The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1915-06-10
DO WOMEN KNOW WHEN THEY'RE
REALLY IN LOVE7

Say not woman's heart is bought
With vain and empty treasure
Say not woman's heart is caught
BY every idle pleasure.
When first her gentle bosom knows
Loves flame, 1t wanders never;
Deep in her heart the passion glows.
She loves-and loves forever.
It is a question not everyone can
solve whether love and marriage pos
sibilities enter into the heart of every
young woman's life or not. There are
romantic girls who frame their pic
lures of their ideals while endeavor-
ing to make hero from anything mas
culine that crosses their path. They
are constantly rearing idols which
after a while fall from their pedestals
one by one.
If this work-a-day world was unro-
mantle, thousands of the unwedded
would face empty lives. The style OF
men appealing to young women and
girls change as circumstances bring
about those who seem to fill vacant
place when the heart Is full of long.
ings, chilled by the memories of those
who are gone, or of suitors whose ex'
istence has been dropped as unfavor.
able. There are plenty of young WON.
en- and girls who are not happy unless
they have a number of admirers about
to pay court to them. They expect
proposals from one or more Of them.
Long before these hopes are real
lied, they commence to tell their
bosom friends how deeply and truly
they are in love with a particular hero
who has gilded their imagination as
none other has. Day dreams are rosy
even If they are wasteful, sometimes
bringing regret. Many of the bright
years of girlhood are spent in the
vague looking after this wooer which
her romantic fancy has settled, as be-
longing to her-somewhere. Nothing
can shake her hopes nor her faith
that she will recognize this masculine
being the first time they meet by some
subtle instinct within her heart. She
does not know exactly how, but it will
be somehow. The real one will come
along.
Half of lifes mischiefs and perils
have resulted from the overindulgence
of just such vagaries which thought
less girls are wont to give themselves
up to. She is mostly the one who goes
from girlhood to womanhood unwed-
ded, until she wakes up and suffers less
anxiety for the time to come when the
right one will put in an appearance.
More than one of the fair sex has lost
in the winning of good husband by
being too romantic, too positive that
they were really in love before the
wooing had capped the climax. Many
have proven that one too many bursts
of sentiment have become disenchant-
ing; expectations have vanished and
the one-time admirers existence has
passed away.
But, after all is said and done, there
are good, honest men who prove ideal
lovers, though at first they may have
been passed by as not most desirable
to pin the hopes Of the future on.
Such an one may not wear fine clothes,
his hands may be tanned by wind and
heavy lifting. His eyes may be blue,
bright and restless, instead of the
dark, dreamy ones you have loved to
imagine. At five-and-twenty she may
become conscious that he has some lit
tie imperfections she turns from. But
at thirty she will overlook these slight
blemishes. At thirty-five she will
waive many of her dislikes and count
only his virtues and appealing ways.
All her imaginary crosses that barred
loves way she knows were trifies. She
smiles as she tells her bosom friends
that at last she finds loves reality OPP
posite from all that she had expected.