The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-09-19

give credit TO the statement. that her
Edwin's employer and fellow clerks re-
gard him A. a mere ordinary youth
who is considerable OF 4 bore. and who
will never rise above being a floor
walker in 4 dry goods store. and that
among themselves they laugh at him fo'
being tin horn" sport.
Now Edwin has not consciously tried
to deceive Angelina or to make hel
think that he is something that he |,
not. He has not purposely posed be.
fore her as a hero OF romance and as.
surAed qualities that he did not posses.
in order to win her young affections
Neither is Angelina a deep, design
ing adventures who has affected
charms that do not belong to her b,
right, TO win Edwin's heart.
The deception is from within moi
from without The man and woman
Tool themselves, not each other,
1t is said that Cuvier, the great nat.
Walist, could construct Z whole anima
and tell you Of its life and habits from
single piece Of bone. but his skill
was as nothing compared to that Of q
lover.
Edwin sees that Angelina has q pink
and white complexion and q COLDER
! curl on her forehead and from them
he builds up an ideal domestic charac.
ter possessing whatever ieminiae graces
and charms he most adrnires.
Angelina observes that Edwin ha,
broad shoulder ID a dropping mus
tache and from these she knows tha,
he will make q sober. faithful. industri-
Gus husband and father.
The value of this kind Of scientific
reasoning in love is that just so long
as you believe II to be true it Is Just
n good as the truth. Just 40 long a.
Edwin thinks Angelina the most beau
tiful woman in the world, she is, so
far as he is concerned, a Venus. no
matter il she has carroty hair and q
'nub nose and a featherbed figure.
So long as Angelina hangs with awe
on every word that Edwin utters and
so long as she sees in him 1 romantic
figure, an oracle and a hero. she can
go on worshipping him as the one per-
feet man and congr atulating herself
upon her luck in getting HIM
There are in life certain fine pleas
ures that we can only epjV through
our imaginations and by becoming
party to a sort of deception. Strip the
illusions from these and the beauty aHi
the delight Of them is gone, Analyie
II and the finest picture becomes q dauh
of paint; the best play Is nothing bu,
men and women mouthing among can
vas trees and houses; the gold Of 4 lily
becomes mere insect breeding pollen.
Love is like this. Tear from il tn,
halo Of romance take self deception
away from it, and the thing that is lef
is so poor, so mean and tawdry. sc
marred by faults and blemishes that W,
wonder that it could have attracted our
fancy
This is why married people should
never le, themselves discuss the faults
and idio,ynorasies Of their husband,
and wives with anyone, or even perml,
themselves to indulge in the fascinating
amusement OF vivisecting the character
and appearance Of the partners Of their
b6soms.
The minute Mr.. Smith begins to
question in his own mind whether his
Maria, nose is really straight or a
hule lbp-sidcd, and to wonder il her
srtleN conversation is the naivete oil
extreme youth or merely the lack oil
brains, that minute Mr.. Smith begins
to come out from under the trance oi
love into which he has put himself. and
his salvation lies in his making another
pass or two before his eyes and sinking
back again into a state Of romantic
dreams.
And II this is true OF men II Is dou-
bly, true OF women. A woman's happi.
ness depends upon her reeiting over and
over the litany OF her husbands periec.
tions, as Hindu, do the name Of god,
until she becomes self hypnotiied by
the process. Let a woman once begin
eanvassing her husbands weaknesses
with her dearest friend and Cupid beats
IL He can't stand the revelations.
lnasmuch as love depends upon illu-
sion and delusion and the ability OF a
man to think some perfectly ordinary
woman an angel. or of woman to
esteem some commonplace man a Sir
Gallahed. II follows that i, is nothing
short OF q crime to wake lovers up and
open their eyes to what, their beloveds
really are. This Is form OF cruelty
which is the iavori,c indoor sport OF
most families, and when one hears
mothers cri,iciring their daughters. in
law TO their sons, and their sons in law
TO their daughters. one wonders that
they never realize tina. they are running
their children's happine. by breaking
the spell that binds them and making
them see those to whom they are tied
for life stripped'o all the pink chiffon
OF romance which had made them
beautiful and desirable.
And still more curious is Il that mar
ried people do not walk softly In the
domestic life for fear Of waking up
their husbands and wives. For well
they know tha, all material happiness
depends upon a man or woman being
mesmerired. None OF us have enough
admirable qualities to inspire a death.
le. devotion on our account. !, Is
only our husbands or wives ability to
hypnotiie them,elve, that enables us
to get away with H.
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