Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1898 — About Love—They Tell Us [ARTICLE]

About Love—They Tell Us

That it is terrible to be obliged to love by contract. That you can trust your dog to the end; a woman—until her first opportunity. That of all heavenly bodies, the heaviest is the woman that we have ceased to love. That it is about as hard to hide your love as it is to hide a sneeze; neither of them can be repi’essed. That before pi'omising a woman to love only her, one should have ;seen them all, or see only her. That love pleases more than marriage, for the x-eason that roman Iti more pleasant than history. That a woman who pretends tn laugh at love is like the child who brings at night when he is afraid. That the highest mark of esteem a womgn can give a man is to ask his friendship, and the most signal proof of her indifference is to offer hi™ hers. That love-making is dreadfully tame beside a hot-air register or a steam elevator. That may be one reason why so many remain single nowadays. In “ye olden time,” when lovers toasted their shins before a log fire, the cracking of the wood filled up all awkwavi gaps, and things went on so smoothly that one had said “will you?” and the other “yes,” before they knew what they were doing.