Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1903-09-10

ferent times, beginning with terrible
long first attack and dwindling down
as | became inoculated with expert
ence TILL now the complaint amounts
TO hardly more than a momentary throe
when l see a fresh one in a train for
an hours ride. l can do you lot Of
good If you'll listen to me. I'll give you
The benefit Of my experience"
What good would your devillsh ex-
perience do meT said Alan inpatient
ly.
ut would 1T any mans case II he'd
only believe 1t. I've made a study Of
love. I've observed hundreds of typi-
cal cases and watched marriage from
inception through protracted illness or
boredom down to dumb resignation or
sudden death. l don't mean that no
lovers of the ideal, sentimental brand
are ever happy after marriage. but
do believe that open eyed courtship
Will beat the blind sort all hollow and
that in nine cases out Of ten, II people
were mated by law according to the
judgment Of sensible, open eyed iu-
ry, they would be happier than they
now are. Nothing ever spoken is truer
than the commandment, Thou shalt
have no other God but me- Let man
put anything above the principle OF
living right, and he will be miserable
The man who holds gold as the chief
thing in life will starve to death in its
cold glitter, while pauper in rags
will have a laugh that rings with the
music Of immortal joy. In the same
way the man who declares that only
one woman is suited to him is making
god of her. raising her to seat that
won't support her dead material
weight. frankly believe that the
glamour of love is simply sort of in
sanity that has never been correctly
named and treated because so many
people have been the victims OF it,"
DO you know" Alan burst in al
most angrily, when you talk that way
i think you are off. l know what's
the matter with you-you have simply
frittered away your heart, your ability
TO love and appreciate a good woman.
Thank heaven, your experience has not
been nine l don't see how you could
ever be happy with woman. | couldn't
look a pure wife in the face and re-
member all the flrtations you've in
uulged 1n-that is, if they were mine"
There you co." laughed Miller.
MAKE it personal That's the only
way the average lover argues. am
speaking in general terms. Let me fin
fish. Take two examples-frst, the
chap crafty in love, who faces life
with the red rag of his infatuaton--
his girl. No parental objection, every
thing smooth and q carload Of silver
ware, a clock for every room in the
house. They start out on their honey
moon, doing the chief cities at the
biggest hotels and the theaters in the
three dollar seats. They soon tire of
themselves and lay 1t to the trip. Ev-
cry day they rake away handful of
glamour from each other till, when
they reach home. they have come to
the conclusion that they are only hui
man, and not the highest order at
that. For awhile they have a siege Of
discomfort, wondering where it's all
gone. Finally the man is forced TO
go about his work, and the woman
gets to making things to go on the
backs Of chairs and trying to spread
her trousseau over the next year, and
they begin 10 court resignation. Now,
If they had not had the glamour at
tack they would have got down TO
business sooner, that's all, and they
would have set better example to
other plungers. Now for the second
illustration: Poverty on one side
Doodle on the other; more glamour
than in other case because of the gulf
between. They get married; they have
to- They've inherited the stupid idea
that the Lord is at the bottom of 1t
and that the glamour is his smile
Like the other couple, their eyes are
finally opened to the facts, and they
begin to secretly wonder what it's all
nbout. The one with the spondulics
wonders harder than the one who has
none. If the man has the money, he
will feel good at first over doing so
much for his affinity, but if he las an
eye for earthly values-and goou bust
ness men have-there will be times
when he will envy Jones, whose wife
had as many rocks as Jones. Love
and capital go together like rain and
sunshine; they are productive of some
thing. Then II the woman has the
money and tn, man hasn't there's
tragedv-a slow cutting of throats.
She is irresistiblf drawn with the rest
of the world into the thought that she
has tied herself and he money to an
automaton, for such men are invari-
ably lifeess They seem TO lose the
faculty of earning money-in any other
way. And as for proper title for the
pcnniless young idiot that publicly ad-
vortises himself as worth enough in
himself for a girl to sacrifice her
money to live with him-well, the I'M
abridged does not furnish it. Jack Ass
in billboard letters would come nearer
TO 1t than anything that occurs to me
now. I'm not afraid to say 1t, for |
know you'd never cause any girl to
give up her fortune without knowing
ut least whether you could replace 1t
or not"
Alan arose and paced the room.
SThat" he said as he stood between
The lace curtains at the window, against
which the rain beat steadily-"that IL
why | feel so blue. ! don't believe
Colonel Barclay would ever forgive
her. and I'd die before I'd make her
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