WHAT IS LOVE?

Hastings Standard, Issue 80, 29 July 1896, Page 4

WHAT IS LOVE?

[To the Editor.] Sta, —What are the young men in this colony coining to, or is leap year specially disastrous to youth in love affaire ? A week or two ago Hastings was shocked by the report of a suicide —cause, love. A day or two afterwards a Maori blew his brains out at Kaiapoi—cause, love. The body of a young man was found in a river—supposed cause, love; and now we read of a young fellow hanging himself to a beam in a church in Nelson—cause, love. If the " gentle " sex is gradually outgrowing the term and becoming hard in heart as in everything else, young men should study their position and hall before becoming infatuated to an extent that a refusal of a " proposal " leads them to think that life is a failure, and that it should be sacrificed at the altar of Love. Nowadays when the guileless youth warbles outside the window of his lady love, '* Alice where art thou," and finds her with another fellow he goes and buys a revolver. He sings ' The heart bowed down" feelingly, writes a letter to the coroner, and blows his brains out. There is far too much sentimentality about the Colonial youth, and too much poetry in his constitution. "In happy moments " "He seeks for her in every flower," and when she says " We'd better bide-a-wee," " Home they bring her warrior dead." ? Tis sad but nevertheless trne, and I ask some of your readers to suggest a remedy for the epidemic that is pervading our gentle yoang country. I would like to have the opinions of some of your fair Headers, as this is a. subject of more Hum average importance. If they only save a few lhes from an untimely ! end their names will be handed down