South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1920-07-25
THEY STILL MAKE LOVE
OLD FASHIONED WAY
And Hearts Beat Now as in
Olden Days, Says Writer.
BY STUART II. CARROLL.

. Miss Geraldine Farrar certainly started something
when she gave a reporter the following statement:
Modern young women, either the stage
or on cannot make love because they have not the
srs 7-bev lact the souls for love nakir z because
they have not been trained 10 soul responsiveness.
Comedy light farce-yes. But the deeper emotion.
they lack. Love making IS more than mere matter
OF encircling the form Of another with ones arms
Among the things mat Geraldine started was an
OF denias by Billie Burke who is quite
hat Ter wrong Miss Burke says:
DEFINES LOVE.
Love a mad succession OF T-ove- you's,'
passionate kisses II IS gentle tolerance kindness
and deep consideration; burial Of the eternal ego
1eoye commands. jealousies heartaches.
Some OF the worlds greatest lovers have been the least
pretentous."
There we have the two sides Of the controversy.
Either love making practiced in the oldeu days is
in for Renaissance or the art still is the same though
outward manifestations OF may have changed
The writer OF these lines feels keenly his utter in
experience in matters pertaining to emotions OF the
anegedy checkered career he might have made the
statement that he knew all there to know about
WAS AWFUL LIAR
He admits in wstful earnestness that he
an awful liar and that time aided to some extent by
events mas shrouded his youthful omniscence so that
he tells the world IN uncertain
doesn't know anything at all about the fairer (and
sometimes warmer)
And beginning unqualified statement
that the writer knows nothing he will write few
hundred words subject of love just TO prove
that he IS telling the truth.
FAVORS BILLIE BURKE.
We-that is. the editorial we-are inclined
Of the eternal Certainly when ma has lost
his heart, he forgets for a period at least himself
His mode OF living. his thoughts actions
whether unconsciousy not-relegate his personal
self far into the background
He thinks and acts he believes his ady-love
would have him think and act. He may not 10 quote
Miss Burke, indulge in a succession of '.I-love-
yous,' though tradition has decreed that he should
know how TO pronounce each Of those onentous
words He may not-again to quote-shower her with
passionate kisses, but to humble notion the elusive
kiss should certainly a major in the curriculum
of love.
MANY KINDS OF KISSES
or course there many kinds of kisses But in
this article II Is believed not wise diheren-
uate the main reason being that the author thereof
might place himself in position from which-dplo-
mat that ne she may be unable to extricate himself
Returning to our subject--maybe you know what II
is We don't-we also agree with Miss Farrar when
she remarks that love making nero encircling
the form or another with ones arms II any reader
does agree with statement we shall cite for
him Cor herr the OF Eddie McGluke a lad who
lost both arms while fighting in the Argonne
And we shall leave it to certain mademoiselIes who
live Montmarte in to testify whether Eddie
lover If he couldn't encircle their slim,
waists with his His reputation became so great
that II the inspiration for the song: IF he can
night like he can love. God help Germany"
LOVE COMPARED.
But perhaps loving a French girl is not the sarne
as love making IN country We believe
however that fundamentally the heart OF a maid on
the Meuse or Marine IS the s. that Of one who
trips laughngly down Michigan st in South Bend Ind
fuse point blank discuss public prints our
opinion OF the girls overseas. When we landed IN
New York ust year ago. the first question hurled
at US was And what did you or the French
women The second question was: But what did
you think OF the French women" And the third and