Show bo DO WE MAKE LOVE TOO MUCH A VIRTUE By WINIFRED BLACK Copyright 1915 by Newspaper r Feature Service Inc I saw them together the together tho two sisters the sisters the other day and oh the they wore were so 80 different each from the other One was young and fresh checked cheeked and bright lit eyed nn and contented S Sho She has two beautiful children a a circle of or delightful friends and a a. house with n a a conservatory off orr tho the dining room and anel a n. sleeping torch porch and a n. sun parlor and if youve you've ever lived 1 In a Middle West city you'll know Just what kind of at a n. house that Is and what 1 kind of ot people are luck lucky enough to live in It The other sister was palo pale and thin and no longer young and oh h. h the tragic ml misery miery ery of ot her And she's ahe's poor and struggling and ambitious ambitious- and broken hearted An And 1 the one who looks young youn Is the elder eider of or the two and the one who Is so palo pale an and 1 worn was ws tho the beauty of ot the family And It all happened like this They lived with their moth mother r In a middle sized town In a n. middle sized house with a 0 middle sized lawn with a an Iron dog on one side of or the walk and an Iron deer on the other side Tho The father was dead and the mother was wa president of ot the Ladles Ladies Aid society Both Doth of or the girls sang eang In the choir and nd ono one of or them taught the little boys boys' class In Sunday school a and d the other was a teacher of or the girls' girls infant class The Men They M Married a aOne aS S One of or the girls girla played the organ and th the other sang soprano In the tho choir But something something- happened to the mothers mother's S money and so 80 the house was sold Iron dog Iron deer medium sized lawn and all and the tho little family to tho big city and the girls went to work s I Thc They wore both clever clover both well educated and both did well In business Then they both fell relt In ill love both of or them foolishly and both of or them them strangely enough with clever men who drank The Tho elder eider sister thought It all alt out and one day when a a. good man I nat not so 80 brilliant as the other nor so handsome either fell felt In love lovo with her her she oho cried all night and in the tho morning she did diet up a package of ot little gifts and sent th them m back The other sister met another man too a good man maii who did not drink but she would not listen to him she loved tho the other man she said and antI shed she'd die If It she couldn't marr marry him She Sho couldn't live without him and she wouldn't try S Everybody E warned her all her friends reasoned with her ber and tho the mother of or the man who drank camo came and cried with her an and 1 told her herit It Was waa a Q terrible 6 5 1 1 risk to marry him And the prettiest sister ran away with tho the ma 1 drank JIll sf Ho didn't stop drinking and in three years years' time she had to and now she Is out in the world alone fighting and fighting and BO so pw able ablo and so 50 lonely and so heart broken that It makes maket you OU want to w wj Wok look at ut her hor The older sister Bister does a great deal of good with her money and ana J n. n great grent many people happy an and 1 tho the younger sister doe does I am am afraid II deal she IB is sometimes not quite I of or harm for tor she is so miserable that as RS sho should be in some wa ways s. s And the tho little girl she drags arO Joun j her the only child of or her marriage has to live In all kinds of or queer gj and know all aU kinds of or queer people Is la Romantic Love Good And I wonder and wonder about it all alt S DonT we make malec too much of ot a 1 virtue of or the thing we e call L Love v Wh 1111 write about It in poems and which seems to b be called b by quite quIto another when we meet It In the police courts Is it such a noble thing after all aH that sort Bart of love Jove 1 And ought we to delt deify dolfy it and make plays about It an and 1 talk as asa asa s a gr great ot quality to bo cultivated b by great minds All other things we Judge by their fruits t. t 1 I How Ho about this thing wo we call Romantic Love and the cruel ana an Ji wg fruit It so often orten bears |