Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-03-16
L0vES|CK SYMPTOMS
MAIDENS AND YOUTHS WANT
SIGNS AND WONDERS.
Exacting Demands of Some Youths
and NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Not to Be
Found in This World - Love
"Thrills"-Some Safe Rules-"No-
body Can Love You Properly Who
Does Not Love Honor More"

Copyright, 1905, by Joseph E. Bowles)
Three young women and two young
men have recently inquired rather in
tensely concerning the symptoms of
love.
Sometimes I think / am in love-"
said one. "a day or two later | am
convinced that | am not. | see so
many faults in the one for whom |
supposed that | cherished a deathless
affection that l doubt it's reality, and
conclude that | had better keep away
from her.
Another, in a similar strain, says
that he has heard a great deal about
that state Of mind, or soul, in which
the adored object seems simply per
feet" He admits that he has liked
certain girls, and has run the risk
of making a nuisance of himself by
haunting their homes two or three
times each week, for sometimes
months together: but as for this &C.
static condition in which a girl seems
perfect, | never have had it-and SO
l suppose l have never been actually
in love. l can see that she talks
louder than l would like to have my
wife talk. Or that she is careless
about her hands-and l could never
abide a wife who did not keep her
hands perfectly. Or she laughs too
much. Or she is not religious-and,
though l am not religious myself, l
want my wife to be So"
There is a reasonable youth for
you! But, listen. Her" is a girl who
is quite as eXacting:
There is a young man who comes
often to see me. He is Shorthand |
had set my heart on marrying a tall
man. But | could put up with that
if he would only jump more quickly
to pick up things that | drop-or to
open the door or get a chair for me.
There are often three or four young
men in the parlor when l come down
and this young man lets the others
do all the little things for me. l
have purposely given him chances to
hand me a book or paper, or look up
a word in the dictionary or pass
me a wrap-but every time it is an
other man who takes the trouble for
melville he calmly waits. OF course,
he has to do it, when we are alone to-
gether-but he does it in a way which
seems to say: You make a great deal
of bother l have heard that he is
lazy and selfish. When | think OF this,
hate him. But when he comes again,
and | see his face and hear him talk,
| like him again-and think | should
be wretched if l thought he were not
coming any more"
These young people who are looking
for perfection will have to wait for
another world. They may make up
their minds that it is not to be found
in this. The only question seems to
be which faults and whose faults can
you overlook most easily.
A young woman who has recently
become happily engaged to be married
has a younger sister who, though al
fectionate, loves to tease.
One evening at a reception, though
both of these blissful engaged young
people were present, the young man
could not find his fiancee. She saw
him looking for her, but mischievously
stood laughing and talking with her
friends in a group slightly apart from
the others, determined that she would
not help him inshis search. With that
singular obtuseness which sometimes
accompanies a too great earnestness
he passed the group two or three times
without seeing her-his gaze every
time rowing past her, as he a%nxiously
peered into the distance.
The young sister was merciless to
him.
IF you had really been in love with
her." she laughed, you could never
have passed her in that way. You
ought to have had a thrill, or some
thing, which would have told you
when you were neal her. Oh, you
needn't explain. | have read the pa
pers. There is certainly some sort of
subtle internal culver or perturbation
which people who are truly in love
have when the beloved object is near"
A few days later at a large wedding
the beloved object" as a member of
the nuptial party, Unexpectedly passed
up the aisle near which the young
man was sitting beside the saucy
sister. As he saw her he gave an il
voluntary start.
That is it!' his tormentor assured
him. Then you had the thrill. 1t
nearly finished the sash of my best
white gown, which you grasped as you
thrilled-let lis charitably suppose I'M
consciously. But | begin to see that
love may be awakening in you heart.
Only next time do not recklsssly try
to mold on by my sash. The sensation
is said to resemble that Of drowning
and you probably felt yourself to be
s%inking-but your friends should be
warned. The attack might come on
when there is a sash of tulle or chiffon
around-when it would certainly be
torn to shreds."
There may be something in this
Hively young woman's contention. But
not every soul, in this utilitarian age,
is capable Of thrills. Others do not
recognize them when they occur. The
thrill is hardly a safe and sure guide.