Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-11-09
o DIX'S COLUMN
Lasting Love Thrives on Tenderness;
on Daily Appreciation, Spoken and
Shown; on Personal Attractiveness
and a Respect for Personal Liberty

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life life + ! u \ 5sT .aa5 I'D. tR@ 3aa1. y have ay fs ali sl 81 6s ssi@s :. Xix. best to
see, and hear about No play without a low d interest can os succeed % w ms
chiefly go to the theatre and read novels to borrow a thrill from those
Everybody loves a lover. Everybody sympathhes with the fOies tina,
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never be mad good.
But beautiful a is young love, there is a love that is still
1 %se Ths love that bat has sndarsd ID through .i the Years The love
sr1 e1s OF GI iHfee' You u' do 'mS sec sf it very often: Most husbands
thsy %essm middle ,sssd. AND by , t h time d 5ay Lars. ARE elderly SSas their
feeling bs%a gu for each 81 GdS Gt ao o ms g that Rf W fat IL the wG have her row a @
oastoR Reds to a ea a%o o aG 8 g% ass% and comp % n ship TOW "'
break oq ne g a habit miss sat the that 9th he all If 3 ol 1 asa she iot should of re ale; s5 SsssHss n TSn u
still. BIT sss sf ssSs RB3 i Ssp fire meet sn e DID, On f iHs aHsaf su sGnp, ts. yh Pt are or l9 sEF,
other a s they were when they were boy and girl sweethearts.
Old love like this is the rar@t spectacle on earth. and
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ssaa' s Rs9P that has ss' sssn s9 'e e ssas g h ayi t% sa4 %Hst G rea ths
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this inenable consolation # their old age? Or is it a gift sent only to
nose as EsS n '% . these h re old IN iy Sas'a hi. S Question: st S'e and he said:
should a59 %@ keep p t iSa5' 10y! %n Ss ss: sSs % 'sad ss' to- y9 sRs s Sn q! love we
and wife s Should S Se so% 1s i mol S'e Closely e T. together . tn why by the 4 h ssDsFe
battles they have fought 81 shoulder to to 81 sho s%%S's an S' tR Ds fun IN
when this doesn't happen it is because men and women are too
stupid to understand that in your youth, when you are beautiful, and gay
you will be n longer personally attractive and able t. inspire love. just 5
will o longer be able to work and earn it.
My wife and 1 understand this. We realized that love is like a flow
Neglected, choked u with other interests, INTENDED, uncared for il
wlthers away and dies. But cherished and nursed, it sends down deep
sweetenst the world.
$50 We have consciously kept lovers. We have tried not to disrnusion
eac other. We ave kept ourselves a personally attractive a we could.
and re have never felt that matimonyw wa a license to eat onions, and
wear soned clothing. Why, to this day, I don't know whether m wifef
hair is her own o not and she has never seen me stopping around in m v
stocking feet with my suspenders down, and a three days stubble of beard
on m y face.
tie. vEsI i l: Hs: ssr a ls'i e: s%Ss W Ta not ts i9sip N tsGS because sssss H tss7
love you it gives them a right to say things to you that they
would not say to their worst enemies, n to dispense with
all the decences of polite society. We have never made this
mistake. I have never said anything 10 my wife that I would
MOI have said to Ter while L was counting her.. She has never I'
nagged me.
I'VE have never opened each others letters, O REQUIRED each othe
to furnish a abi for every hour W e were apart. DISAGREEMENT r. N.
of course, we have had, but w Q have talked them ot heart-to.
heart instead IF getting angry, and saying insulting things to each other.
I'VE have kept love alive by tenderness. We haven't
taken it fr granted that each would know that the other
still loved, in spite Of appearance, and silence. We have nt
been niggardly with the spoken word. We have shown each
other daily affection and appreciation, and 81 we have kept
the love fires burning.
We are nearly eighty" the old lover added with a twinkle in his eye
and, believe me, if it wasn't for the rheumatism, Juliet and I could baI
ali OF thse young. Romeos of the gallery" DOROTHY DIX.
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