Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 291, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1910 — Does Opposition Create Love? [ARTICLE]

Does Opposition Create Love?

There is one thing that parents and guardians never seem to learn, and that is, how opposition fans the flame of love. Charley is not rich enough to satisfy their ideal of the man who shall marry pretty Molly—or James, perchance is too young, or too something else to their minds. Forthwith one or the other young man is criticised, sniffed at and generally belittled—with the inevitable result that Molly becomes his champion and loves him a thousands times better for every sharp wor<Tor snub that he receives. And even more apparent is I 'the result when a mother and sister strive to turn the current of a son and brother’s love. Every chivalrous Impulse carries him to the side of the girt who is abused, and drives him, perhaps, to the very end against which his family ia struggling.