El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-11-28
Loves Small Ironies
Beatrice Fairfax Tells Why They Add Test to Life
By BEATRICE FAIRFAX

w THY in the human round Of
Nv things is the old jingle sadly
true-"For loved Tom and
Tom loved Bee and Bee loved Arthur
and Arthur loved mel"
Why is it one of life's pet ironies
that when perfectly worth while and
IoVeable man loves a girl she must
pour out her affections at the tramp
ling feet of some scOundrel?
And why, oh why, does the splendid.
woman who would make him an ideal
mate, and lavish his great gift of love
upon peach blossom person with
butterfly soul?
To Keep Lies Test.
Why? To keep the Zest in life. To
keep US running after the rainbow pot
Of gold To keep US hoping for the
ideal love and happiness that may
charm of uncertainty that life would
lack if all mating were a sane and
well ordered thing where each of us
married the obvious person and set
tied down to the utter boredom of a
life like a series of blue skied, sunlit
warm June days.
Because life is not an obvious. cut
to measure thing; because love is not
a well ordered affair in which like
seeks like; because the human soul is
stimulated by the gamblers chance"
of happiness, we escape perishing of
ennui
When it seems not ironical and bit
ter jest, but cruel tragedy that you
should love some one to whom you
feel sure that you could bring su-
pTeme blessing with your love the
! while they love some worthless per
son, just make up your mind to these
! things:
Out of the sorrow of hopeless love,
strength, serenity sympathy and splen-
! did lOveableness may be brought by
| the woman who is fine enough to rise
! above sorrow instead of letting it drag
| her down.
In the contamination of what seems
pefect love the utter disappointment
! of life might linger.
In losing the person you think you
might love-though you have moth
] ing but your own fancy on which to
build-you are getting splendid train
/ ing to enable you to give the lness
| Of love to the right man when he
] comes.
It is a pretty wasteful proceeding
I t. go on cUltivating a love that is
! not wanted and closing your eyes to
/ the things that might satisfy you if
[ you gave them a chance.
But when you get all through philo-
| sophiZing there remains the supreme
] 'WHYT' Why-if I am given the
| power of loving, cannot 1 attract love?
| asks one lonely heart. Why-if
| know I could love p man unselfiShly
| and strongly must he waste his affec-
| ton on someone else who does not
| care for him any more than he does
for me- pleads another.
Humanity has not quite worked out
/ the answer.
| It would be much more efficient to
I turn your love where it is desired. It
may be wiser to give when you are
sure of receiving in return. It might
| Re pleasanter if the power of loving
/ postulated the power of attracting
| love.
But as long as human nature re-
| mains human nature. a rose will be
| lovelier because it does not live for
| ever and because it's fragrance is elu-
sive and not to be reproduced. The
| beauty of a sunset is enhanced by the
| fact that it must soon fade. Sunshine
| is more glorious because the storm
| clouds are capable of blotting it out
| in a short time.
| Pursuing the Elusive.
The elusive, the unattainable. the
I inaccessible, charm our hearts. We