Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1885 — Love-Making in France and England. [ARTICLE]

Love-Making in France and England.

I havq never much admired the way in which declarations of love are made in France. With us the foolish animal has to go on his knees at a woman’s feet. With her eyes modestlv dropped on us, this little demon of observation makes an inventory of all our smallest defects—of our hair, growing sparser, of our languishing eyes turned up and showing their whites; of a little wart which we thought concealed. I put it squarely that in this little scene it seems to me we have to play a supremely ridiculous part. If any one of my readers is not of this opinion, let him put this question to himself, “Should I ever think of being photographed in the attitude above described ?” I await his answer. They manage these things differently in England. You sit down comfortably, very much at your ease. You have the adored object of your dreams at your side or at your feet, and you can murmur your sweet whispers of love into her ear without ever dislocating your vertebral column. You may even smoke your cigar, without any fear of giving offense, all the time you tell your love and build your castles in Spain. “Then you are something of a pasha,” I can imagine some emancipated women exclaiming. Not at all, madame; it is no question of master and slave; it is a matter “not of slavery but of exalted duty.”— “Les Filles de John Bull,” by Max O’Bell.