LOVE AND REASON.
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In affairs of matrimony, some people are
governed by love alone and some by reason
alone. Each ought to have joint concern in
these matters-they are landmarks which
go along with the few who are so fortunate
as to be among the wise. But as the great
mass Of the people have to jog on in the or
binary road, with single guide, l will say a
word by the way, about the comparative va
lue of these very different partners.


Love looks only to the honeymoon. He's
a near sighted little mink doesn't SEE Two
inches beyond his nose and yet depends al
together upon his eyesight. and thinks he
has wonderful clear vision. He is not
able to see any defects, and therefore most
soberlv concludes there are none. Conse-
quences all lie utterly beyond his kenyon
might as we'll tell him the moon was made OF
green cheese, as that matrimony had dash
Of trouble in its composition. All this is the
natural consequence of his blindness.


Reason is to love, what pair OF specta-
clcs is to a near sighted man; it enables the
blind little fellow to look beyond the fair
cheek and blue eye-the pretty form and the
pretty features of his mistress-beyond the
wedding ceremony and the wedding supper
and the thousand things that cluster round
the very idea of marriage. He enables the
boy, say, to look beyond all these, to the
domestic fire -side--to the kitchen comfort.
of welded life--to the larder and the ledger
to the pudding and the purse-to the way:
and means of lving--as well as to the very
simple business of loving.


L look at these thingsin very sober light
for have no lot or part in the matter
But do net distrust my judgment the more
on that account. People more, deeply in
terested are apt to take one-side view O
the case.