The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-02-03

%E@HERE is n o more adcal difference in character between men
women than that which lies in their comparative ability to low moro
Mon, o al least the vast majority Oft them, since III rules have exceptions.
and o two people are exactly alike. ar Mormons at heart Scientists tell us
that everyh human being is dual in spirit, the Ego and l. the John and the
Jack and, moreover, that this popularity is more strongly marked in mon
a ma may love two women at the anne time n with on side of ais char
and the other with the other side. -
Man loves little and often, women much and rarely" and this, dispute 1t
WILL is j. the main true A woman may be fond Of excess of dmration,
count all as fish which to her net but it is rarely the cset that she
is at all in doubt as to her preference among the catch. True she may not
care a heart throb or a single on of her admirers, nut that being the cse
masters certainly OF 1t the same time, she surely will hate the and
cleave to the other although her womans wit may enable her to dhsemble
her hatred, a task far easier, by the way than to conceal her devotion.
How happy I could be-with either,
Were tother dear charmer away"
is a flhitous pictureo of the masculine attitude in lovemakng. There are II
number of men III apparently find n 0 difficulty in loving a dozen or SO
maj 10 pay court to them me at a time. The society of n one Of them
is sufficiently pleasant to him to Danish all thought of the rest 1t is need
less to say that such affection is neither deep no lasting; out of sight ot
of mind" and that a heart porioned out among sc man cannot give much
to the participants thereof but the gentle m moderate affection is genuine 50
far as itNgoes. Nor is the man greatly to blame; the tendency is tenpera-
mental rather than otherwise Few people, men or women, are capable of n
great passion, nor are these few always to be envied. A great passion easily
and those who possess adaptable affections are possibly fortunate rather than
the contrary In this world people with strong feelings usually sup more sors
row than JOY, and the placid, commonplace person rs the m who gets tn
most real comfort II of life.
Somebody has said that the general lover is like a la who snatches re-
this al nfehcrous comparison. The general lover undoubtedly gains much
and varied experience and has some fun, but it is open to question whether he
friuHred his affection away on passing fancies for many days, he att last nay
find a love that calls forth the deeper and higher part OF his nature, and take
from flower to lower he never will earn o love- but become cynical and
lose faith III women as a whole Besides a nan of this stripe easily is de-
the tender, half expressed sentmentahtes the pretty turned compliments
which trip Sc readily ron his tongue bef4y' the fact that he has "ben there
before should he be in earnest 1t is dhcultl o convnc ne of his
The general loversalso ma ind it dldcmt to obey the maxim regarding
the old love and the new. When le fam would part with a smile n a bow,
he may find tears and reproaches. and being a good natured fellow who never
meant ito cause pain he feels himself a brute