The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-04-13
As She Reaches
 The Point Of Manage
Bs Winnifred Harper Cooley


 affair for miner' exclaius many a modern woman. Emotion is too deyas- tat1ng- Wemen always let the grande passasn wreck them. Men are more easslnL They love and work and eat and play, and it's all in lifetime for them When girls can take heart af- fzlrs casually, they will De free in 6eed7
 We wonder if feminine heart flut- ters ever will be just casual. At the Rsyeho.os1cal moment, when the knaneipated Female is eoolly enun- eating her Independence of Cupid, ke casts his dead1iest dart-and she fails into the bottomless pit of matri- monial oblivion
 ds1t see how any girl ever gets @ the point of actually taking the Fafal Leap remarks Marion. T am 70 A few have proposed. They were ns2hfe chaps. but why marry them :? kr1ends, flirtations, q bit of satisfied van1fys well and good-but where do you get this passion stuff9 Die for lcEet See your career crumble, your bong years of labor wasted, your life turned tepsy turvy? Absurd For, don't you know, no man is worth it .''
 A fortnight after this Illuminating ennyerSatlcn she visits a school chum tn neixhboring city, and meets Reg fnaa- Immediately it is all over but seleefing the bridesmaids. Or so it Eeenss to outsiders- As a matter of x1ef- there was soul-splitting trag- eaF, a trenlendoHS problem to solve For brief time life trembled in the ealanee. eternity stood still You see, ke w1s engagsd to some enc elsei There was the heartrending ques- tom Is it ethical to break an engage nnenf1 Should q man suffer through cut a hfefimes should twin souls make the supreme sacrifice and 20 to @eath and desolatiOs, in order not to distress the innocent creature he is engaged t03
 Fortunately. common sense pre- v1hlss the former eagagement is eToken- The fianeee takes it quite easily. ruminating that she was be- ginning to be bored with Reginald anyway.
 GIcrSous youth. when it seems the 4 stars should saaeken in their courses \ thruUgh the Tast,- if oIie human = atom he cruelty deprived of his Soul za1tes Oh. stupid common sense, that ereeRS like paralysis in sober mid1le A--z7-A- CT woman IS pretty much like any othsr nnan or woman. given the same general 4 emvirunments
 MInd-erash1ng iealiusy, devouring # naSsezs18SAlpI deTastatfng sadness at hrief separatioas. Eestatie reunions 4 er reconeilati0ns after aparrelS. Only a duh clod devoid of imagination has ' failed t0 experience. at some time. f3r some one, the divine and devilish passion
 Of course to reason with her. wh.n H the mania has sher, that really Bert ram 1z not as good looking as Harry Szm1kh- who adores hers nor is he 50 cAaxllng of manner, or fine of char 1e<er a& James Jones or John Ansler- En1- He IS her heaa ideal, her lord. ner destiny. for whom she was Exe1tEd hg a discriminating providence, nnd
 Poor Reazan's chance
 Against . glance
 Is Just as slim as ever..
 ,~ft tozan's love is a terrible thing. It A@7 some of the panther quality of he MoGAer figAtlng for her cub. It has 1e@L at the maternal, brooding over kE y0zng- Ik tears and rerds in eAA11zF- 1t has the murlerous aual- ay sf tka gypsE. lingering her long Ez1feI It has the Self-saerificing ele- ne1Es whleh Fegards the world well aat- S0metImes it partakes of the Srsne fawaing of the wiling slave. 1r11ys 1t n more deadly than the com Aacent. easy affection of the mating zalA
 Stuff and nonsenseFs cries the nazisRn Feminist ~Wonan's love no A..r . Ezm'2 love 1z of mana life a thing part Byrun iz out of date: he should 1Ss knawn some up to. date business
 Perhaps work and economic inde- en4e1ee help to flfl feminine exist nee today. Possibly the IittIe loves re enszal and fleetiux. as are, noenss sUt when hlg soul experiences the E1nde Pasas0R-wen we find that fem n11e nature has not changed very sncA Tn the past % centuries.
 And So we mAKry and we descend lto the Falley of the Shadow of Death create new human beings and mass the T0reA 0f Life. And we exueri- pee the sQuEterxifying and heart-sat- ry12g by 0f Motherh0od No mere an ever cam know what that means.
 kfe41eltty the greatest loves never 1eA the consnpznatian of a peaceful arrIage- CynieS say that matrimony
 the death of a grande passion. lessed lS she who finds a lover who
 0aVes into q eoagenial husband.
 any 0f uz have secret gardens of eloEY tnta which we drift in un- sardea Hsomeat& Happy is the wife Ao dweIls always in her present gar-
 n and w1Iks serene beside a life.