In the emotional matter of love, men and women so often lash. And perhaps

It is a beneficial thing for the race that a woman's emotions are

practical. For

If neither the man nor the woman curbed the mettlesome Pegasus "Emotion",

methinks the colts and fillies would want for hay and oats.

* * *

It is a moot question which is the more fatally fascinating: the

uniformed nurse or the weeded widow. But

Who has yet discovered the secret springs of fascination? For example,

How is it that certain eyes and lips will enthrall, while others leave us

cold and inert?

Does the potency lie in the eyes and the lips, or is there some

inscrutable and psychic power? At all events, who will explain how it is

that

A man will sometimes forsake the most beautiful of wives and a woman will

forsake the kindest of husbands to follow recklessly one who admits no

comparison with the one forsaken? All we can say is that

The potency of personality exceeds the potency of beauty. For,

Powerful as is physical charm, it counts not for all in the matter of

love. Yet what it may be that does count, and how and why it does count,

no man living shall say. For

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