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F Fox Foa U la married B By FONTAINE FOX 1 I had forgotten the name of that flagpole nj sitting champion who makes his lU 1 living by spending weeks week at It a time cut oft off from rota humanity while IU suspended suspend suspend- end ed ell In a chair from a pole on top of some high building that needs publicity Then time the other day I t read something that brought It nil all back The Tile flagpole sitting champion Is Dr Will Durant burant and while I cannot remember remember re to member what flagpole hi ht Inhabits now It seems to me he be won his bill championship cham la last t summer out la In Chicago It must have hue been 1 Durant because In the newspaper article to which I refer he had hod written that a I aman aman man Is Incapable of fulling falling In 10 love and ond giving a woman woman sIncere devotion after atter he passes oses the time age of thirty Could anyone but a flagpole nail hermit have e mid and mid and meant such meant such a thing Certainly not There Is II an advertising slogan of ot some ome paint company which says Save a the Surface and You Save uve All Men and women too are embraced by the theory of that slogan because when the original love cracks and peels they need a n new vv coat coul of ot rose- rose colored paint A properly conducted marriage is not a perpetual love affair by bl any ony kind of reckoning Indeed it Is la Isa Isa laa a succession of love affairs between the time same man and the same woman Kuch affair may last for tor about the time length of time that Doctor Durant might sit on 00 a flagpole Pity city two weeks The Time Intervals are the time placid periods period during which the lady and the gentleman gentleman gentleman gentle gentle- man of the establishment get along without rioting dwell In mutual terest like a couple of ot pos passengers In Ina Ina ina a street car Those placid Intervals may continue for malt halt a day duy or a day duy or any number of ot days depending on Oft the individuals Involved tn Naturally this behavior persists until people are far for beyond thirty even unto old age and occasionally or oftener the stimulus Ius lus to love Is excited by some lome third party There Is a grandfather of ot my acquaintance ac who was a loving husband and father by bl all Lh the lime standards of ot until he be suffered u II wayward wayward way way- ward outbreak of this disorder called culled love lo and doped to California with a woman of forty I got oil all the details at the club one day during luncheon from the man mun who was sent West to retrieve e the grandfather ther timer It Is my further contention that thU pi pledl predisposition exposition to fall In love lo Is what drove e those dose ascetics of early earl Christian times to shin up poles to live An n tiny platforms They Timey knew they could never lIe keep klep their vows vow if It they remained re re- on the ground ground even even the Uie old ones with long white he beards rd They were afraid of themselves It I U is my opinion that the time world Is full of ot line tine men and women who are fur fat be beyond ond thirty who are capable of ot falling In love violently recklessly and completely but who are constrained by the myriad threads of responsibility ity to withstand temptation This I. I why the passionate dramas of or middle- middle aged aed lovers that get Into the time newspapers pert pen usually concern people peoples who ho lave have havea lavea a wide wille streak of ot selfishness running through their characters For or a while I lived In a II Chicago sub sut suburb urb which was rocked by the time so culled so-culled culled scandal of a married 11 woman's womans elope went menu Thirty You lou should have ha heard the neighborhood gossip cousin guilds guild's adding machine at work on tem lem They Timey figured she war wag forty eight If she was a day The woman left her tier husband and her children for tor the nth oth IT er r man and they drove e away In iii her husbands husband's automobile which was VR quite In character with the lover lo lie lle was we later discovered a thoroughly thoroughly thor disreputable person who mad hut Served er a prison sentence for some ome other oth ohm other ohmer er form of at larceny Several Sl years have paused passed u led and yet ret the luvere ivere are reported to be ln 11 living together to seemIngly seem seemingly still Infatuated with eich ech other Such tiling things you may say are not entirely en en- rational but neither U is full falling I 1110 In love rational for which reason renson I 1 feel feci that thai men like Doctor Durum should be prohibited by law from oils oils- the subject with a pretense e of authority You cannot find out about it In books or while meditating on top of a flagpole More l I b to be learned on a park bench In the corridors corridors cor cor- of ot the time hits or when the Ice Iceman iceman man walks Into the time kitchen I iel Ie mi 1525 b by the tho not non Syndicate Inc loe |