The Washington herald., 1914-04-11
LAURA JEAN LBBEYS
4e1DAILY TALKSON HEARISeR
Rgs TOPICS 3SR
Forever. fortune. wilt thou prove
An unrelenting foe 10 love;

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O0me in between and bid US part"
It's an old trite but true saying that
there are few women in the world who
have not indulged in needless grieving
over some ne-er-do-well, fickle man. In
their lonely moments, they worry over
what might have been.
They wonder IL he ever gives a thought
TO the sweetheart Of other days. and
would live over the tender, beautiful
past again, if it were possible. She
remembers every spoken word of love.
all the sentiment that was in his let
tiers and her happiness in his presence
in those other days
She ponders over the triie which part
ed them. The thought flashes across her
minds il too late for fate TO be kind 10
her? Is there a way of bridging over
the past and becoming reconciled with
each other? She has never been able
to become interested in any other man.
Each and every one has suffered in eom-
parison with him. The man whose mem
ory is still in her heart had a nature
which attached itself to hers. He was
sympathetic, generous, courteous as a
carpet knight of old. He studied her
every wish. and was never wanting I'm
his efforts TO add to her comfort. Jeal-
ousy. which has parted so many lovers,
caused their estrangement. Both of them
were proud and neither would make the
first advance toward reconciliation. She
who f1irts desperately TO forget finds that
she has pursued the wrong course to
win.
The right kind of a marriageable man
does not want the girl for a sweetheart
who has no difficulty in being ''on with
a new love before she is of with the
old Thus she is left mateless at last,
alone and heart-hungry. What a pity
it is that women will waste their lives
in grieving over that which was really
a blessing in disguise to them.
II women could look in upon the homes
Of the men whom they couldn't get they
would rejoice exceedingly that they
missed the object upon whom they once
set their heart. The woman whom the
ne-er-do-wen does marry no doubt wishes
from the depths of her heart that his
first sweetheart had married instead of
it being her unhappy fate. She often
wonders, as she sits watching for him
10 come home in the wee sma' hours.
what the other woman would have done
were she in her place. under just such
disheartening circumstances; what she
would have said to him had he come
home 10 her at any old time expecting
his dinner to be hot and the table to
be loaded with food though he con-
trfbuted little or nothing to its pur-
she had welded him. have taken in
sewing to make both ends meet, that the
butcher, the baker, and the candlestick
maker might be paid. aye and the land
lord too-that they wouldn't have to
move every month? Would she have
stood for his sneers and abuses If she
refused him money for cigars when she
could scarcely exc out sufficient money
to buy baby needed fiannels? She thinks
how Kind fate was to the other girl
when she missed him Everyone should
consider that whatever happens must be
for the best.
Wise Girls Toss Sorrow from Them.
When a girl loses a beau she should
-endeavor not to take it to heart, remem-
bering that with the maiden who deter
mines to look on the bright side the loss
of oDe undesirable lover generally results
in the gaining of two better ones and the
choice of half a dozen. without an EFFORT
on her part to bring beauX to her feet.