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Show T zi t uCalf" Love Explained at Last! Youthful Masculinity Seeks Prop for Mind and Soul NEW YORK. Nov. : Why I eaftj I love ? 11 is, beyond n doubt any man Ihej age. of say. 22, will admit Its existence: j '.some of them even going so far ad to ; telalm having conquered it. But whyj 'Is it? Why, to put the quest Iqji thoroughly,, is a young man, strong, ambitious,; ,1'lru'd sNith high id-a!s .in all tin- world: Of youthful feminity lo ir for. easl- J est caught and helo by the woman of! i.nj or 40 tr 60? I The question Is not so puzzling, according ac-cording to Mary Ifoung, nor so surpris- 'ing as it ; tjenr:i on the surface. Audi I Miss Voting speaks with mil horlty at j the presenl mqnient she is giving a masterly interpretation of a mature woman playing havoc with the affec-i lion of youthful masculinity in The! Outrageous Mrs Palmer."' at the Thirty-Ninth Street theatre. New York. IN Al l, OF is .v LONGING. "First of j II." said Miss Young.! there is In all of us a longing that is stronger than love a longing for syna-; pathy. Rather. I will ay it is one of: the elements ot loe. and the Strongest; so strong, indeed, that it is very often! mistaken for the grand passion itself ! Especially is this desire for sympathy I I Inherent in the male of the species. The "iri is seeking romance, Mias Young says Chat though lie doesn't know it. nd wouldn't admit It if he did, the young man Is seeking sympathy ho is tied to his mothers' ..juimi strings' ail his lte figuratively. Me wants to be mothered. In her opinion, opin-ion, and the stronger he Is the mure mflnly and more strenuous in the world of business into which he plunges, t hotstrongor is this feeling. Hi rua be caughl by the gny butterfly girl or ihe vampiro may excite ex-cite d languid Interest, but his mimi ; and his soul seek n prop There, de-1 clarea .diss JToungi Is tli.c answoi' why, calf love almost always ,?oes out to n mature woman, and in it she sees all other suppositious answers Involved. It Is because, while the jonnrer wo-j man demands perfection spelled in; capital letters, a knight to shield her, j the older woman Is much nioie toler-l ant, much more willing and ready lo accept the youth as he Is. SUE TAKES HIM SERIOtflBUS ' At least she is willing to work out a reformation," Miss Young continues, "if reformation is necessary, in ways lh.it arc so subtle as never to hurt or startle. She takes th- youth at his iv, :i valuation, or allows him to think that she does; In a world that has sometimes hurt his feelings by laugh-ling laugh-ling at him by not 'taking blm seriously" seri-ously" she apparently discovers In him qualities Which he had been certain he possessed but which no one else had Jvinic Y i uunu " Tin Outrageous Mr Palmer," iu:s . Ejmpatlietic explanation .r calf love- seemed able to see. In short, he Is .aurc that he has met the one bl in-(who in-(who 'understands' hini "So, you see. it Is easy to comprehend compre-hend why he should ho attracted and held. dsSplte a disparity of years for her, in the cases where the attraction attrac-tion holds and doesn't pass off In a mutual laugh of understanding when ;lht years bring wisdom, it is because w all love that which We create, and the young man who has passed his for-matlvd for-matlvd years under tb- tutelage of a 'woman is Iht creation, mentally, at least, far more than he ever was hia mother's. j "Balzae-'s advice to young men anx-b"s anx-b"s 1 1 1 "licfcil In tb,. World was, first. I to gain the friendship of a clever woman. wo-man. 'And.' said he. 'in no circumstances circum-stances should she be less than 30. If from 3a lo 40 all the belter.' " |