Morris tribune., 1911-10-13

No man knoWeth the hour when
signing poets first lisped verses to
the vain God Love. High brows have
vainly striven to gather the secret of
his fascinating arts and essayists have
dragged quill through weary reams.
to come at last to the vexing question,
"What is Love?"
Love is a madness.
From the cradle each little girl is
lead to believe that some wondrous
knight will some day thunder at the
citadel of her heart and demand an
entry. Each little boy is dragged
up to manhood with the haunting fear
that. somewhere, there is some nifty
pullet waiting for him to finance her
future.
All of this preamble merely leads
gently to an incident which fell with
in range of the editorial optic recent
ly. 1t seems that summer resort is a
dangerous place for an unattached
male at any time. Just now is an
especially bad time since lot of
spring millinery bills are due.
The other day we were SIN oking a
friends cigar out at one of the lakes
and enjoying the damp fshy wind
from the water. In the party were
a bevy OF spinsters running all the
way from broilers to antiques. There
were also maverick men.
Thinking it might prove interest
ing to see a campaign or two. we
watched cupid marshal his battalions.
There was an insane sort of man
present, who parted his hair every
Thursday and had soulful eyes. wore
a black bow tie and was said to possess
much scads. The timid, shrinking
eye of Miss Eighteen-or Twenty lit
upon him and knew him at once as
her future meal ticket. He of the soul
full eye knew not that fate had him
nailed to rock and that Cupid was
poking love darts at him.
The first he knew of it was when he
jerked Miss Eighteen-or Twenty out
of the lake. That evening the moon
helped some. There's something pow
erful fetching to a girl in hammock
a several p. m. with the moon lurking
among the tree tops and the soft
whisperings of evening in the air.
He looked at her as if fascinated,
lost the trail of his story of his early
life and began to humble and jabber.
Coyly she viewed him beneath the
loveliest of lashes and shook enticing
perfumes from a 'kerchief prepared
for the purpose.
He lost his head completely and
in thirty seconds was a goner. She
had him roped, snubbed and branded.
AS soon as the discreet chaperones dis
covered in mock dlsmay the lateness
Of the hour, she rushed off to confide |
in her sisters in arms. He took a |
stroll along the lake, trife dazed,
out happily figuring some way of |
1erding together enough dollars to buy
a sparkler.
The next day he ambled around
With the sheepish expression of Towser
taught in the hen coop, while she |
wore wistful, far away expression
md blushed rosily whenever his name |
vas mentioned.
Of course they Travelled up the main
isle together and all of US were ON
and with cut glass and silver ware.
He never was out of debt in his
ife while he was a bachelor and she
new as much about making bread
5 hen does about the Doxology.
Of course there was lot of advice
bout marrying in haste and repent
ng at leisure. It seems that fell
ow has mighty little leisure after he
) married to repent or regret. He's
90 busy foraging.
Verify, love is madness! i
But in lots of cases it seems to sat-
sfy the participants alright for mat
imony is getting to be very general
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