Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1903-08-01

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"It's none of nny business" Miller burst
ont suddenly
and water diet for awhile, but she'll
lose flesh and temper in the long run.
If YOU don't make as much money for
her as you cause her to lose, she'll tell
you of it some day or, at least, let you
see it, and that's as long as it's wide.
You are now giving yourself treat
ment in self hypnotism, telling yourself
that life has not and cannot produce
thing for you beyond that particular
pink frock and yellow head. l know
how you feel. I've been there six diff
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 momentary throe
when see q fresh one in a train for
an hours ride 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 devilish ex-
perience do me?" said Alan inpatient
ly.
1T would fit any mans case If he'd
only believe it. I've made 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. don't mean that no
lovers Of the ideal, sentimental brand
are ever happy after marriage, but l
do believe that open eyed courtsh1p
will beat the blind sort all hollow and
that in nine cases out of ten, If people
were mated by law according to the
Judgment of sensible. open eyed ju-
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 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 a 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
l think you are off. know what's
the matter with you-you have simply
frittered away your heart, your ability
to love and appreciate good woman.
Thank heaven. your experience has not
been mine! / 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 flirtations you've in
dulged in-that Is. If they were mine"
"There you CO." laughed Miller.
"Make 1t personal. That's the only
way the average lover argues. l am
speaking in general terms. Let me fin
ish. Take two eXamples-frst, the
chap crazily In love. who faces life
with the red rag of his infatuation-
his girl. No parental objection, every
thing smooth and a 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 it 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 hu-
man, and not the highest order at
that. For awhile they have siege Of
discomfort, wondering where it's all
gone, Finally the man is forced to
20 about his work, and the woman
gets to making things to 90 on the
backs Of chairs and trying to spread
her trouSseau over the next year, and
they begin TO court resignation. Now,
II 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 OH one side,
Doodle OH 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 it
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 al!