The evening world., 1912-02-07
IS Love DISEASE?
ASKS DR.. brown,
BRITISH EXPERT
He Writes of a Machine to
Cure the Distemper
Cupid Causes.
SYMPTOMS DESCRIBED.
II You're Restless and Don't
Know VIVA, AIS You,
You've Got 1t.
SYMPTOMS DESCRIBED.
MWsuerite Mooers Marshall.

MW0uerite Mooers Marshall.
M ooth!ns new for a god to be be-
hiad . machine. blu, who ever heard OF
. machine behind a god7 Yet that is
~ inpious suggestion of William
1soWo. n. A.. d. &c.. who in the cur
M Aumber Of the Strand Magazine
1>oeussss tho question. rs Love O Dis
saoof" DR.. Brown concludes that II fire.
eusnuy Is. and that the little god Cupid
ohevA be subjected to tho stern dlsci-
vaans OF the ps~ycho-analysis apparatus.
But drst as to the nature of love. DR..
Browns analysis seems not to differ
y extraordinarily from certain widely
AeA notions. Love-" he tells us. lis
S1tremely complex and to this complex
~ + mainly owes its strength. But 1t
= not . complex emotion. slnce II is not
- emotion at all. When a man Is In
i0vo his feelings In relation to his Idol
vagy from day to day. and even from
AeaP 70 hour, according to changing
Greumstancss.
COME OF THE FEELINGS OF A
MAN IN LOVE.
s13a feels 10Y and lender emotion In
her presence. sorrow In her absence,
anxiety when adversely threatens her.
anger toward those who do or attempt
aAy harm to her. gratitude Cat least
In certain cases) toward those who be-
friend her-and many other emotions
In other circumstances His love con-
sists of a complex system of emotional
dispositions centred about the Idea of
he loved one. Out OF all the various
possible ideas. only those are selected
and retained in memory which support
the lovers high opinion of the excel
lcncies OF his beloved. Her faults and
deficiencies are not merely overlooked
they literally ARE NOT. for him. For
this reason the ancients represented
Love with bandaged eyes.
"A companion passion to love Is
that OF hate continues DR.. Brown.
THE relation between them Is a
very close one. IN fact, the emo
tional dispositions which go to make
up these two passions are almost
Identical. There Is a fascination in hate
lust as there Ia a fascination in love:
In both cases the attention Is !ntently
Oxed upon the object. This fact Will
b found to explain in outline most OF
those mysterious cases where love turns
into ate. There may be continued os-
citation from one passion to the other.
LOVE AND CONTEMPT A COM.
MON COMBINATION.
Another paradoxical combination Is
that Of owe and contempt. Yet 1t Is
coumon-alas! all too mmo And II
10 toierably easy to explain in terms OF
the evolution theory. The love corre-
sponds to the conservation OF the race:
the contempt to that of the individual
who feels that he or she has. from an
sSoistio potut OF View. made . bad
match.
'Ttnaiiy. there IS the problem Of jsal-
ou0y. some psychologists explain 1t In
tsyas Of love, but this Is not entirely
convincing. The two states OF mind are
ciAsely related INC indeed almost I'm
vaSiAbay found together. Many a woman
t1Gt1nctvely refuses to believe thai her
U1eeS can BE- in earnest unless he dis
uaayu jealousy On appropriate occasions.
In many cases outraged OF owner
- would sssm 70 be Q sufficient ex'
laanseoa.
syho 0loiog5cal explanation Of jealousy
- OBVIOUS: IT. psychological i~nadeauacy
= 80 obvious. We cannot explain It or
s1yonAa Il away. Let US endeavor ia
mAAs Away With It! No vermiform ap-
pGnolx y half % useless"
pRoooos OF FALLING IN LOVE
DESCRIBED.
man Dr.. Brown gives a careful de-
sae1pt1en Of ''the process of falling in
lsva."
'Nfter tho three preliminary stagei
Of edmiration. the attraction OF pleasure
and hope. there occurs a capitalization
Of manifold new perceptions discovered
by the lover ir his mistress. which en-
dows her with all the char a cterist!cs OF
the ideal as far as may be. The next
stage 10 that OF doubt. when reason
raises its head ana threatens to inter-
vens. II this painful state OF uncer'
tainty Is safely passed a second 'erys'
.~aliization' occurs. similar to the first IN
nature. but of much greater potency
The lover submits TO his fate, and the
whole tide OF his l!fe sets toward this
one goal. The passion Is completely
established.
"These stages" the doctor adds. may
not be-, In fact seldom are, apparent "a
the person concerned, lie may not be-
aome aware OF what Is wrong with HIN
until the passion has reached rs t1l
development. TAe experienced onlnoEei
Is generally not 50 bllnd.
I'VE are left d.. Brown then asserts
with the striking Resemblance "hicf
owe presents to certain forms or men
tai disease. PeSides the fixed ida,
there Is tine period Of Y~ncp1at.on,' dur
'rg which the individual docs not kno"