CURES FOR LOVE

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 72, 14 March 1908, Page 3

CURES FOR LOVE

Absence is one of the means of curing love. Two thousand years ago Ovid advised his readers who wished to cure themselves ol an unlucky attachment lo lice the capital, to trawd, liuul, or till the soil.

J.ove," said Coleridge, "is a local anguish. I am lilty miles away, and lioi half so miserable."

I liuiother men have found that ah--ehce increases love. La liochcfoiicauld piobably hit upon the truth when he said that " Absence destroys weak pas- | sions but increases strong ones, as the wind extinguishes a candle but blows up a lire." If ihe love is all fancy and has little strength, it may be cured by personal contact with the object. But the safer plan, perhaps, is to keep out of the way. Hence travel is a good expedient. Business, perhaps, is a better one. Ovid said, "If you desire to end your love, employ yourself, for love (lees business.''

Still a noi her expedient is reflection upon the unhappiness of married life. A man in search of this view can find il anywhere. Addison said that "Beauty I soon grows familiar to the lover, fades in his eye, and pals upon the sense"; and llazlitt, tluit "Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes the edge nil' admiration." Coetlie slid, "With most marriages it docs not take long for things lo a-sunie a very piteous look." lint none iif theni married happily. Cohlsmilh I

-aid: "Many of the Knglish marry in order to have one happy month in their lives." And Colly Cibber: "Oh, how many torments lie in the small circle of a wedding-ring!" But, undoubtedly, the best way to get. rid of one love is to have another. " All

love may be expelled by love, as poisorm are by other poisons," says Dryden. Heine says: "The most effective antidote to woman is woman. In such n. ease tbe medicine is often more noxious than the malady: Imi it ]>. at any rat-.\ a change, and in a d'-coiisolate love I'tlair, a Hiauge in the inamorata is un-(jin'-!ii)n;»iil\' the Im>si policy."