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Show Two Startling Suggestions. It la rather startling to find that all Iho moat effusive algna of affection In UH.i today are nothing more or Ichs than rcllce of herbarium a modified form of attack. Such, at least, Is llio opliilou of "Student" (Oxford), who rtnittii tu bo an authority ou the subject. sub-ject. "Take, for example," he says, "a hi. Whiit In it but a pretence to bite? It la an a. -lion plainly liil.-ii.l,-, to convey tin meaning: '1 could bite you, you s.e. but I won't.' In tho mine way the playful pats aud slaps which a lover gives to hla sweetheurt are ol.vlo.mly a mimicry of blown, regarded simply an pr!. leged InnrkH of endearment. Avion ho rlnpn lux In hla arma l( In Mm eniio of capture which thrills hlin. and of being captured which thrill' her." London Tit llli. |