The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-09-20
There Arc Five Of These Rid
dies, Running the Gamut
Of Love From the Grand
, Passion of Men and WOm-
. en- to the Petty Amour and
! the S0-Called PlatOnic AT.
fection-Jealousy, Too, Is
Considered. and Its Dire
Effect ON Most Beautiful
Of Emotions Is Described.
az N,xcLA GREELEY. SMITH.


Here are tho five riddles OF the
human heart: Cd What is love-
ca Which loves morc--man or ~om-
an" %, How many kinds Of love are
there" % Does love exist without
jealousy? t') Is platonic love possible
between man and woman
These conundrulns concerning the
most beautiful Of human emotions are
asked aud answered in The Book Of
Love q translation into English OF
the celebrated treatise in Italian by
rac'a Mantcsaz2a.
Every now and then some distin-
Euishcd foreign visitor confidcs to an
American interviewer that we know
nothing of love in this country. And it
may have been compassion for our
supposed ignorance which led Andrea
dc Sc;-uroIa. famous baritone of the
Metropolitan opera house, to interest
himself in the publication in English
cf The Book of Love- issued by the
American Neo Latin library Of which
lie is the founder.
There arc passages in The Book Of
Love" which would not appeal to the
American reader. In our young Coun
try love itself is young. 1t has the
ardor. the ilnpatiencc the cruditics,
perhaps. thai belong with the spring
time OF the heart.
Love. as MdnieGa2za understands IL,
will seem to many Americans love in
its JotaSc. They will scorn the sem
ilitics of sentiment as interpreted by
the Italian ANALYST of sex, but his
book is sure to interest. if not con-
vince thcnl nevertheless.
Like Chemical Reaction.
Love" according to Mantcgazza,
is the combination of two dissimilar
atoms which seek each other and
combine, notwithstanding all the ad-
verse forces Of heaven and earth. In
the same manner as the molecule of
potassium snatchcs the oxygen away
from water with q great development
OF light and heat. the love Of those two
n,oleculc. which we call man and
woman is accompanied by u hurricane
Ut feeling. by flashes of genius by in
finite glittering of flames and ardor.'
Women are the high priestesseS Of
love" the analyst of passion Contin.
uee. Woman loves more than man
but she foresees. presurmises. fears
In love. too she il the thrifty house.
wife. and while she picks the floue,
for the joy Of today. knows how II
preserve the fruit for the lreary win
tor that is to come. Woe to her i
she joins in the thoughtlessnes- o
her prodigal companion, for they vii
make a splendid bonfire of their Of
fections."
This cryptic ,lec'aratio means.
bcli.v". that it i Woman's duty to b.
a ioNc dictator and apply the savini
principles Of lIooyerism TO the house
hold OF the heart.
Say mo" at First
"Nrver should woman say yes with
out having said no at least once.
Mantcgazz.l declares, III she trul
loves her prodigal friend let her saw
for the days Of famine the crumt
which he now despisc.; let her be III
steward of the love as she is alread
Of the household
Grace more than beauty preserve
love; sympathetic natures are mo-
loved than beautiful ones kind nj
lures more than grand ones. wit mo
than genius. There are men al
women who. at first sight. do n
make any great impression, but
every hair of their heads. in eve
pore of the skin, they seem TO ha'
hooks which seize you in u thousal
grips the moment YOU come in clio
contact with them"
'Iorc always cleyates the low
above the average man" says Ma
teSazza. Fur one genius killed
love. YOU have Il. thousand who oN
to love their greatest inspiration
who draw from il the strength to 10,
who bless it as superior to glory
Should Consult Woman Always.
Mantcsa zza advises every man
consult the woman he loves Def,
launching any great undertakil
Women. he asserts. have seco
sight in everything which concerns {
beloved one. and he adds that thr,
fourths of the great achievements
naen would not have been perform
save for the inspiring counsel Of 80
woman.
AAategawa rejects the possibility