Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-30

| these blessings are you willing to
have Mr.. Smiths features "thr own
in with the lot?"
This. however, does not mean that
you are in love with love, but with
prosperity. And alas! people some
times are even more in love with
prosperity than they are with love.
The affirmative tests for being in
love consists in reversing the situa-
tion Do you think Mr.. Smiths
chuckling laugh the sweetest music
you ever heard? Do you know his
footsteps apart from a hundred
other footsteps? Do you remember
the shape of his hands and do they
seem to you the most manly, capa-
BILE hands in the world? And do you
in the beautifully simple language
of Robert Louis Stevenson feel as
Kirstie. the elder, felt when she
heard young Hermiston's step about
the house?
81 have said her heart leaped-it
Is the accepted phrase. But rather.
when she was alone in any .nambcr
of the house and heard his foot
passing on the corridors something
in her bosom rose slowly Intil her
breath was suspended and as slowly
fell again with a deep sigh when
the steps had passed and she was
disappointed of her hearts desire.
This perpetual hunger and thirst of
his presence kept her all day on the
alert"
If you feel like this, you are in
love. Or, again, you may apply a
test to a lower round of the ladder
of romance. Do you think how love
ly it will be when Mr.. Smith pays
fifteen dollars a pair for your pale
gray boots. or have you decided to
buy a serviceable black pair for
much less money and save the differ
ence for a nestegg?
Straws Show the Way
These are all so many favorable
straws that point to your genuine
affection for Mr.. Smith, as against
being actually in love with love ard
prospeity.
And young man may submit his
lovers litany to practically the
same experiment. Is it Miss Rob
inson's actual presence he sees
about the house, or does he merely
have vision of slippered ease in
which some capable. economical.
agreeable young woman ministers
to him and keeps a votive lamp
burning before the shrine of his
comfort?
Or perhaps he is not as selfish as
all that. maybe he is honestly in
love with love; he reads poems like
Poe's Raven" or Browning's Last
Ride" and he gets a degree OF mel
ancholy comfort out of them, or
again his young enthusiasm may
kindle to a magnificent declaration
of love like Bayard Taylors Bed
ouin Love Song"
Till the sun grows cold
And the stars are old,
And the leaves of the Judgment
Book unfold"
After that. what is there for a
susceptible young man, with a nice
taste in literature to do but to look
about for some girlikin feminine
for manikin-to wrap about with
these splendid sentiments of ro-
nance? Alack and alas! when the
awakening comes the girlikin is
just a nice little thing and not the
sort at all to inspire a grand pas
sion.
Love is a thing of superlatives.
If you are in love you long exces-
sive1y to be something finer, nobler
and more beautiful than you really
are, so that you may be worthy of
your beloved You believe you are
utterly happy in thinking of her
till you discover there is a keener
bliss in persuading her to smile on
you.
Perhaps you may succeed in rec
ognizing some of these symptoms
and classifying them as belonging
to the "in love with love" school, or
those that belong to the "one girl
or one man-on earth" school,