LOVE CAPTURES ALL.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1715, 11 January 1905, Page 65

LOVE CAPTURES ALL.

“Do I believe in love?” echoed a man who was supposed + n. he a cynical old! bachelor. “I imagine I ought to if I do nob for I have seen enough of it. I have seen silly young girls head over heels in love with young men not half good enough for them, and I have seen hard-headed men of business, men who when selecting a manager for different branches of their business are never erring, and who pick mi the very man to a ‘T,’ yet these same men, when it comes to choosing the head of their home, the chief of their domestic happiness, they will not exhibit the slightest thought in this way, but will be so governed and conti-olled by love that some child-like girl can twist them around her little finger. Love makes such, a man forget the rules that govern all liis other incomings and outgoings; love blinds the eyes of women to the faults of their sweethearts and husbands ; love makes people sacrifice themselves as the greatest gain, the greatest fame, as nothing else in this world would urge them to. ‘How to define it- no one seems to know ; where it comes from, why it comes is equally a mystery ; hut no- one who has the slightest powers ot observation. can fad to believe .in love and its all conquering power, even ii one personally is not constrained to go out and meet it.”