The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-02-09

Tt is safer to starve love than to sur felt it"
 See how 1t works--for while,
 There is a very clever passage in one of Somerset Maughams plays in which the husband pushing aside his dessert swears he never wants to see a straw berry ice again.
 But" says his adorlng wife, q thought you were.yery fond of strawberry ice?"
 T am," snapped the disgusted husband. but three times day, u-g-g-h!"
 II is one Of the divine inconsistencies of man that he never wants very much of what is his for the taking.
 A man dreams of the one woman whom he would liked to have kissed, and for gets the hundreds whom he has-em- braced.
 So, if you want to kill. draw and quar- ter Love, Miss Annabele just let the ob- iect of your. adoration come and spend Sunday afternoon and Sunday evening in your society," And love that wouldn't yawn itself to death under those cir cumstances, pardon me for saying so, would be stupid, unimaginative-bore! In the first place, young lady, the big gest mistake that any woman can make is to give up everything and everybody for one man!
 Somebody has said about marriage:
 That it is giving up the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.''
 Of course, I know all you ask is just to be the 'ony woman," but is there ever an .only woman?"
 In a most wonderfully written novel of the year a wise student of human nature tells a certain woman that man is "a most curious creature"
 '.I don't know why says she. "A dog that has perfectly good home will throw it aside to rush in and try to take an- other home not half so good, away from three other dogs that are all trying to get it.''
 The inference is,e of course that the average man shows the same traits.
 If Miss Annabele will just get busy and begin powdering her nice little nose and industriously set to work to be nice and take an interest in some of the men she used" to be interested in, instead of pining away for the lone man she is en- gagged to, why Mr. Indifferent would soon begin to sit up and take notice!
 If this be treason, then let some other woman tell the truth!
 Perhaps Annabelle will say:
 "If I did that, though, he might see a loophoe and escape, and I'd lose him. Or maybe it would hurt him and couldn't do that!''
 You couldn't hurt him half as bad as he is hurting you and for once in your life show a little selfshness. Mark my words. it will bring him to his senses
 Why, just take his hard, old, indifferent heart and slam it down on the ground two or three times and then send him packing away so quick he won't know where he is going, and you'll see what happens!
 And after all, maybe the man loves you, who knows?
 They are mighty curious, they are. and most of them save all the flowers tiA you are dead and gone anyway, rather than strew them in your path while you are living!
 Suppose l follow your advice, l can hear Annabelle saying, land I lose him? It will break my heart completely
 Oh, no, it won't hurt you half that Lad. In the first place you shouldn't have waited for advice as to how to treat man that was that indifferent. Why, the very idea! You have too much self respect to be treated so, and besides even if you did lose him, you ought to thank your stars that you discovered his na- ture before you married him, rather than walk beside him down the slope of life knowing that you were hanging heavy on his arm!
 Aye, there's the rub!
 And with this perfectly good Beatrice Reeswax- Ella -Willer-Wheelcox advice, I crave your leniency, Miss Annabelle!