El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-09-09
FALLING IN LOVE
By THE GENTLEwOMAN.
- HERE is tendency among mod
ern writers to make falling in
love" unfaShiOnable Already

- HERE is tendency among. mod
ern writer's to make failing in
u love- questionable. Already
there is an almost old world
flavor about the phrase. Pastors have
Investigated love with brutal matter Of
factness and have declared that it is
a disease like meaSels or chickenpox
Writers like George Bernard Shaw are
tic sort by ridicule. This attitude is
reflected on the stage. Actor manag-
ers declare that what the public wants
is not to see a man making love, but
to see him making money. The hero
is no longer a charming bat poverty
stricken young man, battling brayely
with adversely. He is ''pushfuP' in
dividual with a keen eye to business
In world thus scientifically shorn
of all that is magical or miraculous.
where fairies are not fashionable, and
where a practical explanation can
be found for everything in heaven
earth, 1t is small wonder that love
finds but scant sympathy. However,
now that DIR. Josiah Oldfield has de-
clared that failing in love" is con-
BILE that the old custom may be re-
vived. If DR.. Oldfields contention is
right there is something to be got
out of it, and practical considera-
tons weigh heavily with the young
people of today.
whether DR.. Oldfield is right. Poets
have seldom sung of the happiness or
health giving properties OF love. 1T
is to be all made of signs and tears,
lover signing like furnace" why
so pale and wan fond lover, pray thee
why so pale?" sang Sucking in the
sixteenth century, MY heart IL
in the Scottish ballad. Always if the
poets tell US truly. the strangeness.
sadness and sorrow of love far exceed
the Joy and gladness, always the thin
the melancholy mien are it's outward
and visible signs. Whether the love
is requited or unrequited, the effect
is the same
jealousy is the almost invariable
accompaniment OF love: TRIES llgnr
into despair blacker than starless
midnight. The lover often finds that
he has entered house OF bondage.
and that the garland of flowers he
donned so lightly has transformed it
self into iron chains
However, it is a mistake to general
ize about love, for no two people love
alike; some never at all. To one per-
son love is a tragedy, to another 1T
inspiration, filling them with a desire
to achieve great things, to do noble
deeds. On another it has quite an OPP
posite effect. paralyzlng action, ana
ample of this in the hero in Charles
McEvoy's play, '-All That Matters"
Even though he knows his love is re-
turned, he allows his farm to go to
rock and ruin, because love is all
that matters to him. Some are slain
by love as by sword
All people do not love like the
poets or the romanticists, which is per-
haps as well for the sum total of
happiness of the human race. There
are thousands of practical, unimagin-
alive people whose love affairs are en-
tirely undisturbed by heights of joy or
deaths of woe They have taken a
fancy" to each other and this gives
a quiet, gentle jog trot happiness to
their lives which makes for an ex-
cel1ent digestion and an admirable cir
culation But this is not the love
strong as death" of which the poets
sing; it has nothing to do with the
sorrow Of the soul.