Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-06-08
LET LOVERS ALONE.
Don't Make Game Of or Tease Them
May Spoil q Romance.

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May Spoil Romance.
That "aIl the world loves a lover" IL
an old and much-quoted saying, but II
the saying be true the affection surely
is manifested In singular fashion. In
dubitably all the world and his wife
take lively interest, which, unfortu-
nately, Is often more offlcious than dis
Greet in whatever they 80 much as sus-
pect may, can or will be a love affair,
and consider lovers fair game for all
manner Of teasing, surmises and some
] times impertinent inquiry.
If Johnny Jones walks home from
church with Susan Smith two Sundays
In succession he Immediately is sus-
pected Of a more than friendly feeling
for that young woman, tongues begin
to clack, John is rallied on his fancy for
Susan, while she Is bantered on his at
tentions to her. II Edwin and Angelina
meet half dozen times and he shows
the slightest disposition to talk to or
dance with her ever so little more than
with other girls, some, at least, Of their
mutual friends are certain to imagine
matrimonial intent upon his part, and.
still worse, to express the suspicion
more or less plainly to the person con-
cerned.
The probability Is that the young
man has no serious purpose; his atten-
tions merely are the casual consequence
Of a surface admiration for pretty
ard entertaining girl. Humanity Is
gregarious and social intercourse with
ones fellows is a natural necessity Of
all normal men and women. Nor is
the want so apt to be for solitude
a deux, with all which 1t implies, as
merely for companionship in the sense
of company and amusement-a want
which Is satisfied with the many as
well as with the one.
"It must be admitted that those who
doubt the possibility Of platonic af-
lection between two people Of opposite
sexes have good ground for their point
Of view. It is easy enough to begin
with friendship, but seldom is 1t that
in the case of both parties thereto 1t
remains as such to the end Of the
chapter. 1t may be the man who finds
that, all unconsciously, It has come to
pass that
Better than I love myself
Do I love my neighbor."
The woman for whom he processes
"platonic attachment" has become
the one and only woman in all the
world for him.
Or It may be the woman who finds
that what she has fondly imagined to
be friendship pure and simple Is the
strongest passion Of her being, that she
is deeply and unmistakably in love,
while her comrade remains on the plain
and prosaic highway Of friendship.
"And, oh, It is bitter pain
To love and not be loved again!"
Undeniably the chances are that one
or the other of the couple one day will
find that, though friendship may be
Q6llEutIul, NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Wdhtth6
to the full cup of happiness, that what
began as camaraderie has developed
into something stronger and tenderer
than any other love on earth.
The ways of friendship and love lie
too close, the boundary is too easily
overstepped for platonics safely to be
INDUCED in, at least by the young, in
whose veins the current of life and
love is strong and healthy, without the
risk that there some day will be an
aching void, an unsatisfied longing for
what might have been."
OF course, where both step hand In
hand into the primrose path" all is
we'll, and the two who gradually have
grown together become one in happy
harmony. Yes, platonics always are
dangerous; nevertheless, in spite Of
the risk, for not few men and women
they might be commendable and possi-
BILE were It not for the meddlesome in
reference of other people.-Chicago
Tribune.