The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1920-11-24
CONFESSIONS
OF BRIDE
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Wen let Ann drive. Then we can
talk" So Deb had planned before
she went home to make herself
dainty for her simple wedding Ger
emory. Turning to my own dress
ing table. I discovered the words
OF Mistress AIMS original song.
You Can't Live in Love Town
All the Time"
Ann is neither q composer nor
a poet" said myself to myself as
! glanced over her copy, "but there
is some sense In her song. And
it's an old preachment from her
poutIng red lips. She's Preco-
cious, that child. Or else-mueh
too wise"
life must have It's sober mo
ments," ran the frst time OF the
chorus. The song was designed
for vaudeville aud for the comfort
Of wives, who often have TO endure
coolies OF public guylns not very
cleverly disguised as Joking, AIMS
little song was addressed 10 men
who think they have a natura!
right to abide In Love Town All or
the Time, and finding themselves
unable 10 do SO, blame their
wives instead OF themselves.
AIMS verses set me TO think
ing of how deeply modern croft
clsm permeates daily life. The
love motif is forever singing In the
hearts OF girl and is forever ring
49, 4, Tho TnfnAn nF mon
Even normally nice persons are
never permitted to forget u, It is
fostered by the stage, the movies
and the printed word. and in every
plane where men and women min
gle. socially or in business.
Everybody wants to be rOmant-
Ic all Of the time. Thus over
stimulated men and women refuse
TO be patient with actualities and
realities.
Men like the rouge on naturally
paIo faces.
Whenever a man and a girl are
alone together, married or single,
their conversation turns TO the err
otto and thus the ordinary talk
about wholesome subjects hoTes
both and becomes impossible.
Even the sober college psycholo-
gists have come to recognize as an
evil the oyer-stimulated state OF
the average imagination. Ro-
nance which people try to live all
OF the time has been condemned by
one Of tho clever writers OF the
day las a poison element in hu-
man life"
"Romance is unethieal." writes
Andre Tridon. by covering the
abyss with flowers, by refusing to
place red lights on obstruotlons at
night, it causes Infinite waste Of
mental and physical material.
REALTY, we'll understood, with
its infinite possibilities would be q
beneficial substitute for romance.
II people realized the thrilling nos
sihilitfes of chemistry or engineer
ing they could derive the same
mental stimulation which ro-
nance, based on ignorance, gives
them now.
1.-The romance OF reality would
intoxicate them pleasantly and
spur them to actual achievement
Of social value.
"The romance of reality would
be based on truth"
And most of the irregular ro-
mances which men and women try
to live, the romances of trespassers
who destroy homes which ought to
be happy, and upset business ca
reers, are based on pretension. de-
ceIt and lies. The romantic adven-
turers fool themselves.
This theory is of course, utterly
abhorrent to the Over-stimulated
and the dramatically drunk,
AIMS song seemed to me like
the flicker Of g little red lantern
OF warning. Ann was qualified to
write such q song, l told myself.
She was a vivid example OF uncon-
trolled eroticism, as Deb a 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 her hour of
beauty was done, and exhausted
like a dope hend before her youth
was gone.
you Can't Live in Love Town
All the Tme,'I hummed az I pre-
pared to join Deborah.