The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-06-01
ANDREW AND
 IMOGENE
By ROE FULKERsoN

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 T am sure they are going to be happy said Imogent. T never saw two people so in love with each other in my life"
 T hope they will" said Andrew. indifferently.
 Don't you know they will?" de- manded his wife. Isn't love all there is worth while in fife? Is not that what makes people happy. though married2 It was love match, pure and simple"
 T hardly know. honey" said An- drew, love is an awfu1ly funny thing It takes some mighty funny twists and makes people act in way that Iany lunacy jury in the country would put them in the nuthouse.
 "To some people love seems to be the only thing in life worth while :. the one thing that can heat them up to that white hot happiness where every selfish thought is fused and cleared away. To the very next per- son 1t seems sort of amusing pas time, like whiting stick or tossing pebbles Into a stream. "A good dose of love will keep one man walking the floor all night writ ing sonnets, and the very next guy who gets it will say Well, that set ties me for life and lie cown and go to sleep like a baby with big dose of soothing syrup.
 ITO some people it is the same old story that Adam told to his wife in the Garden of Eden, and other fel- lows make 1t as new as the last step in fox trot.
 Ut makes one man as gentle as a little dove and makes him come every morning with q fresh bunch of dew sprinkled violets, and the very next fellow you hear about has beat out a woman's brains with slat out of the bed because he loved her so.
 'It makes some fellows commit sui- eide because they cannot get wom an, and 1t makes the very next man jump in and work 15 hours day and get rich just to show the woman who refused him what a good thing she missed.
 "One man will love a woman so well that he will kill the man who comes between them, and another man will love a woman so much that he will divorce her and let her marry another man, because he wants her to be happy.
 Tt is not unusual to see a man love woman so well that he will rob his best friend of her, although I have never heard of one who wanted to also deprive that friend of four or five children.
 Love makes a man who is success ful in business and who has a good education write notes to a woman which a 10-year- old boy would be ashamed to send to his sweetheart, and again it makes d simp write let ters which read like the work of pcet.
 Love will make one woman tie a man up so tight that he cannot turn without feeling the tug of her apron strings, and it will make another woman give her husband the liberty of tramp dog because it makes him happier.
 Love is life's most luscious drink The fates mix it for us when their backs are turned, and we never know what the mixture contains until after we have swallowed it. We can only shut our eyes, take our medicine and wait for it to begin to work Yes" sighed Imogene. Love re- quires sacrifices from us all"
 Why, what sacrifices have you ever made for love?" demanded An drew.
 T listened to all that without in- terrupting. didn't F" she asked spir- Iitedly.
 "weli?' demanded he, expectantly. "Well?" she said conciusively Copyright. 1922. by Twenty-frst
 Century Press. Inc.)