The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-02-11
IS Love DOORWAY
OF SOUL, OR
FRAUD?
23,76l Answers to Newspa-
per's Query Vary From
Hectic to Cynical.
LOFTY REPLY WINS
PRIZE, NONETHELESS
Love Says One, is What
Leads Girl to Give Up
SIS for 500"
What is love"


The New orleans Times Picayune
recently asked that question and Of
fcred prizes for answers In three
weeks %, 16t answers were in and the
mail carriers were about ready to
strike.
From nearly every state in the Unit
ed States and from almost every in
diNidual postoffice in mississippi and
Louisiana came replies. Emotional ac-
tresscs present love on the stage as u
sort of choking sensation, which seems
about to strange them. Some OF the
answers the Times picayunc received
were smothcring in their sentiment
others seemed to have been based on
experience and were more practical.
Women Won the Judges.
Women turned in tAe nt#} 6rn'os
according to the j,u.. tuH ot tj
prize winners nine of them were wom-
en-, and the women took first. second
and third places. This definition won
first place;
Love is the doorway through
which the human soul passes from
scltishncss into service, and from
solitude into kinship with all hu-
manity.
Second place also was given to an
answer which expresses Il similar
wholesome sentiment.
Love is Il chiscl that carves into
soft outlines the granite block OF
stern reality.
The winner Of the first prize signed
! herself AZ unmarried. The second
| went to II married woman, as did the
third:
Love Is what makes red hair
golden" white halt. silver and
no hair ii noble brow"
The fourth is:
Love Is the gentle art of being
very miserable in a perfectly hap
rA fashion.
Verses fer Many.
Some Of those competing felt called
upon to drop into verse to express the
lofty sentiments called forth. as for
| example, this
INV INV ''iifh tiiit W lHSltlS aauO
We're de We're TIN his" Ga sigh
This to Mamie Hooley~-''G awu."
Amt ii swell to hook u guy"
Here arc two bits OF sentiment, pat.
| termed on the same idea, but in their
| completed state varying widely. one
was submitted by woman, the other
by man. Which one the woman
wrote should be seif-evidcnt. One
reads;
Love Is a perfume you cannot
pour On others without getting 4
few drops on yourself.
| And the other.
Love is an insane desire 70
squeeze peach juice out of Il lem
This poem evidently was inspired
| by experience:
| Love begins on u jogging board.
With silvcry moonheans overhead:
But often ends on an ironing board.
And a bunch OF kids to put to bed.
young woman in Ocean Springs.
| Miss. has decided that love is what
| makes man appear blssfully happy
| when woman is mnssinR. up the wisp
OF hair across his bald spot while q
New Orleans woman says:
Love is what leads Il girl to give
ZIP II S1o job to help Il man live On
$50.
Doesn't Know, but
TO offset this cynical view Is a rhyme
which was submitted by miss Ut
Hattiesburg, Miss. 1t is not necessary
| to read between the lines to realize
| that here Is one who is yearning fox
| tho great adventure"
| What love is, | cannot tell;
Some say it's heaven--somc. it's
| hell.
But there's one truth--vou needn't
| doubt it,
| It's purgatory to live witnuu. it.
| The Times Picayune prints the
young woman's name in IL booklet 1t
has issued giving 500 of the answers.
| 1t is safe to say that the postma 81 ter
at Hattiesburg will show an increase in
incoming mail on that route leading
past certain young woman's home.
| Who wouldn't rescue fair maiden
: from purgatoryr