Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1923-02-23

people Of today have no way Of know
u ing they're In love or not--they mi,
take the gregarious habit for II
mystic fire OF Hymen's torch, tn
pangs of a bad digestion for tn
barbed arrows from the love- god
bow.
allied Romeo and Juliet they're n
more in doubt about 1t than was tn
man who sat down on a circular sa,
: to see il 1t was running and foun
it the sole proprietor of a Sout
American revolution. They don
have to send their feelings to a chem
list to have them analysed or classi
= fled, nor take an invoice of their at
lection to see If they have any.
Love is really a serious thing. Like
seasickness everybody laughs at it
except those who have got it, When
Cupid, that cunning little god Of love,
let's slip sure-enough arrow 1t goes
through a fellows heart like a Billy
Sunday sermon through an emotional
old maid, and all the power Of Hades
can't head it off.
1t is as natural for men to pay
court to women as for flies to buzz
about molasses barrel; but not ev-
cry fly that buzzes expects to be
caught, beg to state. The man that
doesn't tell every woman who will
listen to him-excepting, perhaps, his
wife-that she's as pretty as a pearl
even though she be homely enough
TO brighten a democrat out Of a fat
federal Job; that she's got his heart |
that he lives only In the |
studied sunshine Of her store-teeth
smile and is hungering to die for her
sake-well he's an angel and he-ser-
apis are mighty scarce, / beg Won to
believe. Since Adonis died and JOS
'ph was gathered to his fathers. none
nave appeared that I know of.
9 . 9 q II
Let me tell you descriptive story II
4 mother-love.
Every sound in the large and lovely i
DOM was muffled by the rich rugs
ne siik-hung walls, the heavy cur
inns. A fire burnt low on the hearth
no sent ruby shadow here and Il
iere' fhckering over the alabaster
ase' the ivory carving the water
'iors on the panel, the blue, silk
'Veriet and the billowly lace about n
% bed The room was full Of the /:
asrance OF hundred roses. III
An attendant, velvet shod, carried 81
ray small, gold tray with a bowl N
china as translucent as a flower HI
other nurse sat by the fire and =
'amed over the pillow that Law ~
'oss her knee. N
Nj seemed well with the young b
Their, all seemed well with the
ing child. She rested deep among
pillows in a sleepy content. hut
te determined on no more expert N
q OF this sort. Why could not the b
Q have been continued in some
or way? 1t really seemed as If B
re were some malevolence toward n
men, How much she had missed
70 they forbade her to dance or
ride.
he idea OF her foregoing all her
lsures for this-and life so short
best. She would be on a horse
In the moment she was able, be-
the frosty weather was all gone.
had lost the hunt ball. Az n wos
l. here was the heir. anyway. he
ID nave to do. A gush of music
Q through an open door or win
; trii OF violins and flutes; there c0t
small and early german in the g
'e next door-how vexatious to no 8
uss-h'-.>, '"->s- TX
~
ID all the rehearsals for the thea @
i were over without her, and ev- S
yone had declared there could he x
It such a Cleopatra as she. and g
nad ropes and ropes of pearls to 8 :
:. and miles Of rose-c olored saus- n
air to hide and half to reveal the 2
-coiored tights. Very likely there
"a have been fuss, but what ~
the use of being beautiful all
ourseif? At all events the gaux-
'ould do for the skirt dances thew ~
gong to give for the Blenheim e
,iel hospital.
'ere would be some cotillons any, y
before Lent. She hoped she was
foing to come out OF all this with
color gone. And her figure-it -
ID be pity II the gowns she ~st