The evening world., 1912-10-21
Marguerite Mooers Marshall


VIII women cease 70 lover
Mrs. Gertrude Anterior. the celebrated
novelist, 10 convinced that they will.
Writing in a current magazine. Mrs.
Anterior asserts: Romantic love may
be said TO be on Its last logs. The fght
for tho vote has nothing TO do with II,
being as II In but a symptom OF the
general development OF the female mind
toward independence. II requires no
gift OF prophecy 10 see that the time Is
at hand when woman will weigh man
before shc fails in love with him.
Man won't like this state of affairs.
Mrs. Artherton admits. FOR man IL in
curably romantic, old-fashioned, idealis-
tic" But the coming marriage. a. she
secs II. will be without 4 spark OF
romance and almost as little passion.
There win be no high flights. no period
Of glowing anticipation. of dreams and
ideaiizing."
DO not know whether . frank IN
ability to appreciate the ramount
claims OF love 10 indigenous to the fem
-inims literary temperament. or whether
the altitude 10 simply characteristic OF
'the years that bring tho philosophic
mind" But In support Of Mrs. Ather-
tons hypothesis. two women writer's
have recently informed me that . soil
tary ife on a desert isle would suit
them perfectly we'll II they were suf-
fciently supplied with pens and paper
pads. confess I can't aSree with
them.
GRADUAL DISAPPEARANCE OF
LOVE 10 TOO MUCH.
Neither can Mrs. Louise Closser Hale.
whose recent novel. Her soui and
Body" marks ~ author a. an eager
roananticist.
Il admire Mr.. Anterior Immensely"
she told ne. but I confess can't fol-
low her on this matter of the gradual
disappear ance Of love.
''TAs nost resnAA1o woman IN
~ world - he woman n sasa-
Asss - ysefssslenal Me. xAks
| ~ eAsgsAaA bun. sAs wsaSs d.
fsaslve asno1 - tFotsst hsrSsl3
from xaAsly tearing haAAs. Dut
11slAs tAsss - plsaty a 0wsstasss
anA tsaAsgAsss waAtAnG for Tie
ysssoa VINO sueossAs n ssttAg
paSe ne ysask1ss."
Yet, according to xrs. Athsrton. th
pricklss thsmssivss-&hat 70, . down
r1sht manner and freokiss on ones nos
ARE doing ths,r part In sxtingaishini
romance" I objected. she says the
ere disiliusionisins and vnssductive."
Mrs.. Hale laughed shyiy. She. by tn
way, shows no ''prickles." despite he
years Of achievement a. actress. write
and editor. Her cheeks are a. pink an
her nsure a. slender a. those Of IN
white-muslined heroine OF tho three
volume novel. and there 70 nothing tn
least bit aggressive in her voice {
manner.
"But don't you know" she was .,
planning, that . man never falls
love with q woman for the graces Oh
2 actually possesses. but only for thoi
with which he endows herr What dot
Il matter II her manner Is downrigl
. to the point of bluntnessf Her low
will rave about her 'hne sincerity az
, II she has large, brown, numerous free
less all over her face he'll write . Dol
, net to her sun-kissed smile No. "
0 take stronger evidence than this
prove that romance 10 near it, last gas
II do think tho character Of romano
. u changing. just a. think hums
nature u changing. We're grown
b more intelligent all tho time. But
don't believe we're shedding our III
4 sions, or. at least. We don't stop VII
, shedding them. We build more oea
. ufu and truthful ones. Our ide
need not bs silly: not even II It II u
= IDEAL one forms of ones lover. 1t n.
q be q help and . comfort both to q
= ono who loves and the one who
y loved.
l. IT 10 DIFFICULT TO GET AhEA
" OF NATURE.
y 'Myv. Atherton very truthfully o
% serves that It - dlfncuit TO GET ahe
= OF nature ia 20 even further and Q
q that it's next door to impossible. /
believe Tremendously in woman's pow
n of development believe she - Il
X making hsrsslf mans mental equal.
IN shs has not already reached that sta
a. I believe, OF course. that she viii sho
Il Granted Insurance