SPEAKING OF LOVE.

Cromwell Argus, Volume XLIII, Issue 2337, 27 January 1913, Page 7

SPEAKING OF LOVE.

FUUIt CH IS i'll SHED ADAGES

MERELY ANCIENT JOKES

In regard to love wc hear expressions like these ; ‘T.ovc rules all.” fc All the world loves a lover.” ‘ A maid should obey the dictates of her heart.” '‘ Love laughts at locksmiths.” And others too numerous to mention. Perhaps the first one is the best joke of the lot. Love rules all 1 That is one of the funniest things you ever heard ! Some even go so far as to think children can be ruled by love. It has been seen in practice. This is the way .it works : ‘Come, now, Johnnie. Come, dear.” Not a budge from Johnnie. ‘“Come on, darling, mamma wants you to conic now, sweetheart. Come on. ” Nothing stirring. “Johnnie must come now. Johnnie be a good boy, mamma give Johnnie a eookey to-morrow.” “Dowanto.” “f hj. yes, you must come 1 It Is getting late now. Come on. dear.” Johnnie doesn't.

"•Come on. now, Johnnie. You must come. Mamma’s tired of wait ing. Mamma spank I” Johnnie still unconvinced. Whack ! Whack ! Whack ! Johnnie comes. “ All the world loves a lover !” Another joke.

What do we love about him? Per haps the florist and candy man love him, and that’s about the extent of

in the olden days when the lover did a great deal of sighing and desperate hair pulling, and provided entertainment for the neighbours by (doping with the girl once in a while, people felt mildly grateful for the show. But if hardly amounted to love. And certainly his serenading beneath her lattice was more likely to bring brick-ba’s than demonstrations ~f affection. “A maid should obey the dictates of her heart” is rather good. Sonic people evidently adhere to the belief that “there is a heart that heaven, has made for thee,” or they have faith in the text of some humorous ballad. But, as most of us know, whin a follow has special talents m the lovemaking line, and time and inclina lion to perfect his talents, lie can make any girl think he is the one to furnish the heart, that “ heaven has made for thee;” whereas, nun who have neither time nor inclination in that direction must, go unloved and unsung,, and the latter kind of man could carry seven or eight, of the former kind in bis vest, pocket. Sometimes the young woman must choose between a college profcssoi and a saloonkeeper One can give her social position and care faro; the other an electric brougham and a pink-plumed bonnet. It is hard to decide in r such a rase. Ibe dictates of her heart are led in one direction by the ostrich plumes, and in the other by the prospect of having a hat, off anil at home expression at a college commencement a very great, thing, indeed, and a thing to create heart longing. ■Love iaugbts at locksmiths!” An anci( nt joke ! (iirls \lo not elope by ladder any more. If they did the father would probably furnish the ladder. —’'’Chicago News.”