The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-18
Albeit you love in dark or day Peace shall flee from your skull<inx
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 This" I said to myself Y, why Ria had the poem framed and nut in her room She has encountered this characteristic so frequently in men She has recognized it even if some man has not told her, for, althoueh most men recognize this fact which Herb lRichardson has been telling me. they do not often tell it to women.
 As if to clinch my idea Herb be- gan again. That, Virginia, is every mans idea of the well-beloved from the cradle to the grave. As soon as ne IS able to realize love. a boy loves his mother. One of the first things remember was my chagrin when both my father and mother laughed at mo because I sturdily in- sisted that was going to marry my mother when l grew up. Later I changed this to my nurse, and my governess followed as a matter of course. And then found that I was sharing my lollipops and pam tarts with the little girl across the way.
 But l never really grew up until at college. I fell franticalIy in love with a woman much older than n.y. self.
 T wish that women understood bet sei tHdl upon the Kind of older women with whom nearly every boy ialis Tn love the first time depends his character.
 Many an minimizing older woman has destroyed forever a boys faith | in the sex as mine was destroyed. Many a boy finds his adored one Is in- sincere and selfish and he jumps at the conclusion that all womeH are in sincere and selfish, just as I did, l found that the one woman upon whom had poured out all my youth ful worship loved only her self and have since always looked upon women as self-lovers.
 | T caught the fever and caught 1t hard. learned from experience that Emerson was right when he said that Love was the edification of persons and for weeks reveled in that state which Heine describes by saying: Angels call it heavenly joy. Internal torture, the devils say: And men? They call ft-Love.' l looked at Herbert Richardson in surprise. There was something to him after all. dimly realized that I was seeing the man that Ria loved that man that made her wish to be tAAtO eNtAH SPAoAdiQy lO kTOW Tn grace l of spirit that she might bring this man to the surface above the sordid one which Herb Richardson showed to the motley crowd he gathered around l him daily.
 | Then Herb continued.
 T will never forget that first love of mine, for that woman wounded my boyish pride in such a way that I never got over the hurt. She scoffed at my assurances of devotion. al- though she had led me on and on until l poured my very soul at her feet.
 Virginia, there are quite as many boys lives ruined by women as there are girls ruined by men.
 ''The results are different. Girls 20 down in the whirlpool of scandal where. losing self-respect. they lose all. Men, skirting around the edges of the abyss, keep their own self respect but lose all respect for wom- en- Why, Virginia, I have almost been suspicious of my own sisters | because that interruptions woman l had, early in my life, murdered my faith in your sex.
 T don't know why am telling this to you, Virginia. I have never even told it to Ria-un1ess it is because of your very innocence. your lack of knowledge of the motive power of love between the sexes.
 1 T thought it was acting on your part at first, but I have come to know that it is true. I believe, Virginia, that Ria Is better girl than you are because she knows she has re- sisted temptation-not only the temp tation she had for others, but the 1 temptation that others had for her. D
 That, is just what have said of l her, Herb" 1 said eagerly. why l don't you go to her and tell her all that you have told me? Why don't you marry her and make that 'beauti- full home in the foothills a place where love instead of orgy shall ahide?''
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