Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-19
Love S Sense of
Humor
By BEATRICE FAIRFAX.

NJ. man q years Of age, and
am In love with a girl four
years my junior. ! told her love her.
and when I asked If she loved me she
said, Yes She always says Yes when
ask her. but she always says IT with
= laugh. Do you think she really loves
me?"
You are the most fortunate of men,
-ad don't know It. Not the faintest
suspicion Of your good fortune crosses
our brain. AID. indeed, YOU are so
brad that YOU almost complain.
yea are loved by a woman With
sense Of humor. II every man before
YOU had been loved by woman with
grain of Wit. what different story
had been told.
There is so much 10 laugh at IN that
which your sex calls Love" that the
woman who csn begin laughing at It in
her girlhood DAYS and continue laugh
ing tin her eyes close forever, has
solved the greatest problem life offers
her sex The beggar Who pleads for
penny and who can laugh at the coun-
terfeit dollar pressed In his nsnd is not
as great a philosopher.
She Knows.
You tell her you love her. and down
in your heart you believe you have
done her a great honor That is the
first Joke. No wonder she laughs. for
she knows that she has honored you by
accepting your attentions. She knows,
for the eyes Of those who have a sense
OF humor are keen. that when man
offers a woman his love II is equiva-
lent TO Offering her a chance TO slave
without wages, TO taste humiliation,
despair and defeat, 10 know mental and
physical suffering more poignant than
the unmarried woman ever knows
She will be desplsed unless she bears
you children. and cruclned II she does.
She must be cook housekeeper. maid,
governess, nurse, seamstress, laundress
and companion FOR nothing more than
her clothes and board
"Wiu you be all this to me" you ask
her and in return accept my Iove?"
No wonder she laughs. Wouldn't you
laugh. my dear young man. az the child
who asked you 10 trade your diamond
for his cheap glass marble? You OFFER
her something not as lasting as the
marble I'm return for her hearts blood.
She agreed 10 make the trade. and
she laughed very good sign that
she realizes the injustice Of the bargain
in the beginning. A proof that she will
go on laughing when your love grows
cold.
Her eyes are opened. She Is not ac-
cepting your love believing that when
the wedding ring IS placed on her finger
she viii float away 10 fields OF Elysian
bliss and never know work or worry
or deprivation or sorrow again. She
has no Illusions, and you will be spared
the complaints OF one who is disillu-
stoned. She will continue to laugh
when the long. long days and the longer
nights OF despair would drive other
women TO the divorce court or pouring
acid into mail boxes.
Be Humble, Man.
You do not believe your love is OF
that kind? Perhaps not. but only the
future may bring proof You want to
make her happy. I am sure. but isn't 1t
starting Just little bit wrong 10 COM
plain because she laughs? You surely
know that the years don't ofrer much
To inspire merrlment in man or woman,
even when at their best, yet you grum-
BILE because OF her mir;h. DO you think
your avowal Of love such a weighty,
serious, impressive thing that she
would accept It with long face
Would you have her come into your
arms as one going TO tho mourners'
bench
Isn't It better to be the rarest OF all
human specimens, humble man, and
be tust a little bit grateful that
bright thinking girl, one who has the
brains TO think. and the courage TO
laugh at the knowledge, loves your
She loves you, That is enough for
YOU TO know. II she loves you as a
good Joke. the greater your fortune, for
IL Is human nature 20 love good joke
a little longer than most things. We
are patient when no one else appre-
ciates our good Joke We never lose
faith in ats value ms a good Joke, and
we preserve II carefully. never letting
the memory Of its slightest detail be-
come furnished. We are proud that We
possess Il: we laugh at II many times
in secret and are not abashed nor cast
down when others fail TO smile, know
ing it's failure TO be more due TO their
dullness than to fits lack OF luster.
And IN this way she loves YOU. She
win love YOU when others despise YOU;
she will have faith when others east
YOU on she VIII know YOUR merit
though tho world doubts YOU have any.
and she viii have faith In you TO tho
lsst.
lie grateful oh. so grateful. young
man, that YOU have given your heart in
keeping Of woman who accepts il
with laugh.