Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1909-12-10

N'h THROW we Ih'dII ul AtHF U'du-
tia. young love To swine. who Will
Only tramp.r it into unr"cu-nillhlr
filth.
Now let rs turn to Il more tragic
side Of this great subject. There is a
certain awkward male being who.
ever since party 70 which | didn t
90, has discovered that am excel
lent company, and comes toSrc mo
me, mind, on the very evening OF
the week On which he knows | am
most engaged. He Processes and. |
believe, entcrtains Il very warm re-
gard for me. Shall tell You the
reason OF that regard? II is simply
that whenever pat my hand upon
the handle of a door, upcring into a
room where he and certain fair
relative of mine are sitting. I'm
troubled with most distressing
cough. and stand barking on the
doOrmat outside for fully Il quarter
OF Il minute We're the two sitting
onlya moderate distance apart when
| do, at last. turn the handle and
enter, might have been delcdcd
into thinking that they were only
looking over the photograph album
together But when see five feet
OF stage green sofa spreading. like a
mimic sea. between them, | cannot
help wondering whether they were
sitting quite as far apart before |
entered And when they appeal rx-
citcdly to me to give my casting vote
whether the picture of little Tom is
more like his father or his mother, |
cannot help wondering why we all
think that though other people 5
little ruscs are as transparent as
daylight, ours are the only ruScS that
cannot be seen through.
The young man of whom | am
speaking is apparently of the opinion
that the triiling number of years
cher whole life. in fact during which
| have known my relative. scarcely
qualities me To form an exact c>ti-
mate Of her many merits, and he
frequently enlightens me in regard
TO her hitherto unsupported virtues.
DO you think | write him down "A
doting fool? Not a bit. and | will
tell you why. but let me begin to do
so by asking you question: If the
devil were in need of lie, where do
you think he would look for it?
Among the recorded words of false
prophets and false teachers of all
time? Not he! He would turn over
some musty, fuSty collection of so
called truths, and it would not be
long before he found something to
suit his purpose. How many nun
dreds or thousands of years is it
since we were first told that love is
blind?' am afraid cannot say.
but be the time as long as it may,
do not hesitate to give that ancient
adagc the lie.
Love is not blind Every mother
sees Il beauty in her own baby that
no one else Sces. Everyone who is
truly IN love sees something more
beautiful in the character or in the
countenance of the loved one than is
apparent to the rest of the world.
Is this due to blindness ? No. If
'twere SO. it would mean that the
adagc has thrown dust into our eyes.
SO to speak; has fooled US. hood
winked us. to make us think we see
something that is not really there.
The explanation is that love does not
dim but makes keen the vision.
All the beauty that the mother
sees in her child, that the lover sees
in his loved one, is really there to
those from whose eyes the scales
have fallen. Love is a revelation.
1t is the opening of the eyes that
makes visible the angel which lies
hidden away in every human heart.
Love may be defined as the poetry
OF sex, but it is more than that. 1t
is conservation rs well as pas
sion. | have heard what in the re-
ligious sense is called conversion
described as new birth" In COM
pairing the change which is wrought
in a man S soul by religion, | am
conscious of no irreverence. If
conversion" can be described us the
new birth of the soul, surely love
is the new birth of the heart, for
with the coming of love the world is
made anew. Till then, merely to re-
frain from what is evil, is too often
the measure of ones content; but
when love comes. with its purifying
fire, the lover, who loves truly can
not tolerate even SO much Us Il mo-
ment's entertainment of base or
mean thought
Though the days of knigh;hood and
chivalry be gone, true knighthood
and true chivalry endure, for wher-
ever youth goes forth to do battle
with evil for the SAKE of the pure love
he bears a maidcn-there rides Sir
Galahad in white armour.
TIE largest wooden building in
the world is the Parliament building
at Wellington. New Zealand