Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-27
SUB ROSA
BY MIMI.
Love at Hundredth Sight.

For months, actually years, Lola has
| adorcd her chum's big brother The
big brother, of course, despised all the
kids who came to see his sister He
was a man of the world He had inn
portant things to attend to. lie couldn't
really be annoyed with the alteration
Of simple little schoolgirl from no.
where, who played with his sister and
eyed him with fond admiration.
Lola grew up suddenly, went away
to school and came home with a few
hundred new clothes and tricky way
of doing her hair.
The big brother met her che day leav-
ing his home. She Was in orchid color
one OF these slinky-looking Summer
dresses thot make the most robust TOM
boy look feminine and appealing. And
her eyes seemed unusually blue. The
b. B. took a long lock and fell.
Lola is extremely happy. but extreme
~ afraid of her happiness. Is it real?
Is it genuine. this love which sprang
up suddenly because of an orchid dress
and hat that made her eyes lock I'M
usually blue?
She feels sure that If she hadn't
come home with all those beautiful
new clothes brother Harry would never
have noticed her.
She can't help feeling that his love
must be a very superficial thing If it
should kindle into flame over so slight
thing. If he'd really loved her he
would lave shown just a faint sign OF
1t in all the years he neglected her and
scornsd her.
Well, that's not so, Lola. This bust
ness Of love Is the most comic thing in
hA II
through the years. 1t doesn't always
spring from lorg association 1t very
often catches a spark from nothing
more significant than an orchid-cclored
dress and burns away quite merrily
/ thereafter-Just rs any substantial love
ought to.
You see. these men are funny crea-
lures. They will Ignore for years the
girl who lives right next door to them
because she Is too much a part CT the
family They will set her aside in then
minds as just nice kid. who's Away
around-and because she's III the par
t!cular section Of their minds shell
never arouse flutter In their hearts.
BUT let her. by sudden move, or &
sudden change of temperament, or q
sudden rush of popularity~~force her
self on their attention as being Il new
shift her into the realm OF interesting
possibilities.
You've seen it happen often You've
watched an unpopular girl go her dreary
way In the midst of a crowd that ig-
| nores her and neglects her Probably
| not A boy in the crowd has definite
| feeling against her He's simply got
| into the habit OF thinking of her as 8
| person who doesn't count.
| Let that girl 30 away for a while anc
come home with a few new slitors
many new clothes and a certain air o.
f-contidence--and the very men who
| ignored and scorned her will be at hel
feet, amazed that it took them so many
years 10 discover who the most beau
| ttful girl in town really was.
The poor boys have simply had Il
change their minds-~thats all.
Now your great love. Harry. had vor
all sealed up in a compartment labeled
Sisters friends" ard there YOU would
have stayed perhaps for the rest OF
your life without ever making him love
you--if YOU hadn't stepped cut of the
picture he's drawn for you. and sud-
denly flashed on his vision as a very
pretty young thing just back from
boarding school
You looked so different, so charming
tnat ne forgot which compartment you
belonged in fer the moment--and in
that second YOU won, He fell for YOU
then~-not because of the orchid -colored
dress, but because you looked like the
sort OF person he wanted to fall in love
with He'd never given himself the
chance to Go 1t before.
His love for you may be just rs real
es II 1t had started in the DAYS when
you wore p!gtails and played jumping
rope with his sister
Love AZ hundredth sight II lust as
possible end Just rs lasting as lore at
fret sight.
tCopyr:gat. 1927
Mimi will be glsd to answer any inaufries
| directed 10 this paner prsYided a stamped
Addressed envelope Is inel1sed