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Show WHY FEW LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT. Oliver Wendell Holmes Has Well Portrayed Por-trayed Situation. I understand wo were speaking of love at first sight I remarked, mildly. Now, as all a man knows about a woman whom he looks at Is Just what a picture as big as a copper, or a "nickel," rather, at the bottom of his eye can teach him. I think I am right In saying we were talking about the pictures of women. Well. now. tho reason why a man is not desperately In love with 10,000 women at once is Just that which prevents our portraits being distinctly seen on that wall. They are painted there by reflection from our facos, but because all of them aro painted on each spot, and each on the same surface, and many ether objects at the same time, no one is "seen In" the picture. But darken a chamber and let a single pencil of rays In through a keyhole, and you have a picture on the wall. We never fall In ove with a woman In distinction from women until we get an Image of her through a pinhole. pin-hole. And then we see nothing else, and nobody but ourselves can see the Image In our mental camera ob-scura. ob-scura. From "The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table," by Oliver Wendell Holmes. |