El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-01-24
There Are Many Ways To Fall In Love;
Some Of Them, However, Fail To Work
Since All Waste Is Foolish and Even Tragic Why Not Try To Avoid
Emotional Waste2 Nothing Can Be More Useless and
Devastating Than Unhappy Love

THERE are g great many ways OF
falling IN love. Some Of them
work-thst is lead 70 staying in love.
Some don't And since all waste is
foolish, even tragic, why not try 20
avoid emotional waste2
Nothing can be more useless, more
devastating. than unhappy love The
wear and tear of caring madly for
someone and then finding that 1t
wasn't deeply as weH and that it
hasn't any lasting qualities affects
different folks differently. but it az
fects them all unplsasantly, TO say
tbs least.
Tynlcsm. shame. chagrin- bitter
sess. instability. tnsinoerity. frivolity
"a long list Of weaknesses are likely
TO come along and attack the roiks
who manage their love affairs 50 III
that they get to thinking that love
itself is an III favored and tragic
thing and the worst curse Adam ana
I've left as our inalienable inherit
Can Be Avoided.
4 great deal OF this might be
avoided Knowing that the aIter-
math OF a love affair that works our
wrong. why shouldn't We be practi-
cal enough 20 strive Tor love that IS
right and 50 works ont right-
How can you telz
Remember the old saying. You
can't always sometimes tell Well,
it's Ike that But at least. one can
remove some OF the elements OF
chance and avoid the worst pitfalls
Let's put little Dan Cupid on the Wit
ness stand and see II he won't have to
tell Us which are his poisoned ar
there's love at first sight"
Johnny goes TO a dance and meets
girl in rose pink in the noonl.ight-
She can follow al his most difficult
fox trot steps, and she's a breathless
listener TO HIS tales Of how he won the
hundred yard dash his senior year IN
high school
happiness on a mutual taste for fox
trorunE and interest in tales OF
athletic prowess- But Johnny and
his rose pink lady don't stop 70 con-
slider that until they have been en-
gagged two weeks and lind rainy
evenings dragging on their hands AZ
ter they've told each other a few
times how they love each other
They've nothing vital in common.
But in sharing the biological pull OF
a mutual attraction they didn't stop
20 find that out until it was almost
Another Kind.
There's the love Of long habit
Friendship drifts along until every ]
one thinks its more than friendship
and then 10 oblige the public two
people undertake 20 turn bread and I
butter mice, wholesome bread and I
butter. tool into chocolate coke land 1
chocolate cake Of the soggiest and I
least digeEuble)-
There's passion-souletime that 4
comes along disguised 50 prettily 4
that II looks like the Original some I
thing Just as good
There's propi nuuitT. Il nnEt love I
someone and Il might az well be you"
There's loneliness Every one else +
IS mated and Why shouldn't I be-
There's pride. Tn not going to /
have everyone think I'm too unat- 4
tractive 10 appeal 20 anyone says 4
bitterness
There's the old spirit Of wanting .
what you can't have The combative (
spirit. the spirit that won't take a 4
dare II chases after the unattain-
able. and 81 by chance 70 reverEes the !
verdict and makes that unattsinable-
II stops wanting just as soon as it
can possess.
A MfschieFOus WAY.
That's one Of the most prevalent,
most mischievious. most utterly per
uicious ways OF falling in love with
the absolute certainty Of falling out
again And its very buWan h~irzs
ali tied up with such admirable things
as ambition and pride in achieven7e~f-
But TO want what you Waut-uu1l