GET OUT, YE LOVER-SNEERERS!
■ 'The cheerless 1 company of cackling croakers has got its kniti. Hush into the modern young .man (says a writer in a Home paper). I'nlikc laisai's- wife, the poor chap is blameworthy in everything he does. If he dare to sniije, the country is immediately going to the dogs; if lie goes about with a long face, lie is held up as an awful example of tile uainbypanibyisui of the age. He is, in short, tiii encumbrance upon the face of the earth.
Kvlii his ain'bition, or lack of ambition, to ln.iriy is not sacred. If he shows no signs of wishing to enter the bonds of Holy Matrimony, he is forthwith denounced is a. sellish brute who is evading his moral and proper obligations to the State, and who should therefore be. taxed.
li, oil the other hand, he falls iu love with a girl and wants to make her his wife, he is everlastingly told that he is ail imbecile, and that he is on the high road to endangering, if not actually ruining, his prospects in life. This last contention is a very favorite, pessimistic one, and one which i shall proceed to smash. First of all, so it is shrieked, the young .man in love moons about, and cannot Coring his miiul to bear fully on his work.
Xo.v, that is a silly misstatement, for wl.-.ch a lot of sillier poets are chiefly to blame, Xo ordinary young man in love with all ord—l beg pttrdoit—-extra-ordinary young lady moons about and neglects his work, He would very soon get the sack if he did. And tEie sack is one of the chief things that he particularly wishes to dodge in, the circumstances. Xo, Messrs. Jeremiah and Co., such a young man neither moons nor slacks. Seek one out, and sUdy him quietly. Xote the cheery and bright look on his face; the alert, elastic step; the general air of gladness that the new incentive to work lliard and get on invariably creates.
Xay, nav, my poor, dear, fretful fools, vou are up against a young man in his best lighting form there. It is the young man avlio is not in love who may give way to mooning and slacking. 1 said just now that the young mail in love does not want to get the sack. I repeat it—he doesn't. But that does not mean that he will suddenly allow himself to be sat upon, or that he will refuse henceforth to take auv sporting risks.
Oh, dear me, no,ye melancholy monks. The innate gambling spirit, the lust for trying to bring oil' a coup, docs not suddenly forsake a man when he becomes engaged to be married. On the contrary, it becomes keener, if anything. Only, your engaged mail having more than number one to consider, is given to taking more sensible risks. He is apt to look before he leaps, which is an eminently wise thing to do. Another grievance against the young man in love is that lie is for ever thinking of his pet girl, and tlhat he often becomes unsociable and even morose when she isn't about.
Well, that he should have her on the brain, so to speak, is, to my mind, splendid, especially if she is alllicted ill the same way as regards him. I see nothing to grumble at in that; on the contrary, I see in it distiinct signs of much future bliss- and happiness dor the two -persons tlius mentally concerned.
I would "not have things otherwise— I want the world to go on turning on its axis. , Nor am I to be found groaning aloud if any young mail .prefers to sit in a corner alone and build castles in the air, or enrich the postal revenue by ni"litily forwarding reams of manuscript to"his lady-love rather than engage in a tete-a-tete with me. Good luck to him, say 1. , ,'Fcr a young mail to be in love is ■ food in every way, I am convinced. It makes him more careful of his personal appearance, for one thing. You do not see Ih-im with a twenty-tour hours' beard on him when his inamorata is ill the neighborhood, for instauce. Then, he bevomw less selliish and selfcentred. He will give up all sorts of former little extravagances m order that he may be able to do or buy things to please his girl. i know several men who have permanently reduced their daily consumption of tobacco by ouii-hitlf at the des'ire of She Who Must be Obeyed. Also) falling in love very often leads a man to take an intelligent interest iu things which never appealed to him before Cupid hit him. If the girl is keen oil literature, art, lnus-ie, or what not, the man is pretty certain to follow suit sooner or later. All of which you can put iu your pipes and smoke, you auti-amorites.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 23, 20 February 1909, Page 3
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826GET OUT, YE LOVER-SNEERERS! Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 23, 20 February 1909, Page 3
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