Omaha daily bee., 1916-03-03
ny GRACE DARLING.

ono Of the questions that girls discuss
when they arc having. cup OF tea to-
gether and talking 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 a pas
sing 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 infalllble test for affection that will
enable us to diagnose our symptoms
to find out whether we have got an in.
durable case OF heart throbs or merely
passing indisposition that we will re-
cover from in week or two without
its leaving single scratch behind.
So far as have been able to tell from
my limited observation. the only way 20
tell which is true love and which is false
love is about the same rs the way TO
toll mushrooms from toadstools Try Il.
and if you survive II was the real thing.
And there you are. as Mr.. Henry James
would say.
But how can a girl tell whether she ia
in love or not? II she goes by the novels
and the plays, she has wonderful thrills.
and she grows hot and cold when she
hears his footsteps coming, and when he
is out of sight the whole world is q
bleak desert and she takes no interest
in her clothes or her looks or amuse-
ments.
Perhaps girls did use to feel that way
when they were in love when they were
poor. sickly. neurotic Lydia Laneuish
kind OF creatures. who tainted at the
sight of mouse. But l 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 Just 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 he was a
| little boy with pale-green freckles. and
used to carry angle worms in his pock-
cts than to go to see the most exciting
play in town.
As long as a girl doesn't care particu-
| larly for a man, she wants lin to do
| something to amuse her-to take her
/ about TO places-and SO when she de-
velops the stay-at-home symptoms,
things are getting serious with her
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 to the opera, and hav-
ing sandwiches at home instead of din
/ ner at a restaurant. II 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 begins
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 kitchen, girls
watch your step. for you're on the verge
OF plunging into matrimony
Finally-and this is the real test OF
love. think--note whether you are really
chums with the man or not, and lay par
| tieular stress on whether he bores you
when you have unlimited doses of his
| society.
j post said that unless you could muse
all day on an absent face not to think
you were In love. But absence is no
test. ANY of US can imagine ourselves in
love with an individual of whom we see
very little. but it taxes the real bona
flde, blown-in-the-glass brand, OF affec-