The daily progressive-miner., 1916-01-08
WHY WE CAN NEVER FORGET
 OUR FIRST LOVE
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 Few of us marry our first love We were either too young ant money too scarce or else we wer, tilted. In some way we are mad, to realize that 4there'suany a slil 'twixt the cup and the lip.'
 As time goes on conditions il life change. We meet others anc seek their coupanionship. We lool back and camly smile upon our frs love and term it puppy love. But after all, We are inclined to cling tC this first love.
 We never forget the first piece of candy We tasted as a child, oul first long dress or pair of trousers our first valentine. our first love letter or the first kiss! There Is no sensation like novelty; the new ness and freshness of a thing is what thrills Us and keeps us from being bored That first flame help ed to kindle all the others; it was the first to set us all aglow-on firei That first love was real; it was the original spark; the others merely followed as 8 natural course Of events.
 The first love was pure, spring ing directly from the heart. It didn't have to be coaxed Or petted. No one started it for us. It sprang up almost unknown to us, 1t star tied us-it was something new!
 We met a girl or boy, looked into their eyes, hear them talk, discovered something in them that Interested us. and then, suddenly, without any force, just sef-impos- ing, like a flash of tightening VIC realized that We were in lovei We had read Of love in novels and short stories, but before it had been fiction; now it was real--it had come to usl
 The original seed Of love stays with us through life. It is true we seldora marry that first love, and we don't even take time to regret the Iact, because other lives have been entwined with ours; but the seed is there and we reverence ii and love it. We may smile al some of the foolish little things We did and said as girl and boy lovers but back Of it all We respect and honor that first old love.
 We realize how it took hold oi us and gave us more interest 1T life; how it made us wake up and want to do something in life.
 Many 9 young man was not do ing well in business. He felt 1t z hardship because he had to be shut up in a tight little box of an office every day. But when he met that slip of girl, that first love of his something new stirred within hin and he began to work with new zeal, new ardor. Love trans formed him. It made him wan money, position, home-and her
 Perhaps by the time he got wha she made him want she was gone but there were others, and tha first love was what had made i; man out of him. It was that whicf made him noble and fine, and i was what put him on his feet ans gave him grit enough to go afte the best things in life That frs love was his foundation and tn corner stone was love.
 In similar way many a girl ha hated housework, hated to help he mother or to teach school, bu when love comes to her some nes spirit within her, heretofore asleep awoke and thrilled her into beini 2 new girl, a new woman, witl new hopes and better ideals.
 Love Is what keeps the worl going around It puts us on ou feet and makes men and women c us. It makes Us want to be fine, [ be our best for him and for hei It usually takes more than on love. the first love, to make mar riage; but although our first lov seldom furnishes the central pIo of the life drama it introduces th leading lady Or leading man and lis therefore vitally essential.