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Show Love at First Hand Great Thing in Life First love comes before tile age of knowledge. It is the only love entirely entire-ly unemcumbered with ideas and preconceptions. pre-conceptions. How little it has to do with words, with talk ! It knows no terms. It Is the thing itself from which terms and institutions have grown up. First lovers get love at first hand, instead of getting first the idea of romance into which to try to tit themselves and other people, Louise Townsend Nicoll writes, In the Century. Cen-tury. They seldom talk. They get acquainted in other ways by being near each other, by looking at each other, by softly, shyly touching hands. They do things together play games, run races. As watchful as small animals, ani-mals, they learn minutely each about !he other. But they do not talk They give each other things, always in fair exchange, and wear them out with carrying about. When they muit know facts to supplement their findings, find-ings, they ask short, hiunt questions. Opinion and discussion have little play. |