Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1885 — How It Feels to Be a Juliet. [ARTICLE]

How It Feels to Be a Juliet.

There is no period in a woman's life when she is so happy as when she is being courted, says a writer, who has evidently had experience. That accounts for the fact that a great many of them permit themselves to be courted by men who have no right to do suoh a thing. They like the gallantries of courtship, the playful words of a suitor, his constant animation, his hundreds of small compliments, his readiness and agility in extending his hand whether it is needed or not, his inspirational conversation, his self-sacri-fices and unwavering devotion. Heavens, what is there that a man will not do when he is in love? What else will drive him to such length of brilliancy and daring? It is then that he becomes the cock-bird, puts on his most brilliant plumage, struts about in. his greatest glory, and reaches the most beautiful perfection of his nature. He writes long letters, spends his money like a prodigal, is ready to go here, there, or anywhere, rain or shine, at the book arid call of his fair mistress, wears his best clothes, walks with the erectness and elasticity of a trained athlete, smiles on all mankind, and is a being much beyond and above the common run of the race. All this he is to the woman to whom he is playing the lover. She takes him for what ho seems to be, not for what ho is. Perhaps he may turn out what he seems to be, perhaps not-r-generally not. Most husbands are disappointing to their wives because they immediately after marriage collapse—collapse into mere matter-of-fact, plain, every-day men, who seem to think about as much of one thing as another.— Exchange.