Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1889 — WOMAN’S LOVE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WOMAN’S LOVE.

BY JOSEPHINE JOHNS.

HERE is a priceless value in a pure woman’s love. Gold cannot purchase a gem so precious. Titles and honors confer upon man no such serene happiness. In our darkest moments, when disappointment and ingratitude, with corroding care, gather thickly around, and even the gaunt form of poverty menaces

with his skeleton fingers, her love gleams around that soul with an angel smile. Time cannot mar its brilliancy; distance but strengthens its influence; it follows the prisoner into the darkest cell, and in the silence of midnight it plays around his heart, and in his dreams he folds to his bosom the form of her who loves him still, though tho world has turned coldly from him. The couch made by the hand of a loved one is softer to the wearied limbs of the sick sufferer, and the potion administered tenderly by the same had loses half its bitterness. The pillow carefully adjusted by her brings repose to the fevered brain, and her words of kind encouragement sustain the sinking spirit. It does seem that God, compassionating woman’s first error, has planted a jewel in her breast, a heaven-like influence that casts into forgetfulness a remembrance of the fall, by building up in hearts of men another Eden, where perpetual flowers ever bloom and crystal waters flow from exhaust less fountains.