Show I 1 A 1 M scarcely a without bringing ua ajr ing intelligence that some disappointed lover has cither alwn hia own drains out or killed tho wo man who failed to requite his ill advised affection th hideous aspect of lovo affairs in tho ChrtT have by ali d press off the country of late tho leading Journal new icaco add san arah c have al been im exclaiming against he ala prevalence of tragedies which from love in the inter ocean ui asserting that crimes of this become so common thai they are no bonger ng to choso who rend repol aiu and create but a temporary commotion even in the vary community where they occur thia indicates a social coldiron con diRon the reasons for the comparative indifference may be twofold a deposition the man ai afo olor a madman and a belief that the woman largely in difed the moral consequences moreover society likes to evade its own responsibility in tho matter and imagines it is doing so by treating every event orthis kind as a freak sanity this blind disregard of the reaL issues encourage athe perpetration of such crimes and the general complacency with which people look upon the follies and ca prices of lovers prepares the way for those horrible deeds which should awaken nien and women to a conscious nef of tho fact that ab nb passion is more dangerous than love certain circumstances the great evil of days is the lightness with chichi love and marriage are regarded christendom young gentile wo men to blame than they or then arc willing to admit chile there is nothing that can justify a man in attempting abe life of a waman who declines to be como afa wife ia nothing on the other hand to excuse a woman for encouraging attention she does not intend to breward in the way contemplated by the suitor eliat young women more especially thoe who think flirtation to be a legitimate incident of fashionable or gay life do hold out inducements to young men without having the affections of their hearts engaged in something more than a tolly and there is no occasion or surprise Eur prise if sometimes they are held lo 10 a fearful account for their willing trifling all men are not able to distinguish between real love and its themselves they believe in the honesty and truth of the women they love they are incapable ot diverting them elves by a make believe passion and by the object 01 ol it utterly impossible that a pure woman could cubbit tar the overtures that she doe not reciprocate in many girl sand young women who re doubtless wholly virtuous in thought consider it a great toleah a man on to a declaration fervid senti menla when they lire at the same time similarly engaged with other gentlemen equally deceived as to their real feeling misguided mothers close their eyes to such acts of indiscretion and seem to rather approve than condemn thi species of innocent amusement pleased because it ar buea the popularity of their daughters the daughters necessarily gain false ideas bf their relations to society and it is no wonder if this laxity extends to a disic gard of moral principles later in life when the coquet becomes a frivolous iriv olous and wayward wife if women will trifle with the passions of men let those who cast the apell beware the fiend flirtation i aa great a curse to polite society as if natural fruit the social iccil i pestilential to society in general t is indulged with a total disregard 1 of the rights 0 honest sincere manhood mis chances must occur and the new order of arm grow a pace it is well known as a fact of mental science aba f love may be more potent than disease in wrecking a healthful etem if it is abused and insanity is more destructive in bui tendency chah fierce jealous that often attend hopeless love tha passion is flippantly referred to by those who sec its hu but itla for all that the great life and as it is well or ill directed jis it erand or terrible the flirt Is the deliberate trifler with this myrte rious she or be be cornea its social verdict should unhesitatingly and without flimsy excuses place tho blame where it rightly belongs |