El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-08-05

(6VT THOM," is one of the first
w questions asked a child, do
w you Iove?"
There is a sudden clasping Of little
arms around the mothers neck, child
ish lips are pressed against her cheek
and there comes the whispered re-
spouse, You"
It is the first word childhood hears
love" It has been a life that was
misspent if IL is not the last.
The journey through life is only
few hours as compared with eternity,
but it is long and weary as we meas
ure it with our short sighted eyes.
To amuse ourselves we invent many
diversions, hoping to find happiness
in fame, wealth, pleasure, ambition,
and when these fail We ask forgetful-
ness in work
But nothing IS worth while moth
ing satisfies. though we gain all that
we lOnged for unless We also have
love.
It Iightens the burdens. It iIlumines
the dark places It gives purpose to
the purpOseless- It is the source and
the sustenance of faith, courage, hope,
ambition, patience and every ennobling
quality.
1t Gives Courage.
without love wealth is poverty, with
love, poverty is wealth. It puts cOur-
age in the veins of the coward. It
makes a man rise above himself. It
is the Transforming wand of the only
good fairy the times have left US.
Love yOuthifies. Though one be old
and Wrinlzled and bowed with the
years. one is not old so long as there
remains in the heart a reverence for
love. The young woman who SCOTS
at it is older than her grandmother
who trusts and believes.
It beauties The plainest woman
becames beautiful when she loves and
is loved.
Love strengthens. The mother
never tires, though she works every
hour, because she is strengthened by
love. The husband and father is per
sistent in the face of encouragement
for those he loves.
It enthuSes. No man is a good work
man if he has only himself to provide
for. The best workman is the man
It is the universal gift. and one
which depends not upon the within or
caprice of some tickle goddess that
presided at our births, but upon our
selves We were born for love, and
all we need do is to believe and it is
It is independent of social position.
age, color or warmth. The love that
comes to the maid is just as sweet
as that which comes to her mistress,
and just as true. There is more Of it
in the home Of the poor than in the
home of the wealthy.
It is about the only thing in life
that defies a bank account One is
never defeated so long as one loves.
The failures. the loafers. the drunk
ards are those who do not love.
The Greatest Thing.
If there were no such thing as love.
the chrUches and theaters would close
and the printing presses would stop.
It is not only the greatest thing in
life; it is life itself, and the world
revolves around it.
It is the hope Of youth and the
comfort of old age. All along the
way there is nothing that will take
loves place
The young woman is stretching out
her arms to welcome it. The older
woman owes it to her younger sister
to forget loves bitterness and dis
appointments, and meet her with SYM
pathy and understanding in the great
est experience life holds
The old owe it to themselves to
have faith in il. They owe it to their
juniors to express that faith often.
The mother or father who holds that
a marriage for wealth or social posi-
ton is more desirable than one for
love is not fit TO he parent
It is an injustice to the son and
daughter more tragic in its results
than beating a child.