Show OVE IS NEVER BUND BLUM little ittle god may do strange things but his eyesight Is of the best r miriam became engaged to J marry fred she had beard heard much and read more about love 1 I love is a this love la is that love Is 1 the other thing love gives all love demands sacrifices love spoils spells happiness love means misery and so on through a long list ot of possible and impossible conditions being a perfectly normal man fred had certain faults some of them were glaring but mir lam if she saw them at all forgave them because she loved him A friend said miriam I 1 dont see how bow you can endure fred hes so full of faults but I 1 suppose love la 1 bird and ou dont notice his shortcomings then it was that miriam consulted aunt anna Is love blind auntie dear said she or does it give one an insight into the real charm and goodness un been seen by others that depends child upon the bind kind of love and also upon the cat tal surely from the many misfits the many unsuitable matches we see I 1 am inclined to say that love Is not only blind but deaf and dumb as well you remember my ipar jim merlin an avowed worshiper of beauty married ellen short one of the home liest girls in the village we see beautiful women marrying perfect frights coarse ignorant men and an one scarcely can pick up a pa per but one sees a story of an heiress Pl loping alth nith a chauffeur or groom a boy marrying a woman old enough to be his grandmother or a sweet young debutante selling herself to the an dent clent millionaire it seems to me the only way we e can account tor for these vagaries of senti ment Is that cupid has suddenly been struck blind or a long distance telescope enables him to see charms and perfections iu lu individuals that are quite invisible to the rest of tho the world replied the younger miriam you have often said of your own friends 1 I cannot tell what on earth she sees in that man to love hes es such an impossible person no doubt some of our friends say the same thing of you and fred thus wo we go on pondering over this mystery of love love that comes without invitation end sometimes goes we know not where 1 I think dear the truth of the matter te is that love between a man and oman ls purely a matter of attract tion on and t that hat neither er eyesight nor judgment pi plays ays any part dart whatever is wo we love or we hate by instinct it heart heat not a 2 matter ot of head but of ahe A it woman nan may observe in a man ivery admirable lot 0 love quality yet she cun can him yet tho the roan man who pos esses sea many faults which she plainly trying trying 11 may to win her love without oven even M als ilert you know are curI curious ani ant ls Is pl one e may pass by a woman who endow ed with all the virtues ts the ashment nent and femininity the charm char M of sot et tie e butterfly will a c crude r aide lit y of fashion e ither with n no 0 claim ter to good looks or wisdom |