Connecticut western news., 1907-10-10
WHAT "BUB" WROTE
''LOVE AND WHAT TO DO FOR IT.
Uncle Ezra Perkins Sends Bub's Es- say and asks is to Print it so Here It Is.
Pompoonick, Conn.

II IS.
 Pompoonick, Conn.
 Oktober the s, 1900 and : Deer Mir. Editur:
 Our Bub hez begun to studdy retter- lck at skool and 'tother day he had to rite an essay so he took "Love" for his toppick. It took so well among the folkes what wuz invited to the exersises that Mirandy sed I'd better send it down to you and let you print. She sez as how she knows you'll be glad of it as papers is always lookin' fer suthin' to fill up with. Bub he sketched it off in hurry but guess likely you'll be able to make 1t out.
 "LovE AND WHAT TO DO FOR IT"
 "Love is a itchin of the hart that can't be scratched. But they is sum people i'll this world who is offlicted with ra itching and imagines it is love whereas it ain't nothing worse than hives or scarlet rash. Love is something which only comes to person once in life time, but as rule once is often enough for any person that knows when they have had enough of anything. Some times you hear of a widder marrying a second time or of widower, vice versa, but that ain't no sign they be in love with one another-more likelier it's a sign that they think each other IS got money which they need to cheer the sundown of their lives for them.
 Love usually attacks boy or girl for the first time just about as soon as they get into their teens, but that's not the reglar article-that's nothing but puppy love and person who gets married ou that kind of love usually lives to regret it. When you see a young feller wash ing his face back any further than his ears, and keeping his coat buttoned up on the back of his head and dreamin of billed shirts and paper collars then you can bet that he is in love or thinks he is, which is almost as bad. Some fair face has come into his life and he has a hankerink to live with it even if he has to set up housekeepin' in a basement or henhouse or on a desert ile.
 Then again there are persons who think they are ill love and go and get spliced on the spur of the moment, but after they have had nine children and a mortgage on the farm it begins to draw on them that what they took for love was perhaps only a infatuashion, as you might say. We don't believe in love at first sight and never did. Love at hind sight IS blamed sight better and more liable to last. But as far as that is con- cerned there ain't any brand of love lex cept perhaps love for riches) that lasts any longer than it ought to. Most all kinds of love will wear off in spots after a spell espeshially if it sees much hard usage.
 l There is different kinds of love includ- ing "love your neighbor as yourself, ]" which is not very popular kind of love and ain't practised in Pompoonick and vicinnitty as much as it ought to be. Then there is the love of money which is the root of all evil, but everybody keeps grubbin after the root and won't give so much as a sprout away to any body else if they can help it. There is also the love of country, but Pompoonick citizens ain't afflicted with that so that it hurts them any. When the Spanish war broke out the citizens of Pompoonick seemed to have the same opinion that Hank Dewberry had. Hank said be calkilated he would stay at home being 1 as he would much prefer to be a living coward than dead hero"