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Show COSMO HAMILTON DENIES IDEAL LOVE IS EXTINCT of the future e-enerstlons are marrying marry-ing for love. Just as they have always been doing. You don't ae many young girls going out with old men for their money. No sir! They are a jolly, sen-alble sen-alble lot. - They are going to "flap around for awhile and then they are going to settle down in a nice little apartment In Harlem or the Bronx and raise children of their own. And they are not marrying for money, for jolly few of them have the money to do It with." "The Krench author cannot say such a thine even about love tn Paris," Mr. Hamilton continued, "Americana have rather a vague Idea of Paris aa a wild place. 'So this le Paris - Is their cry. But one cannot Judge Paris any more by the Follies Bergere than one can Judge New York by Broadway, A few blocks from Broadway are the homes of many, happy families and the proof that family Mfe la attractive lies in the fact that ao many stick to it. i I "It Is the same the world over," Mr. Hamilton concluded, removing hla cigaret from hla holder. "Lovs Is just i aa potent as ever. my RUTH SNYDER. , 1 NEW YORK, Aug. 4. U Ideal lotrt a thing of the past? Haa the luxury ef Wgh living throttled throt-tled and smothered our better emotions? emo-tions? What do you think? - A Frenchman has written a book irhich ha hsa called' "Love of Today To-day " In It he. has said man liilnxs sgalnst v the existence of ideal love which call either for confirmation or refutation. So several well known New York men and women have bean akd to dlscuas this question. The Evening Eve-ning World will print their Apluluc in a series of articlea Cosmo Ham I Hon, author and play-wilght, play-wilght, will tell In today's article how rkliculous In his opinion, are the declarations dec-larations of the French author. "Ideal love Is buried in the graves of those long dead," the Frenchman wrote, "Few today experience it. Boredom Bore-dom and lack of sympathy have taken the place of the grand pa salon. Men and women of today have but one aim. and that la to find entertainment and pleasure in great esyough variety to prevent ennuf. "Tha great peas Ion of today ta for the luxury of hlsh living and our better emotions are throttled. In the murderous competitive struggle to live and attain luxury, man loses ths strength necessary for the finer emotions emo-tions of love. There remains to him neither the money nor the time to erect an alter to the women. 'That's bally rot." Cosmo Hamilton declared when told of these views. "Dribble like fhst was either written by a maw who wants to write sensational sensa-tional stuff or by a man who la too young to know any better. "Of course love exists today just aa much aa It did from the time of Adam and Eve down. If there were no auch thing as love, marriage would be a total failure. And la it a fall-! 1 urer Newapapers and aenaaflonal nov-; nov-; els may throw a cold douche on matrimony, matri-mony, hut the sensational a tor lea are flrat page stories. If there were more unhappy marriages there , would he ; more firet-page scan date. No, such 1 eases sa this one of ths model snd her ! fifty-year-old admirer are rare. They : only serve to hold up a cracked mlr-1 mlr-1 ror to a very amall corner of the world, i I Pel levs that o pes cent snd that ! ia good percentageof marriages are successful, snd they would not he auc-ceasful auc-ceasful If they were not founded on love." "A men snd woman are not going to live together If they do not love one snother," Cosmo Hamilton continued, con-tinued, as he settled back eomfortably In the buelneaa like chair In the comfortable com-fortable library of his apartment at sot) Madison avenue. "If a nutn Is looking for oompen-ronship oompen-ronship he doesn't have to marry to get It, If he lin t eatisfied with home life It la easy enough for him to say Good by. I'm going over to the club. But he doesn't do It. No because the majority of men and women are finding find-ing love strong enough to hold them toKsther. I'm an optimist on this subject sub-ject I believe that the world Is juat ss normal today as It ever waa. They say that we are deacended from won. keya. Yes end monkeye are deacended from ua. Monkeys are the prod uc la of loveless murrlagra and there are very few monkeys. The faot that we are paying auch large Income taxea proves that we are normal. It ahowa that we are n working, am.V4ua people. "Walk up liark aveifufe an afternoon. after-noon. WaUr'up any residential avenue. ave-nue. And what do you ae? Children everywhere. Isn't that proof that love and marriage are still existing, tn a sane way? look at the average boy and girl today. The hoya who come down from college are clean, upatand-- upatand-- lug American cttlaena. Theae glrla, i who are termed flappers, are real normal, nor-mal, healthy girls. True they nj-e flapping and dopping s round for a cou-p4e cou-p4e of years but let them. It's a good thing for them. They know that after . they do they are going to settle down I the mothers of tomorrow. The rea. I eon that more girls snd boys are not I marrying Is not because love Is a dead i thing. It la for one of two reaaon a. I Either they have not yet fallen In love or It la hrcauae they are too poor to marry. The French autlor eays that the "great passion of today is for ths luxury of high living.' that bread has crowded out the heart. How much luxury have we? Aren't the ma. )orffy of us out of ths 'high-living clans T -'What of the targe number of dl-' dl-' vorce cases?" was suggested to Mr. Ua mil ton. "And who ars the people who are Getting the divorces? air. Hamilton come back. "They ere not the young ' people. Thaw are the people who have 1 been married fifteen or twenty years people who married for love but wbe ! nave reached the dangerous sg the I age where a man will try to find love i aaain the love of a young peraon. But he will get over that age and coma ! back te hia firet love. But the yeung people of today they are -the ones to j whoa we must lock lor tha sue esse , , . - |
