The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1911-07-28
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BRQkE|N HEARTS

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The writer saw several years ago
the heaptlfni and eel ehrated palltifg
ss.The Lost Soul showing the telible
despair OF man who HAD lost thesnpst
God.glying thing In this or etei1ii
THAT which had been With him ever
since the light Of day had shone upon
his fair young face; that something
which had spured him on and upward
on brought him down In; despair and
when he had run his course had
fought a poor fight he lay down and
died while his soul The Lost Soul
suffered through ages the torments OF
he'll. .t5a.. Il
The picture Is most inspiring
piece OF art and no, one With a spark,
OF sentiment In his heart can long,
look upon. It without feeling a deep
reverence for the artist who wrought
the Observation-Disclosures painting to.
such perfection.
The picture Is after this lie has
fled. But how about the living hell
while one soul Is yet In his body? Isl
it not possible for this soul In the
body to suffer as much before 1t shall
rhaye waned, its flight into the Dee
yond? A4.S 4
Probably, the next thing to The
Lost SOUP picture Is another painting
showing broken heart. Would not
these two paintings though one only
rs a masterpiece-go, well together,
one telling of the tortures. Of lie on
earth and! the other Of the suffering in
eternity? a
I. 'Tistas living hell for one to- de by;
degrees. A broken Hmbswill mend and
men, with, broken, backs, and even broles
en- necks have lived out their allotted
days but twlfeTesiis that woman or
man with a broken heart that has not
been like the house builded upon tleI
sand. soon to be swept down into the
stream of eternity and his poor rest
less body dropepdi into the whirlpool
Of oblivion? m. ,y., ii
The West NirgIniau carried a story
the other day Of a, letter, written by
a poor mother imploripg her boy to-
come home that the, doctors said that
|his, fathan was slowly; dying Of a brok
en- heart When the ear aches It Is
said sweet oil, will generally allay the
pain. when ones tooth aches there
kls. usually, something that will stop IL
q a dentist with good strong, arm
can. But is there any remedy this1
side OF death that will stop the aching
Of the heart? The, only doctor who
can cure such Is the old gentleman
with the long whlskers, the ihourglass1
and the scythe whom Longfe elbow called
IKE death Reaper He. can, stop. all
kinds of body aches Be thai as It'll
NAV, none. who are now reading this
have ever had him, to! take whack
at them with hisiscythe but he'll bel
around al, due time. fs
It's a peculiar thing, hut neyerthe-
NESS GEue,s IilkAL ~ VuE5, EtGttt H0O1tf HiBl
HI low young or old tliat'4is immune
from having broken. heart. 'TIs thel
wearing away Of the heart, the very
llife's blood Is sapped away. by de-
grees. It may be an aged, fatherfwhol
|has reached the Biblical, age Of threeI
score and ten whose heart by some
Incident is broken: It may besasmoth-
er in the prime Of womanhood. and III
may be one Just IN the happiest part
of his or her life, There are eompapas
live few who died. Of broken hearts
from the death OF a loved one, for:liv-I
ing trouble is worse than death torl
the grave, so to. speak, closes ALL A
mother who loves her boy, who, is, the
pride OF, her heart, a, solace to her ex-
Iistence and an Inspiration to her soul
becomes involved in trouble and with
| ali her pieadings and prayers he COM
tlnues to 90 downward. the. path Of
Ihell and destruction that woman in
the majority Of cases lust pines away