Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-10
SUB ROSA
BY MIMI.
Romantic Disposition.

! Nothing in the world sounds more
attractive in books than the charming
young girl chock-full of romance who
is able to make a beautiful love story
out of her simple Irritation with the
village lad.
One thinks that such a woman
would be an ideal matchmaking beau
| tiful stories out of common-sense,
everyday things-stretching out the
| romance of a marriage to last for
years and years.
| But there are drawbacks to a 70.
mantle disposition, which are not men,
toned in the bright pink stories of
love and happiness.
| The chief drawback is that the ro-
mantle young lady is too easily led
| away by her story-book ideas.
She meets nice boy, plain dumb
| but honest. He is nothing in the world
| to her. He doesn't like to read. She
loves it. He doesn't like anything in
the world which means anything to
| her. She really shouldn't pay a bit of
attention to him.
And then he opens his mouth and
utters words of love. He has sud-
denly and unaccountably fallen for
her
The romantic damsel instantly be-
comes new creature-and in her
eyes the nice, dumb lad takes on all
the qualities she most desires in a
man.
| Why, she even begins to think he's
handsome. Simply because he's made
love to her and that has started all
her story-book tales revolving in her
| head.
She instantly dramatizes the whole
| In nd %nI
before lovely lady who graciously ex-
tends him her hand to kiss.
1t matters nothing to her that the
callow youth before her is nothing
like prince of any nice story.
She doesn't even notice that he
talks slightingly of the things she
loves. She is lost in a wave of ro.
mance-a sweet, dizzy feeling over.
comes her. Delightedly she tells her.
self: I'm in love-"
And as far as she's able to Judge
in her overeXcited state of mind, she
is in love. She does the thing up
brown, too. Writes letters every day.
Sleeps with his picture under her Dill.
low. Thrills whenever the telephone
rings.
All these conventional actions con.
vince her that she's really in love-
| oAiO wa ho ACA oClA Ii6IlL up 10 Il T1ICn
where nothing in the world will make
her happy but the plain but honest
village lad.
/ And there, you see, is where the
! amusing part stops and the tragedy
begins. For even our most romantic
lady can't possibly imagine romance
into life with a totally uncongenial
husband.
Oh. it's a shame how MANY girls
are blinded by their own romantic
| natures into thinking themselves in
love.
Every girl today ought to give her.
self thorough shakedown when she
feels the symptoms of love at first
sight overtaking her.
She should take a great many cold
baths, and read only textbooks on
Greek history if possible, in order to
get her mind away from the lovely
stories of beautiful romances.
It's air very well to be romantic,
but it's terrible to let that romance
blight your whole life by fooling you
into the wrong kind of marriage,
Make sure that you're not just play
ing a part of some marvellous story
you once read, before you tell your
plain, but honest, John that you will
graciously consent to become his wife.
Copyright. 1927
Mimi will be glad to answer any inquiries
directed to this paper. provided stamped
addressed envelope is inclosed