The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-07-18
Dorothy Dix Says
HOW TO KEEP LOVE
By Dorothy Dix
The World, Highest Paid Woman Writer.

A CORRESPONDENT asks these
~ questions
why is love the most perisha-
BILE commodity in the world' Why do
husbands and wives so soon fall out
Of love with each other?
When the average couple get mar
ried they are almost idiotically sen,i-
mental, yet in few years--oiten in a
few months they seem to cease to care
for each other. They are bored, in
different, antagonistic, fighting like
Kilkenny cats, instead OF billing and
cooling like turtle doves as they did on
the hinder side OF the altar. Yet, so far
as the outsider can see, there is no
reason for the change in the tempera-
ture OF their affection. Both husband
and wife are just what they we're be-
fore marriage so far as personal charm
goes; both ara good, respectable people,
anxious to do their duty,
What has killed their affection so
soon' And is there any known pre-
servative In which romantic love may
be canned so that it will keep fresh
and sweet after the honeymoon
Certainly, dear correspondent, there
is 4 way to keep love. Put it up in
incense. That is a guaranteed recipe
that never fails.
Would you keep the fires Of afiec-
ton forever aligh, in the breast OF hus-
band or wife, Feed the flames con-
tinually with words OF devotion and
adulation
Would YOU have your own love las,
as long as life ITSELF Ne sure the
voice that murmurs words Of praise
and affection in your cars will thrill
you as long as you have sense to hear,
The trouble with most men and wom-
en-. when they realize that they have
won another's heart and have been
married for love, is that they arc like
a foolish youth who has come into a
fortune. They think that the wealth Of
affection that has been bestowed upon
them is inexhaustible, and they draw
upon it and draw upon it, and waste
it with a prodigal hand until by and
by they suddenly discover that ii is all
used up and gone, and there is no more
love left.
II has not occurred TO them in the
days OF plenty TO hoard their treasure
much less to add TO it, Yet it Is no
more necessary TO lay up some money
for the proverbial rainy day OF ones
finances than il Is to lay up love against
the rainy OF ones physical and mental
needs-the days when ones youth has
waned, and ones charm i, lost and
one grows dull and tedious in conversa-
ton.
Never was there a more mischievou,
idea than that we all start out in mat
rimony with a fixed capital OF love that
cannot be subtracted from or increased
In nothing can YOU so easily go broke
as IN affection, and no stock can he
more readily inflated than Heart Pre-
ferred In reality " rests with each
OF US whether we bull or bear our own
particular love market, and whether we
become millicnaires or bankrupS in
affection.
Cupid does busine" largely on cred.
It, and It Is no trick a, all inr him TO
borrow enough romantic capital to
start young couple on, in an en-
gasement. II is only after marriage
that the question Of how to make M
the deficit resulting from the wear and
tear Of every y-day-life and keep the car.
ital stock at par becomes a vital ma,
ter.
The only way il can he done I, bv
adding continually to the visible supply
OF love in the firm, and the marvel /,
that so few people do this.
No one expects bridal ,rousseau 10
supply one with clothes for lifc time.
q wedding breakfast to suffice ior
food Tor thirty or forty Years. but the
great mass OF maknd never seem 70
dream that the VOWS of devotion ,hey
4ao1 during the days Of eouytship arc