El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1916-03-04
q Grace Darling Talks To Girls q
The Charming Young Moving Picture Star Gives Heart
Talk
By GRACE DARLING.

~NE OF the questions that girl
discuss when they are having
~ a cup Of tea together and talk
ing their real thoughts is: How can a
girl tell when she is really IN love-
] forever and ever. with man. or
whether she has merely passing fancy
for him?"
We girls don't know any certain.
] sure way to tell near love from real
love. and the pity Of the thing is that
no one in the world seems wise enough
! to devise any infallible test for at
| lection that will enable us to diagnose
our symptoms-to find out whether we
have got an incurable case Of heart
throbs or merely a passing indisposi-
ton that we will recover from in a
week or two without its leaving sin
gle scratch behind.
SO far as 7 have been able to te
from my limited observation, the only
way to tell which is true love and
which is false love is about the same
as the way TO tell mushrooms from
toadstooIs. Try it, and If you survive
IL was the real thing.
And there you are, as Mr.. Henry
James would say.
How to Tell.
But how can a girl tell whether she
is in love or not2 If she goes by the
novels and the plays she has wonder
full thrills. and she grows hot and cold
when she hears his footsteps coming,
and when he is out Of sight the whole
world is a bleak desert and she takes
no interest in her clothes or her looks
or amusements
Perhaps girls did use TO feel that way
when they were in love when they were
poor, sicklyl neurotic Lydia Languish
kind of creatures, who tainted at the
sight OF a mouse. But I don't believe
that any healthy modern girl has any
OF those symptoms Of heart affection.
no matter how much she is in love. She
has to devise some new test OF love.
I think it's a pretty good test that
a girl is in love when she gets TO the
place where she would rather sit up
and listen to some particular man talk
than to do anything else in the world
when she thinks it's more exciting to
hear him tell about what he did when
freckles, and used to carry angle /
worm in his pockets than to go to see
the most exciting play in town.
Another Sign.
As long as a-girl doesn't care par !
ticularly for a man. she wants him |
to 20 something to amuse her-to take |
her about to places-and so when she |
develops the stay-at-home symptom, |
lnluBS are BeLAiUB SeAAuus win leT-
Another sign that a girl Is falling in /
love is when she begins to make a !
man economic. and suggest going to /
the movies instead of the opera, and 4
having sandwiches at home instead Of /
dinner at a restaurant. 1t shows that
she Is beginning to think that perhaps |
she is going to have an interest in his
pocketbook
Still another sign is when a girl be-
gins all of a sudden to grow domestic. |
and take an interest in cooking and |
new recipes and the cost of butchers |
meat When you find yourself just
naturally gravitating toward the kitch-
IN, girls. watch your step. for you're
On the verge of plunging into matri-
nOny.
Finally-and this is the real test OF
owe. 1 think-note whether you are
'eally chums with the man or not, and
ay particular stress on whether he
lOres you when you have unlimited
loses Of his society
A poet said that unless YOU could |
muse all day on an absent face not to |
hink you were in love. But absence is
10 test. Any OF us can imagine our
Ielves in love with an individual Of |
whom we see very little, but it takes
he real bOnafide. blown-in- the glass
rand Of affection to enable us to see
romantic halo about the man who is
lways on the spot.
But, after all. there are no infallible
ests OF lOve-which is one OF the things
hat makes the love game the biggest
-anbla in the world