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Show WOMEN ABE LIKE CHRYSANTHEMUMS. They are brilliant and they have admirers, BUT NO ONE IS GOING TO LOVE THEM. The true 'womanliness lies in the capacity for loving. WITHOUT IT A WOMAN IS" LIKE A FLOWER WITHOUT PERFUME. She may attract, at-tract, but her admirers will be only the fickle butterflies. but-terflies. The bees in search of the sweetness of life will waste no time with her. THE LOVE IN A WOMAN, BE IT FOB PA-BENTS, PA-BENTS, HUSBAND OB CHILD, WILL GLOBIFY AND BEAUTIFY HEB, EVEN THOUGH SHE BE PLAIN OF FEATURE. Men like loving women. They would like roses for their perfume, though beauty were denied the rose. But the roses and violets are many and the chrysanthemums chrys-anthemums fewJ LET US HOPE THAT OUR CIVILIZATION CIV-ILIZATION WILL NEVEB BECOME DECADENT DECA-DENT ENOUGH TO -CAUSE OTHEB THAN THE SAME BATIO BETWEEN LOVING AND UN-LOVING UN-LOVING WOMEN. Crysanthemums. The chrysanthemum is in. favor now. You will ( . W'0 it in almost every buttonhole and carried in almost al-most every fair hand. It is a pretty flower, but we admire it only.' We do not feel affection for it. A YOUNG MAX DOES NOT SEND A BUXCII OF CHRYSANTHEMUMS TO THE GIRL HE ADORES WHEN HE WISHES THE BLOSSOMS TO CARRY A MESSAGE OF LOVE. Not he. ' There is no sentiment attaching to a chrysanthemum. chrysanthe-mum. He sends roses or violets. Why? Because they have perfume. Chrysanthemums Chrysan-themums have none. EVEN IF ROSES AND VIOLETS LACKED BEAUTY WE WOULD LOVE THEM BECAUSE OF THEIR SWEETNESS. No one will ever love a chrysanthenuim. So it is with women. Many women, young ones especially, who think they know the world and life because they have read some "smart' novels and . had a flirtation or two, affect to be quite cynical. THEY PROFESjS TO DOUBT ALL MEN AND TO REGARD LOVE AND MARRIAGE AS HAVING HO CONNECTION WITn HAPPINESS. SUCn |