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Show j TIMELY TOPICS j ROMANCI IS NOT OIAD Tt ha become a pretty general habit among soma people to refer with ehade of longing to "the good old day" They talk glibly of "daya when knlghr were bold and when romaaeo and adventure lay In wait for the wayfarer around every corner or across very hill." Of eouraa It Isn't An things change In thla uncertain un-certain life, and tha world changee. but romanc wears different garments with ths ysara, for, being woman, aba muat heed the call of tha stylsa It la tha fault of the materialist himself, who, talking ef remaao and bemoaning her apparent abeenoe, fail to raoagnla her at hla aboulder. N lees an authority than Jossph Conrad la rapes ted ta have aald In a recant Interview that the romanc of the e dspartsd with sailing ehipe: on the other band, Kipling's old Scotch engineer, Mae-Andrew, Mae-Andrew, denied the fact and claimed there wa as much romanc In sailing on a steamer particularly whsa that steamer waa a wandering freighter aa on any bark that showed a clean pair of heels to ' a wind. Tbey are both right. Romanc of the we. Is -dead and romance of tha aeaa Uvea, only tn' romano I different. The live lived by sailors en steamers is different from that lived by able-bodied eeaatea before the meat ef a windjammer; but la the day t came when trade la carried oa by air ships, whsa steamers will bsvs bean almost drives from ths seven oceans, will there not be those to say plaintively. "A a. romance ta dead. It died with tha paaelng of the steamer" T And ao with other things. In ths daya of ths great war aid aoldlsrs wsrs never .tired of telling that warfare waa a longer what It uaed ta b. that It waa but a tremendous slaughter, and that all tha romanoe yee. romance had gone. Tot In the next great war will there not be thoss hardened veterans vet-erans sf HIT whs will sing tha aama refrain T , Undoubtedly t many romance will alsraya be of the paat. Bom day the omnlpreeent automoblls will be Inveeted with a cloak of romance aeen through a mellowing ntlet of memory and yeara and people grown need ta whirling through apaos at Incredible epeed will view, la soms mussum perhapa, a prs-ssrved prs-ssrved roll of present-day transportation and tall each, other, aa eome of ua do now when viewing or reading ef old stage coaches, "Ah, thoee were the daya!" Thoee war the days, undeniably; but thee are the daya, tee. And as long aa spring blooms and thers la youth and love dreams there will be romance, ro-mance, different yet eternally tha soma Marlon BUST.. ' |