The evening world., 1920-12-04

existence? OF the poets theory that
h-ing couple are two halves of a
divided personality now happily re-
united?
Why do young boys usually fall In
love first with older women. and
INhat Is the attraction that elderly
toues have for young girls?
why does a wife so often think Of
her husband as "a great child even
while he has exactly the same supe-
rior parental attitude toward her?
why Is girl who was u coquette
before marriage so rarely contentcd
in her married life?"
Science has found the solution TO
these problems OF the heart. Ask the
doctor'-if he is the right sort of
doctor-and he will give you the true
answers to these questions which
have puzzled lovers, their parents and
novelists for generations.
Such a doctor and his theories of
the new science and mental treat
ment, psychoanalysis, are described in
terms anybody can understand by
That clever writer, Harvey O'Higgins,
IN his latest book. The Secret
Springs" The book is published by
Harper & Brothers, and is u popular
explanation of the discoveries of
Freud, whose name has been taken in
vain by so many of us who have
never read through the solid volumes.
In brief. Mr.. O'Higgins and his
Doctor y" explain that many of the
troubles and Inconsistencies of our
love affairs are due to the fact that
we really are in love with mother
images" or father images"-sOme-
times rejuvenated, sometimes unre-
iuvenated. That is, we are attracted,
in our romanCes, by the qualities
which characterized those persons we
first loved-our parents-and who stu
dominate our subconscious selves.
II these qualities are "rejuvenated'
that is, worked over and retrimmcd
in romantic day-dreams-we have a
fair chance of happiness. But dis
illusionment and disappointment usu-
ally await the woman who always eN-
, poets her husband to be a father TO
Nher, instead OF a lover and comradei
5and he man who marries a woman
because she is the nearest thing he
can fnd to his mother Is also likely
to be thwarted in happy marriage re-
lations.
Now how does this theory answer
the questions quoted at the beginning
of the story?
Rich girls marry chauffeurs and
rich men go into he chorus for their
wives, according TO Mr.. Higgins, "be-
cause the children of the rich are so
often left to the sole care of servants
at .he time when the love image is
being formed in tho subcOnsCious
mind. AS a consequence, a chauffeur
or a chorus girl, reproducing some
characteristic Of this dcbased image,
sets the spark to the whole train OF
instructive love"
1t is, literally. "your little dream
fyirlb NJ ig love a
first sight, in this philosophy Of tho
tender emotion. Your dream image,
carried around in your subconsCious
mind, Of a pair of beautiful hands
perhaps like your mothers, or of a
lovely ideal with curly brown hair
and brown eyes may arouse instant
ly all the emotions of love when you
meet its realization in actual life.
This dream image is also respon-
slble for the feeling, known to many
lovers, hat they have loved in some
other life, and for the Platonic theory
that man and woman in love are
the two halves Of one complete being.
The persistence OF the father
image" and the mother image" is
what makes the young often fall in
love for the first lime with persons
several years their senior.
For the same psychological reason
Mr.. O'Higgins points out, "the hus-
band will have moments in which he
will want his wife to be a mother 20
him; he will love her and obey her
childishly hly-'particularly when he Is
Ill. The wife will have similar mo-
ments, in which she will be happy TO
act as if her husband were her father
particularly if she has involved her
self in difficulties with financial
affairs,
obviously, .hcse moments will
conflict, The wife who is most con-
slstently dauEhter-like and dutiful
viii also know that her husband is
nothing but great child because
she has observed him in moods when
he demanded mOtnering, And the
husband viii be cnraged to find him
self treated as if he were child at
times when he wishes to be Obeycd
as if he were a father"
And why is a COQuettC often a dis
contented wife? Because her I'M
age'-thc man of her dreams-beforC
marriage Is more or less OF a ChamC-
Icon in its nature thus causing hcI
coquetly, and this instability of hel
subconsCious nature persists even ar-
ter she has consciously promised to
love, honor and obey one man,
So now you know!