Show file ie Seven Seven- Ages of f Love W nr- nr i c By N Nixola xola Smith Greeley-Smith HE HEAGE AGE OF DREAMS t are re seven ag ages S o of ot love and routers fers from another r 1 n 1 glory lory veIs Is the most wonderful and J table of human emoTe emo- emo Te e aie ie le in the a it of making t of saying to innocent young j just st coming conlin's down with a ack ack ck Pouf pour its nothing you'll it t th CY y get over ft Jt t. t mores more's I d grow juto flito middle midale aged I I like Just a aare as i i I I I P j are t to ol entourage an an ai bc t J bo i I n h tp p them quite a as a. it if ve We g b.- b. r b f- f inside a a. a scarlet I fe-i fe- fe i inline its awful if f course people h have ve had at and 11 oyer O It and you h have lave vc it a s second cold time i I Ia a unfortunately unfortunate is quite I V i if r Ol oi f of us knows th t loc ld 0 1111 arc snug smug suc UC l l beings of or both 8 ies r genuinely bewildered r d. d by the Importance luve Seems to th sc it touches Th There re are Suspect the em emotions they Id i d women s who sneer aner r inI mit in- in li I it t feelings they arouse J I s. s pat us tS foolish to ta q think that that lat 1 capable of loving as s to j I one can write po po-i po i ild ld raIS or like i Duncan Men speak of the the love the eighth eighths tc ten i art which Includes all We Ye are asked some some- some someI I hY men have s surpassed phe lG seven arts b but t jt t is I that men equal I w women men I lovIng of I thought occasionally that It I Iel el as mothers are ICe ife Usef that they are gent genss gen gen- gen I ss sa successful than men in n t perishable mediums of ulc c plant or clay this may be I should say ay r proportion of men to women j g a n. serious love one to twenty ads s a double life In thed the e. e d I I hearts of ot many men Quite recently a young man quoted to me mc with apI approval ap ap- a line from a current play I Ore woman to love and another to toI respect and said that for him it I would be impossible to love and respect respect respect re- re th the same woman that when he hei i married l he would woul l marry for respect only This opinion one o of ot the ugly weeds r of ot Puritanism is quite common I among certain types which I pity more I i the unfortunates they love hove or the vie vie- tims Urns of oC their respect No such division occurs in the first Ago Age of Lo Lo e Love th e-th the Age g re 91 tan an Lager uge tr r rarely relf lasts into the thie twenties ties s but which may begin at 12 or even i 10 Jo 0 In the last generation and ann in II e cr every every generation before it boys boys' had hadman man many things to dream of of-ct of of f being soldiers soldiers sol sol- sol sol- diers being president being cowboys s 's or gold Eold seekers but girls haa baa only a s single theme They could be nothing have nothing except through love hove And so girls began beg to think about love loe very early indeed My 1 own V very ry early childhood was made glorious by a dream of a being known both to m me and the nurse who had told lold me about him hm as the Prince of Whales At the ago age of 4 I had fully determined to marry him and would some times describe to other little girls the blue silk dress I Intended to wear at the the ceremony And Ard then one day an ambitious little listener broke into the blue silk rhapsody sod sody to say that she too was vas going to marry the prince rince of Whales we all alII thought hs name meant that he was wasa a whale of a prince I I was as perfectly willing to divide hi him n stinginess never having been I one of my vices but another far wiser little girl threw the Apple of Discord into the little group by by- byde de declaring declaring de- de claring charing that only one of us could be the bride Discussion rose to argument argument argument ment and argument to personal persona combat com corn bat which brought the mother of my mv rival Thal into the room And she with what she fondly believed was the saple sa- sa cy of Solomon put an end to therow the therow row and also to my first da day dream by saying that the Prince of Whales was middle aged married 1 and had children old enough to be our mothers So end imd all dreams And so all princes turn out to be middle aged I and married even if we have to marry them thein ourselves But their reign is glor glorious ous nevertheless and the Age o of Dreams ms is the Golden Age of Love I Copyright 19 isis 1918 5 by the tho Press Co o the N N. N Nan Nan- w York Tork Publishing World |