Perth Amboy evening news., 1920-11-22
Love is Forever Singing i'm the
Hearts of Girls and Minds OF Wen

Love Is Forever Singing in the
Hearts of Girls and Minds OF Men
Come with the car at two. Well
let Ann drive. Then we can talk
So Deb had planned before she went
home to make herself dainty for
her simple wedding ceremony.
Turning to my own dressing table.
i discovered the words of Mistress
AIMS original song, You Can't
Live in Love Town All the Time!"
Ann is neither a composer nor a
poet" said myself to myself as /
glanced over her copy, but there's
some sense in her song And it's
an old preachment from her pout-
ing red hpsl She's p%recocious. that
child. Or else-much toe wise!"
Life must have its sober mo-
ments.' ran the first line of the
chorus. The song was designed for
vaudeville and for the comfort of
wives. who often have to endure
coolies of public guying not very
cleverly disguised as joking. AIMS
: little song was addressed to men
who think they have a natural right
to abide in Love Town ALI of the
Time, and finding themselves una
BILE to do so. blame their wives in
stead of themselves.
AIMS verses set me to thinking of
how deeply modern eroticism per-
meates daily life. The love motif is
forever singing in the hearts of girl
and is forever ringing in the minds
of men.
Even normally nice persons are
never permitted to forget 1t. 1t is
fostered by the stage. the movies
n the printed word, and in every
plane where men and women min
gle G0nlallV nr in business
Everybody wants to be romantic
all of the time. Thus over-stimu-
lated men and women refuse to be
patient with ~actualities and realities.
Men like the rouge on naturally
pale faces.
Whenever a man and a girl are
alone together, married or single,
their conversation turns to the erot-
&c and thus the ordinary talk about
wholesome subjects bores both and
becomes impossible.
Even the sober college psycholo-
gists have come to recognize as an
evil the over-stimulated state of the
average Imagination. Romance
which people try to live all of the
time has been condemned by one
of the ~cleverest writers of the day
as "a poison element in human life"
Romance is u~nethical,' writes
Andre Tridon. by covering the
abyss with flowers. by refusing to
place red lights on distractions at
night, it causes infinite waste of
mental and physical material.
Reality, well understood, with
it's infinite possibilities, would be a
beneficial substitute for If
people realized the thrilling posi-
bilities of chemistry or engineering
thew could derive the same mental
stimulation which based
on ignorance, gives them now.
The romance of reality would
iltoxicate them pleasantly and spur
them to actual achievement of So
cial value.
THE Of reality would be
based on truth"
And most of the irregular ro-
II which men and women try
TO live, the of trespassers
who destroy homes which ought to
be happy. and upset business ca
reers, are based on p~retension, de-
ceit and lies. The romantic adven-
turers fool themselves.
This theory is. of course, utterly
abhorrent to the over-stimulated
and the Economically drunk.
AIMS song seemed to me like the
> flicker of a little red lantern OF
warning. Ann was qualified to write
O vivid example. of uncontrolled
eroticism. as Deb was of temperate
and controlled love.
Human beings are young for a
few years and old for decades.
Measured so, Ann would be worn
out by eroticism when hen hour Of
beauty was done, and exhausted like