, 1907-08-08

minated in happy wedlock. From ages eight to fourteen boys and girls
show another form of juvenile love. Thus boyville and girldom reenact
in pantomime a loveife that was old when history began.
The order of points specified as most admired in the other sex by the
young lei and women in their teens is as follows: Eyes, hair, teeth,
stature and size feet, brows, complexion, cheeks, form OF head, throat,
ears, chin, hands, neck, nose, nails, and eve fingers and shape Of face.
In Drews census of 1856 love poems of college students eyes and hair also
lead where kisses ire often unreal and dreams fapcied. Charms of hands,
specialized destinations.
Eight per cent. of the young men are susceptible to soping shoulders;
seven per cent of the girls specify broad shoulders; ten per cent favor
regular and SIX per cent. white teeth; long lashcs charm five per cent. OF
the young men; long, clean o pink finger nails ire often given; arched
eyebrows among girls find a special susceptibility in four per cent. of the
youths, while cowHcks charm three per cent.
Often the specialization of taste and preference lay great stress upon
the color of the hair or shape of the hands o r fingers. A nose slightly
retrousse, a long neck, prominent eyes, dimples, and even freckles have
special erogenic power.
Passing to movements II acts, the voice has far the greater number of
preferences. Some are affected by a high, some by a low voice. The rB-
ing infection, cearness, hexibilty, a lisp, special intonations, accents, or
even dialects ire often prepotent. Mode of laughing comes next, while
carriage, gait, gesture, movement or roll of the eyes, poise of the head
ard shoulders, mode of tanning, us of handkerchief, holding the dress,
way of sitting or signing, may each have a special preeminence.
In dress or toilet, hair leads, and length, mode of parting, dress
ing, curling or bows arc detailed. Rings bracelets and ribbons come next,
with the girls; and with the boys clothes that fit, especially those at the
shoulders and waists. Canes, glasses, fur, collars, teeth filled with gold,
clean linen, white handkerchief, pronounced style in hats, and even para
soils, mode of wearing watch chains, style of collars, frzzes, or coils, neat
ness-all have adherents.
Love ca include the whole body and soul. The fact that a woman
is a more generic being than man, closer to the race and less mutlatcd by
specifications Or by deEormity of body or soul, makes it easy for la to
see in his chosen Helen the entire sex.
Marriage al now be ideal, infalible and impecable, without requir-
ing any platonc supervision of elders. Each sex is conscious of its own
good points, but still more e of those of The other. Life which has here
tofore been partial, provisional and preparatory 10Y becomes complete in
mutual, spiritual appropriation and mastery.
Without children love is incomplete. If woman is not satisfied and
grows mannsh and assumes the functions of the other seq as her right. it
is because man is a failure. The fact that love centralius the soul to the
influences of nature makes it a generic factor in the evolution of art, lit
erature, material religion and, to son extent, science.