-reading hater, who takes
genuine and lasting dislikes, which he
eherishes to the end of his life. He
only hates a few people. but those he
really hates.
Then there is the last. or non-hater
tie repulSes nobody at all, for he has
not the repulsive electricity He is
merely Indifferent to other bodies.
they do not scatter on his approach,
nor do they gravitate toward MIN.
They Just remain as they are. If he
hates. be hates according to the same
Plato. Platonic hate, like platonic
love, springs from the mind rather
than the heart. He hates others be
cause he does not like their opinions
about the war or certain brand of
cigars. 1t is not the passionate form
OF hate at all. which is just as re,
spectacle thing as love. and really
not properly appreciated by loving
generation.
lt is not platonic hate that should be
consummated by marriage. II is mas.
sionate hate. Do you really and gen.
timely hate any women. o nv male
reader? And do you, fair one. really
hate any man? If so, then depend on
it there is something common TO Won
both that might be the best canTtaI in
hand you could have for starting in q
Joint matrimonial business.
Love marriages seldom lasr The
passion Of ones counting days cannot
De sustained all through life. There
are one or two cases extant of sucn 9
state OF affairs. but the passion in the
hrst instance has never been deep. I,
has probably had a good deal of DIa
tonic uncture about it at the start.
me IDEAL love marriage is one
which, when the early passion sub
sides, develops into mutual liking d;
sharing OF common tastes. and a suit
aoiiiV Tor each other These mar
riases are generally the most success