THE REPUBLICAN

October 14, 1881

 

About Love

 

Mr. Fact and fancy has noticed:

That the boy who is most afraid of the girls is the first to be corralled into matrimony.

That the little boys prefer boys to girls.

That they soon change, never to go back to their early love.

That the little girls love the girls the best.

That they don’t get over their preference as soon as the boys do – some of them never.

That the women love the men because they love everything they have to take care of.

That men love women because they can’t help it.

That the wife loves her husband so well that she has no thoughts for other men.  

That the husband so loves his wife that he loves all other women for her sake.

That the married man is apt to think himself all-killing among the fair sex simply because

he has found one woman fool enough to marry him.

That homely husbands are the best.  They never forget the compliment paid them by their

wives in accepting them.

That homely wives are the truest.  They know how to make the most of what they have.

That the man who marries late in life does well.

That the man who marries young does better.

That the man that never marries is to be pitied.