Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1905-03-16

Copyright, 1905, by Joseph b. BowIes)
Three young women and two young
men have recently inquired rather in
tensely concerning the symptoms of
love.
Sometimes | think l 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 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
moLths together: but as for this &c
static condition in which a girl seems
perfect, | never have had it-and so
| suppose l have never been actually
in love. | 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 NV wifa tO he So "
There is a reasonable youth for
yo,l! But, listen. Here is girl who
is quite as exacting:
There is a young man who comes
often to see me. He is sho"t-and
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
oLen the door or get 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.
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 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,
coll
like him again"
A young woman who has recently
become happily engaged to be married
has a younger sister who, though af-
fectionate, loves to tease.
One evening at a reception, though
both of these blissful engaged young
people we're present, the young man
could not find his fiancee. 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 anXiously
pNered into the distance.
The young sister was merciless to
him.
IL gOu hou lCu4Ly pCCh III iOFN WAN
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 near her"
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 sanCy
sister. AS he saw her he gave an in
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 us charitably suppose un-
consciously. But | begin to see that
love may be awakening in your heart
Only next time do not recklessly try
to hold on by my sash.