Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-02-22
Reasons Why Nearly All
Women Long for LoUe

One OF the most important questions
frequently asked by women is whether
love IL an absolute necessity on their
part. Most certainly it is, for the world
is a cold. cherries place for the un-
happy woman who has never known what
true love really is. 1t is only after true love
comes to the fore that a female really
lives; before it's appearance she merely
exists after loves tender beams strike
her life path she is transformed, and
not she alone; everything to her takes
on a more beautiful appearanoe-the most
sordid things of life become brighter.
Therefore, love ought to play a most
important part in the lives of women;
in fact, It should be the chief end of
their existence. They have found occu-
pations that our grandmothers would
have thought masculine. Scientific
studies, the professions Of medicine. lee
turing on special subjects. gardening and
clerical work, teaching. trained nursing
all these have had a hand in RELOCATING
love to a back seat.
In these days large number Of
women aim rather at distinction: ambi-
ton spurs them on; they are not con-
tent TO settle down and lead a peaceful,
II uneventful, married life. They clamor
for excitement; they want amusement;
they refuse to be tied down TO a round
of domestic duties-in a word. many have
revolted against the old and homely, and.
be It said, correct rule which ordained
that matrimony. following on love, was
the be all and end all OF life so far as
woman was concerned.
Do women benefit by the change? Sup
pose a woman gains fame, with perhaps
fortune thrown in. Is that enough? WIN
she be thoroughly satisfied? She will
to the outsider who cannot read the
secrets OF her heart. but deep down
there Il a consciousness that something
10 wanting. The natural instinct has
been thwarted and the woman knows II.
Instinct, in truth. clamors for something
withheld. After all. what is fame to a
genuine woman?
Will the praise of a multitude fill a
woman's heart with Joy as much as an
infant lisping its first simple words?
EmphaticallY mol Martin Farquhar Tup-
per says: "A child in a house lie a we'll
spring of pleasure" but many a mother
might add IL Is also a well-spring OF
worry. But would she be without It?
Not for worlds. She Is happier far than
she knows. The young mother with her
children about her is apt to let small
worries cloud over the happiest time OF
her life. But when she looks back at
1t. when the young ones have all grown
up and gone from her, she wonders at
herself for having ignored home joys.
Is there living woman of. say. % TO
30 years of age who has never loved. II
only secretly? II there is she is 10 be
pitied. There are thousands upon thou
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case Is not so bad as that of the woman
who has never known what love means.
II might be argued that the latter does
not know what she has missed, but Il
Is not so.
True. she may not accurately under
stand Just exactly what love means, but
there Is a yearning for something, feel
| ing which she cannot define. There Is a
! blank in her life. She knows she is In
complete in fact. The
sweet characteristics, the finer side of
her nature. the true emotions-all these
are stunted. It requires love to bring
them to maturity. and except they reach
maturity the woman may almost be said
to have lived in vain.
What docs love coniure up to the aver
age girl? She should Just think OF the
loved, and she, in fancy. sees a home OF
her own, a husband who treasures her.
and very likely children who adore her.
And what is the result? Her life is
made brighter by the thoughts; she Is
spurred on; she Is always looking forward
70 a certain happy time-the very thought
OF love. I'm fact, is necessary for her,
so what of the reality?
There are women who scott and sneer
at love outwardly, but little heed is paid
TO them. Any one possessing common
sense knows that they are merely cloak
ing their inward feelings; they try 20
deceive themselves. and that Is the short
and the long OF H.
| II might be asked. following on what
has been written above. is love a neces-
sity for man2 Very many do not think
Il In; at any rate, not so much as Il IL
70 woman The latter is created for
the very purpose OF loving and being
loved more OF less; 10 her love IS life.
The woman who never loves. or never has
love offered her. may be called one OF
life's most decided failures. for n
womans life is 10 he a success love is
/ necessary.
On the other hand. man IL creature
created for work His business and a
hundred and one other things take up
/ his attention and love with him. there
/ fore, Is not a matter OF vital importance.