Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1906-06-07

L Nht tldsllt V,
tneir affection. A woman, as a rule,
is in love with but one man At a t,mo
ohe may hold and pactive the ancient
doctrine of her sex that the more
strings to her bow, or beaux TO her
string, the better. Admiration NAV be
TO her as the breath of her nostrils ant
she may care as little for the sufferings
of her victims as an enthusiastic ang.
Ter does for those of the trout which
it is his delight to play and capture.
She even may doubt seriously which
of two men she would better marry.
but it is seldom, if ever, that she does
not prefer one of them to the other,
that she is not aware fully of her
preference. Indeed, it safely may be
said that no woman ever really AM
truly loves more than one man at once
| and the same time, and when the "not
impossible he" appears upon her hor
izon he dwarfs all other men in her
eyes and reigns, for the hour at least
her king and master. True, the wo
man may change, and often does so.
Few things, not even mutual and ten.
der love, endure forever in this world
of change. Love dies, like other things
and
Not to the dead may the living cling,
Nor kneel at an empty shrine.
The king is deadl Long life the king,
Who rules by power divine!"
But though one king may cease to
reign and another monarch rule in his
stead the kingdom, having once ten
doed allegiance, is loyal while he oc-
cupies the throne. 1t has passed in.
to a proverb that woman who loves,
loves much and rarely; she may trans
fer her affections, but she does not
scatter them, a little here, a little
there.
On the contrary, although there are
many exceptions to the rule, most men
are Mormons at heart, and apparently
find no great difficulty in loving two
or dozen women simultaneously. The
sailor with q sweetheart in every port,
who yet claimed that "his heart was
true TO Poll,' was a fiction strictly
founded upon fact. Bigamy in every
land where it is legal offense also
is a usual one. And that not only
among the masses;" every now and
then society is startled by the discov-
cry that some man Of wealth and high
repute, who has seemed a devoted hus-
band and father, has played the same
role to another woman and her child
rem
AS for the number of men who, Is
sachar like, crouch between two bales
of hay, it is such as cannot be counted
The dilemma of the poet Gay:
"How happy I could be with either
Were t'other dear charmer away"
had nothing novel in it then, and his
sentiment finds a ready response in
the hearts of many men today. Most
people. whether men or women, have
more or less dual nature, and some
men especially have so many sides to
their characters such as they are, that
they NAV be said to be faeeted. There,
moreover, are some men who forever
are falling in love, or what they think
ia love. Every time such a man sees
pretty girl he proceeds to fall heaG
over heels in love with her. lie ad'
mires almost every passably attract
i've young woman whom he sees, and Is
always making love with no serious IN
tentions whatever or intentions that
are serious for the moment only.
But men who are less susceptible TO
the charm of femininity not infrequent-
" meet two women who appeal sim
ultaneously, more or less strongly to
the two sides of their dual nature
When this happens the man p'ooaoly
will be in a veritable quandary. lie
has artistic tastes, he is fond Of music
ba raads and likes 10 talk about what
ba has read. He meets a woman VINO
shares these tastes, who participates
in them with intelligence and pleasing
sympathy. They make love in poetie
quotations, her singing delights nis nis
soul and his pulses quicken as tnei'
hands meet over their favorite Vo',
nmes He feels that life with her wouiJ
bs "forever one glad, sweet song
that her sympathy and appreciate"
would stimulate him to better endeaVo'
and render him capable Of great
things. - ;.
But. alas he is not strong enough 70
- nm 10 her level, and be meet :
,i..i, Mamie who il ready 70 love