Rensselaer Union, Volume 8, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1876 — Loving and Being Loved. [ARTICLE]

Loving and Being Loved.

Perhaps there is no more painfal time in a woman’s life than the time of transition, when the assiduous lover is passing into the mat-ter-of-fact husband, and the wooer is gradually changing into the master. Women, who are so much more sensitive thah men, mor sentimental, too, and less content to trust in silence to an undemonstrative affection are, for the most part, happy only while they are being made love to. It is not enough to be loved; they want to be told twenty times a day and to have the harmonies of life enriched by a crowd of “occasional notes," embroidering the solid substance by which they live. Men, on the contrary, get tired of making love. When they have wooed and won, they are content to be quiet and take all the rest for granted. They are not cold, however, beoause they are secure; and to most —and these the best—practical kindness is better than flattery, security ranks before excitement and hysteria, and life passed in serene friendship, fearing no evil, knowing no dread and needing no praising, is better than life passed in a perpetual turmoil of passions, where there are scenes and tears, and doubts, and broken hearts, if there aro not endless courtships and fatiguing demonstrations Borne Journal.