Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-07-30
HOW TO KEEP LOVE
BY DOROTHY DIX
The Worlds Highest Paid Woman
Writer

4 eorrespondent asks these Ques-
IA "Why is love the most perish
able commodity in the world? Why 40
husbands and wives so soon iall out
OF love with each other?
when the average couple get mar
ried they are almost idiotically senu'
mental, yet in a few years-often In
a few Tnonths-they seem to cease to
care for each other. They are bored,
indifferent, antagonistic, fighting like
Kilkenny cats instead OF billing ana
cooling like turtle doves as they ola
on the hinder side OF the altar. YET
80 far as the outsider can see, there
IS no reason for the change In tenn
perature- of their affection. Both hus-
band and wife are just what they
were before marriage so far as per-
sonal charm goes; both are good, re-
epectable people anxious to do their
duty.
what has killed their affection so
soon? And is there any known pre-
epryatiye in which romantic love may
be canned so that II will Keep tresh
and sweet after the honeymoon!
Certainly, dear correspondent, there
is a way to keep love. Put 1t up IN
incense. That is guaranteed recipe
that never fails.
would you keep the fires of al
lection forever alight in the breast
Of husband or wife? Feed the flames
continually with words Of devote ana
adnlation.
would you have your own love last
as long as life itself? Be sure the
voice that murmurs words OF praise
and affection in your ears will thrill
you as long as you have sense 70
hear.
Like Foolish Youth
The trouble with most men ana
women, when, they realize that they
have won anpther's heart and nave
been married for love, is that tney
are like foolish youth who has come
into q fortune. They think that the
wealth OF affection that has been be-
slowed upon them is fnexhausttole'
and they draw upon it and draw upon
II. and waste 1t with prodigal hand
until by. and by they suddenly dis
cover that tits all used up and gone,
and there Is no more love left. se
II has not occurred TO them in the
days Of plenty to hoard their treas.
nrn. much less to add to IT. Yet II
Is no more necessary TO lazy up some
money for the proverbial rainy day
81 ones finances than ii is to lay up
love against the rainy day OF ones
nhvsical and mental needs-the days
when ones youth has waned, ana
one's charm is lost, and one grows
dull and tedious in conversation.
Never was there q more mischieV-
ons idea than that we all start out
~ nnatrimony with a fixed capital or
love that can not be sEbtracted from
of increased. In nothing can you so
tneilv 20 broke as IN affection, and
no stock can be more readily inflated
than Heart Preferred. In reality II
rests with each of us whether we
bun or hear our own particular love
market. and whether we become mil
Iionares or bankrupts In affection.
Cupid Works on Credit
Cupid does business largerly on
credit, and 1t is no trick at all for
him to borrow enough romantic CAP
ftal to start young couple out in an
eneaeement. It Is only after marriage
that the question of how to make
up the deficit resulting from the wear
and tear OF every day life and keep
the capital stock at par. becomes a
vital matter,
The only way it can be done is by
adding continually to the visable sup
nIg Of love in the firm, and the mar.
vi IS that so few people do this.
10 one expects bridal trousseau
Is supply one with clothes for a life
dine. or wedding breakfast to SUI
ice for food for thirty or forty years,
but the great mass OF mankind never
seem to dream that the vows of deyo-
fion they made during the days Of
courtsEsp are not enough to last to