Show 1 MANS LOVE EXCEEDS THAT OF WOMAN 1 With borne justification the man Inn In-n affair of the heart may assert that Is llancoes claim that women alone jive undiluted affection Is an empty L iciast which has done service Ions < sough i in face oC the facts Facts which are ungallant things nd wont to stand llrm even against omanly I opinions pem to Indicate ml the man will KC up moie for love fan the woman I That being the case Is It ncy t unrea nablc to suppose that the article of ftectlon which the man hands out Is little better In quallt than tho brand tmdlcd by the woman This Is an Iconoclastic statement and k made with due reserve It Is un feasant to upset the traditional Idea at In woman alone must one look for genuine selfsacrlflclnj affection There is however a certain amount 6f I justice due the man and Daniel has come to justice Taking a number of the prominent affair of the heart which came to light laist week selecting them without favor r partiality it Is foundthat the score I l kinds six to lour lo the credit of the 111011 iUH1lIe The tally by Innings is as follows JAVherc the bridegioom scored f Husband of 37 years takes a bride of 1C Frenchman in America goes back to France for twoetheart of fifty years agoNortjj Nortjj Dakota farmer works seventeen seven-teen years for his fiancee Young man of Kentucky sets fire to hair of girl who jilted him St Louis boy risks a mothers anger to marry a shopgirl f I A Bulgarian marries a Missouri girl because she was kind to him To the credit of the bride Ero German girl earns money to bring ilancc from faLheiland < Illinois girl marries her lover who is almost dying of consumption Pennsylvania girl risks legal punishment punish-ment to marry sixteenyearold boy Pennsylvania girl risks parental displeasure dis-pleasure lo marry n Chicago man Feminine skepticism may point lo one of the tallies on the masculine side with scorn That which credits a man with stttinjr Hie lo the hair of the girl that jilted him is referred to It should not be made a matter df jest There is no doubt in the world but that this young > man n who was Lawrence White of Muncie Ky was so much in love with Miss Lily Davis of the same place that when she refused him he was willing to set lire to her lie probably had figured out that he could not stand for her to be 4nn others and that r1thCI than risk this he would set fire to bur It may be considered us a icmarkable bit of self sacrifice for It got Lawrence into trouble Of course there are two ways of looking at it and If you do not agree with the tabulation you arc at liberty to scratch out this tally and leave the scoic five to four still in favor of the man The Bulguilan illustrates the power of mans gratitude as well as his constancy con-stancy All these I virtues have been denied men at one time or another by one person or another so It Is gratify ing lo find proof to the contrary George StaikoiT a Bulgarian emigrant emi-grant who fmmd his way to Missouri and there became a student in the State university is the man in question ques-tion Miss Ilatlie Edwards Is the young woman They nix now traveling In Europe on their wedding trip The Bulgarians first piece of luck in America found him In Chicago where he attracted the attention of an Instructor In-structor In languages at the Missouri State university SlnlknfC at the time was doing some rough work in connection connec-tion with the Bulgarian exhibit at the worlds fair Acting on the advice of the instructor he went to Missouri and i I undertook to work his way through the school and obtain an English educa I tion It was while he was thus engaged that Miss Edwards was aUructtd to the young man and her kindness to him was remembered long after his efforts had been successful and he hud > turned to Europe comparatively wealthy There might be some dispute about the first tally In the list which concerns con-cerns the marriage of George B Gravcnor aged 37 to Mrs Sarah Armour Ar-mour aged 70 It must be contended that the husband showed courage Vhen the couple asked for a marriage license they responded to questions by answering that the groom was over 21 and that the bride wasmore than IS which was the literal truth Ilarvy Borgnesser of St Louis Is the young man who has risked parental displeasure to marry the girl hewn he-wn nted even though she were u shop girl That Is 1 not much It will be admitted ad-mitted that he should have risked such displeasure It Is done every day Out In this case the mother of the boy threatens to send him to the penitentiary peniten-tiary for perjury if I he does not give up < tIle girl He swore > that he was older than he really was when he obtained ob-tained the marriage license But that Is probably a mere maternal threat Again It will be admitted that two of the cases of womanly devotion almost discount the entire exhibit set forth In favor of the men One Is the story of the young German girl who made the rip to America by herself went to work and by dint of hard labor succeeded suc-ceeded In supporting herself and laying aside enough to bring her fiance over to her She was Maggie Kanton a pretty nineteenyearold German girl The fiance Adam Barth arrived last week The frlrl i left I home two years ago Both she and her lover were Loo poor to begin matrlinony in the fatherland and the man did not have line courage Ito I-to try his fortunes in the new world The girl did She left their native village I vil-lage and came to America For two I years she struggled hard lived economically eco-nomically and finally secured he I money which would bring her lover to her It was sent to him and he started across The two were married In Zlr I Paul the day that Barth arrived The other story Is a pathetic romance ro-mance It concerns a young woman I who now Is nursing her lover In a vain hope that he may be saved from tuberculosis tuber-culosis About a year ago John Crook of Springfield IIlt was taken 111 with typhoid fever and during convalescence i conva-lescence caught a cold which went to his lungs and consumption resulted He went south In search of health and while there found not It but a girl with t whom he formerly had been In love lie found that he still was In love with her and she with him Unknown Un-known to the parents of the boy the two were married The young mans father when ha learned of his sons marriage was angered JIe believed that the young I woman had not acted right toward the I family In marrying the son while he wns III and near to death There were several angry passages between the young wife and the father but finally hey became reconciled The bride Is now In Springfield with her husband who is critically ill In St Johns hospital A special arrangement made by the hospital authorities allows her to remain at his side She is constantly constant-ly I In attendance on him but it is said l that there Is I but small chance of her not being widowed almost as soon as she was married Chicago Tribune |