Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-02-01
BROKEN HEARTS WILL HEAL
ONLY COWARD LOSES HOPE
OVER UNHAPPY LOVE AFFAIR
Dentrice Fairfax Says Sunshine, Fresh
Air, Clean Living md Same Think
ing Is best RemeJy.
BY BEATRICI; rAIRE.x

al can't live without him! what's
tho use Of going on now that the one
thing l asked of life Is taken from
meg" writes Mary.
How am l going TO bear this loss?
Why did have to love her IL was
doomed to lose herr walls John.
DO dare say to either OF my an
guished young correspondents:
My dear. this love, which seems to
make your whole life 4 waste, may yet
be the means OF turning 1t into a gar
den. This sorrow which seems to you
TO be running your youth may be the
most constructive experience you've
ever had"
dare not say 1t. But let's see IL
1t can be so arranged that Mary and
John viii contemplate the pO. oiiity
Oh saying 1t some day.
Out OF an unaelhsh love comes un-
Outstanding and sympathy and self
i FOR tendsrness, We agree TO to
man you love turns from you and inds
happiness elsewhere. isn't 1t poss. 10
TO- &c. a glimpse Of Joy out or unset
der. isn't 1t? But a magnificent soul
Now, let's 500 what we. who arc
Surely It's possible to concord that
once we have blundered. made a
botch" OF what should have been, a
beautiful love. we've LEANED something
about what not TO do. something OF
what chiils and dismlsses love. Out
OF that experience We bring an equip
ment to make us wiser. and sweeter
and worthier when next love visits US.
Love VII come again to every ach-
is great 20 grant as mighty to make,
and creates the love to reward tho
Suppose instead ~ d,,coyertnr 40,
forences and difficulties which break
OH q love affair we go on into the
marriage partnership. where the fall
ings which drove uH apart would mag
My into terrible proportions in tho
,tosehess OF everyday contact Then
, ,he would 5e hatred. bitterness and
dom. or the degradation OF living in
marriage With none Of the vital IL
on sery OF ,h. ons
BUSINESS OF the court process. -.
Children. perho Fps. TO share disgrace
stretches over years instead Of the the
weeks or months an unhappy love az
They alwaye will snnshinc and fresh
air and clean living and sane thinking
help. But Nature takes care OF her
processes even when We don't give her
y sad experience in the court OF
love leave" two things: tho little scar
the big experience in life and with hu.
man nature that can be turned TO use
scar and chance q. wisdom.
No hcart-breaking" love affair !,
really devastation. For the love which
has surged through a heart has car.
ricd OF much OF dross and has brought
in big feelings and universal expert.
cnce.
Perhaps big love will come som,
tine to n take ne place Of what wa. wa:
power TO interpret life through wori
VIII grow out OF the capacity for deer
feeling love cngenders whether or nc
II is complete: and fulfilled. And
may grow such understanding of IN,
human heart az will surround us witt
love from the many who arc ready tc
respond 10 sweetness and fineness ant
In the capacity to love is the Ike.
mount suffering is the key to al
eo Aa anhapDy ,ns love Ha.. snashes tn
weakiins to Mute 9 r that "a" noti mDss
worth while and sink down In tn
inire TO prove It But st does far DIFF
icrent things TO fine, big souls The
Ssand ne ne Zee, test and struggle TO b,
fered. Here's the formula which ough
TO save Mary or John:
I'm unhappy, but maybe that's al
deserved
Perhaps ,,, love didn', fail me; I ma,
Il won't mako that blunder again
Instead. I'll make myself deserving o,
big love and then I'm bound TO at.
tract It. And I'll hold II. That mucl
ingly bad experience-the knowiedr,
and power to hold love when next
capture IT,"