The Washington herald., 1917-09-19

A udu has just pteu sent W ehs
penitentiary to serve stiff term be-
cause he advertised that he would
teach people how to hypnotize the
objects OF their affections. so thai
they might win whomsoever they de.
sired as mates or brin3 back any rec
reant lover to the fold.
The government held that this wa,
fraudulent advertisement made
with intent to deceive. and calculated
to separate the lovelorn from theil
coin without giving them even a rur
for their money.
Perhaps so. Perhaps no other hu
man being can teach a man or woman
how to weave potent and compelling
spells about the desired one, but a,
a matter OF fact. what is love excepI
hypnotism? Only the curious part o.
it Is that in love we do not hypno'
tize the party of the other part. We
are victims of self-hypnotism.
None OF US falls in love with an
other for what the individual reall,
Is. We are enamoured of what W.
imagine him or her to be.
Every youth and maiden who Is ir
love will deny this. Edwin will tel
YOU that he. has made the mos
minute study Of Angelina's charac'
that she is an angel Is because HI
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to be a paragon Of virtue. mode
OF amiability. a pattern of domes'
ticity and altogether perfect.
Angelina will assure you that It !.
impossible that she could be deceived
In Edwin because she knows from
her own observation that he Is thu
wisest. bravest. strongest. noblest
most generous man in the world.
IL you should tell Edwin. as we who
are Edwin's mothers and sisters ano
female cousins sometimes are rash
enough to do. that Angelina is ar
exceedingly commonplace young wom
an, with a raspy temper and a prefi.
lection for coming down to break.
fast in a slouchy wrapper and cur
papers. and that she Is accustomed
to lie on a lounge and eat chocolate
creams and read novels while heI
mother does the housework. he would
not believe one word of 1t and would
set it down to malicious envy ano
spite.
Nor could Angelina be induced tc
give credit to the statement that he
Edwin's employer and fellow clerk.
regard him as a mere ordinary youth
who Is considerable of a bore, and
who will never rise above being 9
floor walker in a dry goods store, and
that among themselves they laugh a,
him for being a ''tin horn sport.
Now Edwin has not consciousl,
tried to deceive Angelina or to max,
her think that he is something tina,
he Is not. He has not purposely posed
before her as a hero of romance ant
assumed qualities that he did moi
possess in order to win her young at
fections.
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
fool themselves. not each other.
1t is said that Cuvier. the great nat
uralist. could construct whole ami
NAL and tell you its life and habiti
from a single piece OF bone. but hi,
skill was as nothing compared to thai
OF a lover.
Edwin sees that Angelina has q
pink and white complexion and q
golden curl on her forehead ant
from them he builds up an ideal do,
mestic character possessing whatever
feminine graces and charms he mos
admires.
Angelina observes that Edwin ha.
broad shoulders and dropping nous
tache and from these she knows thai
he will make sober. faithful, in
dustrious husband and father.
The value of this kind of scientific
reasoning in love is that Just so Ions
as you believe 1t to be true 1t is JUS
as good as the truth. Just so long a,
Edwin thinks Angelina the mos
beautiful woman in the world. she is
so far as he Is concerned, a Venus
no matter IL she has carroty hair ant
a snub nose and a featherbed figure
So long as Angelina hangs with avs
on every word that Edwin utters and
SO long as she sees In him a romantic
figure, an oracle and a hero. she car
go on worshipping him as the on.
perfect man and congratulating her.
Gelf upon her luck in getting him.
There are in life certain fine pleas
ures that We can only enjoy through
our imaginations and by becoming
party to a sort of deception. strir
the illusions from these and the
beauty and the delight OF them Il
gone. Analyze It and the finest pic.
ture becomes daub Of paint: the
best play Is nothing but men and
women mouthing among canvas trees
and houses; the gold Of a lily becomes
mere insect-breeding pollen.
Love Is like this. Tear from II the
halo of romance: take self-deception
away from 1t. and the thing that IL
left is so poor, so mean and tawdry.
so marred by faults and blemishes
that we wonder that II could have at.
tracted our fancy.
This Is why married people should
never let themselves discuss the