The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1905-03-24

an hours ride. | can do you a lot OF
good if you'n 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.
''It would fit any mans case If 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, If people
were mated by law according to the
judgment of a 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 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 a seat that
won't support her dead, material
weight frankly believe that the
glamour of love is simply sort of .n-
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
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 pure wife In the face and re-
member all the fiirtations you've IN
dulged in-that is. If they were mine"
There you CO." laughed Miller.
snake 1t personal. That's the only
way the average lover argues. l am
speaking in general terms. Let me fin
ish. Take two examples-first, the
chap crafty In love, who faces life
with the red rag of his infatuation--
his girl. No parental objection, every
thing smooth and 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 hu-
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 to 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 a better example to
other plungers. Now for the second
Poverty on one side,
Doodle on the other; more glamour
than in other case because of the gulf
between. They get married; they have
nwv1r Nv1h Cd hn rfYr Ion /
that the Lord Is at the bottom of 1t
ana that the glamour is ms smIIe /.
Like the other couple, their eyes are
finally opened to the facts, and they
begin to secretly wonder what it's all
about. The one with Tie 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 has an
eye for earthly values-and good bust
ness men have-there will be times
when he will envy Jones, whose wife
mad as many rocks as Jones Love
and capital go together like rain and
sunshine; they are productive of some
hing. Then If the woman has the
Tic ndon tnClC !
ragedy-a slow cutting of threats.
She is irresistibly drawn with the rest
# the world into the thought that she
las tied herself and her money to an
lutomaton. for such men are invari
IDLY lifeless. They seem to lose the
aculty of earning money-in any other
way And as for proper title for the
young idiot that publicly ad
'ertises himself as worth enough, in
himself, for a girl to sacrifice her
money to live with him.-well, the I'M
Ibridged does not furnish it. Jack Ass
n billboard letters would come nearer
o 1t than anything that occurs to me
low. I'm not afraid to say it, for |
now you'd never cause any girl to
i've up her fortune without knowing
It least whether you could replace 1t
II not"
Alan arose and paced the room.
That" he said as be stood between
he lace curtains at the window. against
which the rain beat steadily-'that is