SOMETHING ABOUT LOVE.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume IX, Issue 9, 27 February 1892, Page 197

SOMETHING ABOUT LOVE.

Love has been defined as a torment, a delight, a bore, a bother, the sole taste of paradise or—the other place. It may be taken for granted, however, that given two people in health, with a keen enjoyment of sunshine and the fine weather, attracted for some reason to each other, with a charm of novelty about this attraction—for the love of today is curiously enough always different from the love of yesterday—the most perfect love will be possible if only one loves, and that one the man. A man very quickly wearies of a woman who loves him.

For awhile adoration is delightful, then it is like too much sweet, and cloys him. A woman is wisest when she has a sincere affection for a man, and her wisdom is that of the serpent, when she always keeps an attraction in reserve for him, and he is never quite sure of the charm that may come next. When he next meets her she may greet him either with the words he has most longed for or a perfectly-dressed salad. He doesn't know whether there will be a sweet invalid who can make his heart swell with joy, because his hand only can make the ]>oor head stop aching, or whether a bright coquette will offer to pin a rosebud in his coat. Never let a man be quite sure is the secret, for certainty and satiety are twin sisters.