Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-04
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES 3. TRACEWELL.

some NIGHT a rough-neck man and Q
ro,,0h.neck belle from the hinterlano
decided to get married. The vows were
taken and the happy couple decided TO
20 to their home, but they had not CAL
culated on their friends.
"These rough-necks and rouen-neck-
esses, II such term may be permitted,
found q hog cart with rails around tne
sides and in the top, and INTO tnis
wagon the happy pair was thrust.
Then, to the tune OF bells ana louo
mirth, the couple was pulled arouno
the streets of the village, to the mingled
disgust and amusement Of the remainder
Of the townspeople.
"I can recall to this day my own SEN
sationS at the sight. 1t made me fght-
ing mad. II I had been big enough,
would have broken up the entire pro-
ceeding and released the cowed couple.
st will never forget them as saw
them pass out Of sight into the DARK
standing huddled there In the pigpen
frightened, not knowing what to expect
next.
EVEN in their british minds there
must have been some disgust at the
ribald way In which they were being
treated. They were lumpish-lookine
pair, ! must admit, but In the woman
at lCdSt tIlCIG SCSLllCu 6OAAAC 8A4AAAAAOA AA8O
Of higher things.
"And to many who looked at this
diSagreeable spectacle, all the more SO
because most of the participants actu-
ally were enjoying themselves. 1t seemed
that human love could sink TO NO
lower degree.
Marriages are said to be made in
laouoV1 htIt that made In
pigpen. Between 1t and that OF a
civilized couple there is o distance
greater than between heaven and earth
"I have always noticed that the stage
plays, where romantic love flourisheS
present US only with certain scenes. In
these the lovers act as lovers should
but the strange part is that they fail
to show them in the ordinary events of
everyday life.
Romance in the popular fancy seems
to be devoid of eating and such other
necessary actions as are an inSeparable
part of life. Love and Cheese and
summing up love In q cottage.
Unfortunately, love In q cottage or
elsewhere has to have aome more SUBJ
stantial background than either cheese
or kisses. The latter are particularly
poor substitute for food, or for q dry
habitation, or for music even, or good
books.
THUS millions Of women have per-
mitted romantic love to escape them in
order to get what has been called In
popular language good provider. The
good provider Is not noted for kisses
which last O minute at time. He in
dulges in no huge signs, but goes
soundly to sleep at moments notice.
This same good provider, seen from
the other side, might have been a
flaming youth Of his day and generation
who mildly hoped to find q true love OF
the heroic heroine variety.
He found it no more than she did
but neither one Of them laments. Each
knows that heroic love Is more or less
OF . myth. scarcely to be found in a
world based solidly on physical things.
Better than these dreams of love is
the substantial honesty Of affection
which Is human enough to appreciate a
kiss as kiss. It Is affection which
keeps men and women true, decent and
honest, and which FORCES bonds that dc
not end with death. So affection be-
comes love, and u love in the best
sense"