Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-05-27

his old maid
against that pioneer of modern romantic commune
cation, the railroad. Just surely his 1901 turner
proved himself romantic painter, not by his ram
bows his Italian sunsets, but by that picture OF
Storm, Rain, and Speed an old-tasmoned exc
press fighting its way through WIND, ram, ana OF
course ranbows-in the English National Gallery
With ali his love of that light that never was on
sea or land Turner was yet able to see the romance
of that thing of iron and steam SO attrghtng TO
other of his generation: lover OF hight IN all
its swift prismatic changes, he naturally lover
of speed He realized that speed was one OF the
two most romantic things in the world. The other
is irnmoblity At present the two extremes OF ro-
mantle expression are the Sphinx and-the auto
mobile Unless you realize that an automobile
is romantic than stage-coach, you know
nothing about romance. Soon the automoDile WI, II,
have its nose put by the alrsh1p, and we snail
not need to be ong-liVed to see the day when we
shall hear old-timers lamentng the good old easy
going past of the seventy miles an hour automobile
Just as we have heard our grandtathers talk OF
positions and the Bath flyer.
Romance is made of two opposites; Change and
That Which Changeth Not. In spite OF tootsh
sentimentalism who needs be told that love is one
of those forces of the universe that the same yester
day. to-day, and forever-the same to-day as when
Dido broke her heart, or when Leander swan tne
Hellespont? Gravitat1on IS not more inherent III
the cosmic scheme nor fire water more unchange-
able in their qualities.
But Love, contrary to the old notion that he is
impractical is a busness-ke god, and is ever on the
lookout for the latest modern appliances that can
in ANYWAY serve his purposes. True love is lar
from helm old fashioned.
love is always up-to-date True love has It's tele-
phone its phonograph, its automobile and soon 1t
will have its air-ship In the telephone alone what
a debt love owes to its supposed enemy modern 1
science One wonders how lovers in the old days
managed to live at all without the telephone.
We often hear how modern appliances wear
upon our nerves But think how the lack OF modern
appliances must have worn upon the nerves OF our
forefathers and particularly foremothers! Think
what distance meant in the Middle Ages, when the
news of a battle took days to travel though carried
bv the swiftest horses Horsesi Think again OF
news being carried by-horses! And once more
think, with prayer of gratitude to two maglclans
named Edison and Bell, and with due sense OF
your being the spoiled and petted offspring OF the
painful ages that should your love be IN Omaha TINS
night and you in New York City, you can say good
night to her through the wall of your apartment,
and hear her sigh back her goodnight to you
across two thousand miles of the American nag
Or should your love be the you can interrupt
her firtatons all the way across with your per
sistent wireless conversation. Contrast your lux
urous commissioners with the case OF the
lovers of old-time Say that you
have just married young woman,
! !. ! ! !. !. &
and YOU are happy together in your = IL q
castle in the heart of the forest GAIN Ia
Suddenly the courier of is at [ANyF
your gates, and you must up and arm Wy &Y
and away with your to the 81 ~
distant danger. You must follow III -
the Cross into the savage Kingdom &w7A
of the Crescent. The husband must tF&
become the crusader, and the Lord
Christ alone knows when he shall look the
child's face of his wife again Through goblin
haunted wildernesses he must go, through unmapped
no-man's lands, and solitudes of the world S
end, and peril and pestence meet in every FORM
he of his foe the friendiiest thing in all his