Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-07-18
THE SCIENCE OF LOVE
Established for First Time by
Psychologist Bell.
INFANCY TO OLD AGE
"GRANDE PASSING" BEGINS AT
TWO AND A HALF.
Woman's Passive Role Exaggerated by
Society-"Spring" Idea
TO OLD AGE
Copyright. 1903. by John Elfreth Watkins. IT,

Copyright. 1903. by John Elfreth Watkins. IT,
Written for The Evening Star
And now 1t comes to pass that Cupid
himself has fallen victim to the child
study enthusiasts Our artful little god
of love has been caught mapping and
scooped UP in the net of the new psychol-
ogy.'
Just now In the full glow of loves warm
season, not "a jot for any of the
sciences, unless. forsooth, it be the science
of love itself. And the truth Is that since
Cupid has been entrapped and carried off
to the pedagogical laboratory we are. for
the first time, to have a serious and pro
found science of the grande passion
The ingenious savant who has thus eff
fected the capture of the willy son Of
Venus Is Sanford Bell, fellow in Clark
University and late teacher of pedagogy
and psychology in the Northern Indiana
Normal School, at Valparaiso Based upon
strictly scientific studies, as extensive as
they are original. he is preparing II com
prehensive treatise on the psychology Of
love.
THE emotion of love between the sexes
has as Yet received no scientific treat
ment,' says he 1T Is true that 1T has
been the chosen theme of the poet, ro-
mancer and novelist But in the products
of such writer's we may look for artistic
descriptions of the emotion and for scenes
and incidents that very fully portray Its
nature. we have no right to expect
scientific analysis.
This psychologists love studies were COM
menced fifteen years ago he states. Tx
tended and varied experience in pupllc
schools has in that time furnished him with
very favorable opportunities for making
observations upon children allowed to mix
freely regardless of sex.
During the last fifteen years from time
to time | have collected many as 500
cases observed by myself he says. I'm
addition to these, | have LOO cases as re-
turns from "a syllabus which 1 circulated
among tn" students in my pedagogy ana
psychology classes at the Northern Indiana
Normal School
This syllabus was n printed list of ques-
tions calling upon persons for data con-
cerung love affairs observed between chill
dren and also for personal confessions con-
corning the childish love affairs Of many
adults. In all $50 people reported data, 800
of whom made confessions of their own
Juvenile love experiences. Only five out OF
the 800 failed to recall any rOmances in
their own early childhood. Putting all of
his data together, the psychologist obtained
$50 cases, which form the bass of his
careful study
The most striking deduction which he
makes is that affairs of the heart between
boys and girls may begin early as the
age of two and one-half years His o1ser-
vations extend over the entire periods OF
infancy and childhood as we'll as into ma
ture age.
Five Stages OF Love.
The imperial bard divided the life of man
into seven ages, only the third of which he
assigned to the lover Psychologist Bell
gives man five stages OF love for the oppo-
site Sex including not only the age of the
infant but also that Of
second childishness and mere oblivion.
Sans teeth. sans eyes. sans taste sans
everything"
Thus he makes the lover embrace all seven
ages of the Shakespearean classifica ton.
and leads TO the conclusion that are
never too Old and seldom too young to ex-
per'encc the delights and pains OF the
tender emotion.
Mans and woman's five stages of love do
not run in lines parallel or synchronous.
Mans stages are:
|. From to 8.
II. From = to IA.
III. From Ii to % (maturity).
". From % ia Old age.
Y. Extending through old age
Woman's stages are
| Same as mans first stage.
II. From to L.
III. From - to 20 (maturity)
~. From 80 to old age.
V. Same as mans fifth stage
1t will be seen from these tables that a
girl may be AZ advanced in affairs of the
heart at the ag, of lively. as a boy is at
tn" age of fourteen: that the maturity of
W"man's heart Is rcache! at Twenty-Five
Of man not hrf"r" twcnty-four
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