The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1907-09-14
WHY LOVERS LOVE

IheF9 has Doen EeceHtIy ihu0h o'sAA
about the above subject by the press OF
the country, the subject having been
opened by DR.. G. Stanley Hall, presi-
dent of Clark University, Worcester,
Mass. DR.. Hall has devoted has whole
life to the scientific study of adolescence
and is the highest auth ority in the world
on such subjects. In his discousres he
coufeses that he has learned little OF the
typical developments Of love. He
thinks that eight is the earliest age
in the male and six in girls, where love
really begins, though infantile forms Of
it is frequently seen in much younger
children.
He thinks that you can frequently
tell that love exists in the earlier forms
of life, because jealousy predominates
and philosophers and women OF ten say
that there can be no true love without a
modicum of jealousy.
DR.. Hall assumes that none of these
erogenic propensities in the smaller
children ever culminate in marriage, a
thing which ought to relieve the pare nts
of any anxiety and ought to abolish fe ar
from the schools where co-education is
practiced.
The erogenic physiognomy of either
sex is dwelled on by DR.. Hall who says
that physiognomy and physiology are
responsible for cupids pranks. The fea-
lures that stand out in prominence as
love inducers are as follows in points OF
Importance: eyes, hair, teeth, stature,
size, feet, brows, complexion, cheeks.
form of head, throat.
Some years ago Drew wrote a book
including schoolboy's sonnets to his
Dulcienna, containing altogether 300
poems, and out of all of them the lovers
raved over the eyes and hair, and said
nothing Of kisses.
Eight per cent of the young men are
susceptible to shopping shoulders, while
seven per cent of the women prefer
square shoulders, ten per cent of the
women prefer regular, and six per cent
prefer white teeth, while long lashe S
charm five per cent.
Passing to acts of person., the voice
has far greater number of preferences,
some lovers like high voice, while
some prefer low one, mode of laugh
comes next, and is prepotent, while car
riage, gait, gesture, movement, or roll
of eyes, poise of the head, and shoulders,
mode of tanning or of brushing back the
hair with the way of sitting or signing,
each have special prominence.
The following paraphernalia also have
advocates as erogenic producers: canes,
glasses, fur, teeth filled with gold, white
handkerchiefs, parasols, Pronounced
style in hats.
Love can include the whole soul and
body and the fact that woman is a
more generic being than a man closer
to the race and less mutilated by gener-
alizations, of by deformity of body and
soul makes it easier for man to see in
his chosen Helen the entire sex.
Marriage can now be, according to DIR
Hall, ideal infaible and imp ecable, with
out requiring any platonic supervision
of others.
The writer would like to add few
peculiarities that are not erog enic bu
rather ssMIsogenic,' if he is allowed t.
coin a new word. The following ar,
misogenic: Freckles, deform tiles O
limbs, obesity, skinniness, strabismus
badness in men, short hair in women
gum chewing, over-fondness for the
company of the opposite sex and man
ishness in women and feminity in man