Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-08-08

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"It's none of my business" Miller burst
! out suddenly.
There are simply two courses open to
you, my boy. One is to treat Colonel
Barclays wishes with dignified respect
and bow and retire just as any Eu-
ropean gentleman would do when told
that his pile was too small to be con-
sidered"
"And the other?' asked Alan sharp.
ly.
1.-THE other is to follow in the foot
steps of nearly every sentimental fool
that ever was born and go around look
ing like last years birds nest or
| worse yet, persuading the girl to elope
| and thus angering her father so that
he will cut her out OF what's coming
to her and what is her right, my boy.
She may be willing to live on a bread
| and water diet for awhile, but she'll
lose flesh and temper in the long run.
| II 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
meat in self hypnotism, telling yourself
| that life has not and cannot produce
thing for you beyond that particular
pink frock and yellow head. know
how you feel. I've been there six diff
! ferent times, beginning with q 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 l see a fresh one in train for
an hours ride. can do you a lot Of
good If you'll listen to me. FIJI give you
the benefit Of my experience"
"What good would your devilish ex-
perience do me?" said Alan Impatient
~.
1T would fit any mans case If he'd
only believe 1t. 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. I 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, 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 tho Cono ndunrf NCho,, cho1k
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 it's
! cold glitter, while a 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
a 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 of. I 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 pure wife in the face and re-
member all the firtat3ons you've In
@dulged in-tAat is, II they were nine"
There you 60" laughed Miller.
MAKE It personal. That's the only
way the average lover argues. am
speaking In general terms. Let me fin.
ish. Take two .examples-f1rst, the
chap crafty 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 ID the
three dollar seats. They soon tire Of.
themselves and lay It TO the trip. Bv-
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..
imam, and not the highest order at
that. For awhile they have q siege Of
discoptent wondering where ito all