The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1909-09-28
AN EDITORIAL BY a WOMAN
BY DOROTHY DALE.

BY DOROTHY DALE
Every woman and most men who this biz Of sentiment
Just out OF Wisconsin will smile liteindulgenty
Then they stop think ofoh we'll TO think OF the
things everybody thinks of sometimes though they'd
show il.
The story was dated at Nunah Wis It read;
"The wedding the spot where they when the groom
saved the bride will eliminate the Of Chas
Cehurty OF this city and Amy Johnson OF Salt Lake City
he two were guests hotel in the earthquake
district of San Francisco The heard the
the hotel walls fell and fire erept lie rescued her. and
her letter OF thanks when she learned his led to the
osd meeting"
Now don't you find yourself smiling aud lingering litte1
If YOU don't you belong coes there's hope
them
course this do what would be practical
y impossible for the majority The fact that they go the
Golden Gate where they first looked into each others eyes
say those Il Wills carrying sentiment farther than most
could afford But the distance covered the OF the
place the important things in this The fine thing
about that they willing to let their feelings manage
the affair at all
There is only thing this brilliant struggling age OF
progress sadder than the way people marry. That the way
people do after they married
Everything patterned the business world Its hurry
and are stamped even on the wedding
Most of the marriages statistics show made in places
than the dull back offices of the church
Justices
Then after the schedule ceremony whatP Too often
just endless scheme OF scheduletme kisses and work and
worry and deprivation and loss OF liberty with little
spontaneous gift pretty compliment mpulsve
thrown cheer and brighten the way And ii this
enough misunderstanding and
disputes and explanations crop till finally explanations
longer explain.
And all for the want Of daily expression Of the sentiment
that there the II wasn't there there should have
been
When a man looks at a woman only beauty where
others fault of line coorng she is beautiful And when
looks and strength and neness where
IA he
right sentiment has made each what the other
For sentiment after ALL is the blessed pair OF magic spec
acles cooed deep beautiful with the first flush Of love
Those through them things where
others only gray And what looks rose
But that doesn't the siekIy senmenaly attacked
by the scoers.
them lines about the perand-nk de-
voon OF the Italian poet Petrarch for Laura Of his
time, which he intended to be Illuminating They were.
This is what he wrote:
Think you if Laura had been Petrarch's wife,
He would have written to her all his liieS"
OF he wouldn't have no one would have been
better pleased than Laura herself a the omission.
Love can't be written It has be lived It's living Of
that gives that perfect understanding that
Of explanations and back talk
The ganst cheek is too big to be
mapped and carpentered i4ne ballad silence
tells story eloquent than all Of the words written
spoken could ever do.
II says: Il know things have gone awry know there
mistakes know have done things that ought
have done and left undone what should have been accomplished
But those the things OF today aud today will
every day while this dear is Of today and and all
the todays and tomorrows that yet shall be-
Just little sentiment. that's the world needs
Just little loving thought expressed in trivial attentions
Just little keep the pecacles Of
loves first blush bright for everyday
Just little less of iron and steel and
dinner parties and fine rament and little worth
Of flesh and blood