El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1918-04-13

TIE eternal dawn has come again.
1 Spring with her thousand sorceries
and her overlooking measure OF I'M
rest as D'Annunzio puts it.
There is human unrest IN the rush
ard roar OF the rivers. clogged with
ice foes. grinding and tearing at the
shore It is a blind force. earth-old
and deathless, yet how many Of the
men and women who watch the spec
tacle realize this
They are too tired. perhaps. too
worn out with the struggle TO take
the lesson to heart II takes so much
imagination 70 make the ever shrink
ing dollar spread over a larger and a
larger area OF the high cost Of living.
that the blind rush OF the waters in
answer 20 the great awakening OF
spring means nothing more 70 them
than that ice is thawing and il will
soon be time to buy straw hats.
Singly, We manage 20 afford straw
hats, green vegetables, linen suits
and an occasional treat at q theater
or movie" but we can't afford these
III we marry. Marriage. in the less
prosperous walks Of life. IS beginning
to be like the sugar, wheat flour and
beef that must 90 across the sea 20
our allies-it is getting 10 be taboo.
The Ban on Marriage.
Love comes under the ban or that
blghting phrase "the increased cost
Of living" a man cannot afford 20
r-ake love 70 the girl of his choice
unless she is rich-because he -anuot
afford to ask her TO marry him The
income that very comfortably started
his father and mother in life barely
sutfices FOR him alone. A normal
home life os out OF the question for
him, and he begins TO adjust himself
TO bachelorhood.
The girl begins TO see all the beau
tiful and real things in life slipping
away from her. too. She lives IN a
dreary boarding house OF she shares a
small apartment with another girl.
and they have too many meals OF the
tea-and -marmalade school 70 be really /
good for them.
such glimpses OF home life as she
gets come from some other woman's
home, where she goes 20 dinner or
OF babyhood as refresh her weary
spirit Gomez from other peoples ba- I
bies as they are trundled by her in
their carriages
Then she goes in for some dismal
system OF adjustment. the same as the T
man. she takes up some occult form /
of thought. that brings a shred Of /
comfort, in the bleak assurance that I
nothing is real-love. home. babies I
and all the blessed responsibility that I
things are real: there is a phrase that (
covers the whole scheme or creation. /
and the phrase is sin the seeming +
Nothing real eNists-it is all ''in the
seeming. And she withers away into
q melancholy old age.
Now. this is all bad from the
standpoint OF national economies.
the country needs that girl and her
Intelligence and her God-given facul- /
ty for making home-it leaves /
these vital things too much 70 chance.
Last week I was I'm Washington
and ] could not help wondering over
the tate Of the thousands and thous-
ands OF young men and women daily
pouring in there TO take Up war work.
work on the firing line and in the I
field hospital
viii the ageless miracle OF love
come to them? Win they marry "and
oe happy ever after" as in the com
forting words Of the fairy tale? or
viii they become withered and desi-
Gated Flooding back and forth to an
toil2
Washington at The present tina -