| Show LOVE THE THING THE POETS RAVE ABOUT Eleanor I try to think I j love my wife But if if- there thero are two parts to a man he can love in two different ways That other part of me the real part of me the deathless changeless part part well well it doesn't surprise you to be told that it loves you does it Homer it-Homer Homer Gaunt in in The Terms of Conquest by Howard Vincent OBrien And I had thought I loved Here was love that had fought un une unendurable unendurable un- un e endurable durable pain and been silent for no other reason that to make itself more acceptable to the one beloved Love that was fighting now for forno forno forno no other reason Why what did I know of love I who had stumbled among its shallows never guessing that love does not reach depths in pleasure pleasure Amy Amy Loring in Feet of Clay by Margaretta Tuttle I used to think that marriage is a very easy thing that plays it it it- self A game of sorts But it Its It's not a mere adventure either but a vocation a calling by the will of God in which two people are in in partnership holding each others other's happiness in equal trust And If both dont don't agree as one to work for fop the success of the firm and not for individual triumphs there is bankruptcy and dissolution even if there has been a dividend dividend- in the shape of a child The Golden Rule is patience and forbearance and a knowledge of when to be alone Laughter and open windows and frequent spring cleans and no barriers and mental everything out in the sun Beatrix sun Beatrix Franklin in Another Scandal by Cosmo Hamilton These three paragraphs V represent represent represent sent the reactions to that emotion which Is commonly known as love I In different characters of t three r e three different books as written by three d different erent authors from which Each one of the books these paragraphs are quoted contain contain con con- Incipient or active ac- ac some form In tam tain problem of or the triangle triangle tri tri- old age tive Uve the and is Is' interesting to compare angle authors work out cut u uby how these three Terms or of In The themes their Howard by Howard Vincent OBrien O'Brien Conquest Little V Brown Drown Co Homer Homer Ho- Ho marries one the hero Gaunt mer subconsciously loving another girl when the other girl life lIte Later Latr In itt In important part an play comes to back to find that t be he looks his hUMKe life that he has hs cherIshed cherished cher- cher at t the same time loved love for her he has his in met Us also Wh When n they his their heir wife early youth he was a gawky society boy she was a printers printer's him socially lIe belle far above worshipped the beautiful princess daughter lie He married the tanners farmers lived a peaceful somewhat somewhat some some- however home life Ufe with what monotonous two children by her had her and the never lost his love for tor yet he ho He TIe tries to explain It to princess words which head Eleanor eanor in the does not OBrien O'Brien this his article Mr Can Cana question mooted answer th the two women at once a man love may read between directly but one lines line's suggestion that perhaps perhaps perhaps per per- the the lines Persistent love is haps that which the most is never culminated ANOTHER PROBLEM In J Feet of Clay by Margaretta l Little Brown punished by Tuttle is quite another Co the problem heroine the tho sort Amy Loring S choice between two men makes her Is Immensely rich and one who dependent depend depend- loves whom she the other modest salary She I ent upon a latter and on once e having marries the him enough she loves married him of her bargain best the to make malte and clis- clis j and in spite ot of her po poverty i I she turns a deaf ear eai to the suggestions of at the man who had been the other suitor for her hand It Is a relief reller to meet Amy Loring after some other heroines we have known She struggles and suffers Butters and finds love which love which in it itself itself it- it self Is not strange the strange the unusual ly lyIng lying lying ly- ly ing In the fact tact that she ends up with the same men with whom she started out cut This is distinction enough in itself to make the book famous LOVE AFTER MARRIAGE Another Scandal takes up the qu question stion of at love after atter marriage In his hia latest novel Just published by Little Brown Co Mr Cosmo Hamilton has t taken ken for his character character charac charac- ter the giddy flapper who marries and has a baby If It you will look back to the paragraph quoted from the book at the head of or this article you will see that the flapper has hasI I become a II philosopher Written charmingly and with piquant humor humor hu hu- hu- hu mor mon Another Scandal puts across the message indicated in that quotation quotation quotation quo quo- I tation In an effectively sugarcoated sugar coat ed form A wee designing young person would tempt the young young- husband bus hus band from his upright way but the tho flapper turned wife wite and mother fights to regain his love which love which she has never really lost by the way way way- and does win It back bacle Beatrix's yearning for another fling her re rebellion re- re hellion bellion against set settling tung down to married life Homer Gaunt's tenacious tenacious tenacious tena tena- cious love for his dream girl even after ho he had married and was livIng livIng living liv liv- ing not unhappily with another woman the mother of or his his his' children were were not these instances of or a de desire desire desire de- de sire for romance Life Lire often orten be becomes becomes becomes be- be comes or seems to become such a prosaic matter that It Is a aery ery very human human hu- hu nian man desire to run away from reality reality reality real real- ity and play with romance Sometimes Sometimes Sometimes Some Some- times the Impulse acted upon leads heads to real happiness but sometimes sometimes' it leads to a realization that such happiness happiness happiness hap hap- is to be found when the ad adventure adventure adventure ad- ad venture has run its course at ones one's own fireside V u |
