The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1921-08-12
SWEETHEARTS
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: THE State acknowledges its obll-
cation for the charming essay below
to Mai. J. F. J. Caldwell of Newberry,
and it is sure that its readers will be
grateful to him for the pleasure that
its perusal will undoubtedly afford
them.)
4.
u Perhaps I am disqualified to discuss
this subject by my age and the chang
a in persons and things about US.
3utI fancy that,I am still acquainted
with. the thoughts, emotions and mo mo-
fiyss of even the very young; and
thaar men and women are influenced
new as was Jacob when he loved Ra-
sSel,sanasMiehae1 when she loved
Dsyid. AID / am sure that when a
WOMAN makes marriage a business
TRANSACTION, She is, following the ex-
ample of Widow Ruth in her courting
cf wealthy Boaz. And the subject is
more important than most persons
think. { am attached to the old word
sweetheart. believe that no other
laukuage among those have studied
xaS QUITE it's equivalent. The Greek
Lain French, German, Italian and
Spanish have words signifying lover
sffA loved one ! but all Of these in
sssn;s their petting diminutives, seem
Is, me f6 falf short Of our tender old
Mora. Tie Italians approach II in the
terms. cor nlasiio-my heart; but there
i. lacking the finest word, sweet.
III often recur to the fable told by
Afistsbhanes in Plato's Banquet" to
he eject that originally the human
hssng embtaced all that now censti-
tntAs tae TWO sexes, but that that be-
ifiE was afterwards divided into two
,: pats, one Of these male, the other
fsmale, and that each Of: these halves
m mhas been seeking union with the other
halfssver. . since. This impulse begins
rs smavs boys, generally, pretty early
nfifs, and ]. suspect that the girls. are
similarly affected: Some persons are
free from It for a good many years.
but my observation is that when 1t
1fikss them, it hits hard. Experience
nay enable men or women to handle
tks impulse discreetly, but l have
sssn persons as frantic during the
sseoad. third, or even tenth visitation
si ashoy or girl in his or her first one.
Tears ago, at summer resort, ] OBJ
SsfSga a a shSky old Widower courting
5pihsssr ef about fifty His grinning
Ind jerking and tumbEng were very
asaussng, and her halfencouraging
Aha smpering and eoqletting were
my pretty. Mrs. Caldwell insisted
fast sIhe affair was altogether iHter-''
saang: to- me it was only funny.
Sene persons haye been thought
sxktnpt, through life, from the emo
sitS pity ssach.: II SIS :nat only
better: TO- have loved and lest than
nkYsr te hare layed at aa," bat better
ss have loved. and failed than failed
80 hare had the fseling. *
sSO One Of the raest interesting per
ssas sing tie world is the boy lover;
Ishssn the boy thoroughly in love.
Ts mn, the girl is just perfection n It
isshsFdly sxaggeration to say that be
Xpzsafps her. She is the prethest,
ssaasfsst, best thing imaginable. Of
sta, he does not think Of getting pos
session ef her; she is too superior a
being TO be appropriated by anybody.
H thinks It. would be unwarranted
aaaaeits to declare his passion to her.
SIS in the condition described in
Yefsss which read some sixty years
a asoWsre they By Charles Mackag?
E = : ssI do love a maiden,
Radiant, rare, and beauty-laden,
1d give the world and all that's in if,
Jun f6 press her hand minute. ;
'Sat she wgeteth not + loye her;
Never dare + tell the sweet /
Tale hnt to the stars, above her, !
And the flowers that kiss her feet"
Is doubt that any girl, at least in
days Of old, ever was SO Infatuated
ss fhat. Then, when modesty, self
fsstfaint and guardedpess were 50
ssds,leusly inculcafed' on girls by ma
ture women, I think that these les
sans, backed by the girls .shrewdness,
nor OILY led her to practice reserve
insnahnsrs, but also educated. her in
Ta;errtssionS of feeling. She knew that
shs average Boy would abomipate a
gssl who made love to him, and soon
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