Logan Republican | 1915-05-27 | Page 6 | Why Human Beings Often Fail to Pick Their Mate

Why Human Beings Often Fail To PickJheiF iale In tho Juno American Magazlno Walter Prlchard Eaton tells tho first In n now series of love storlos entitled "Tho Bird Houso Man." Tho first story Is called "Tho Song Spnr-row," Spnr-row," nnd in tho following extract taken from it two characters discuss bird mating and human mating: "Did you ovor roflect, said Aleck Farnuin, that tho birds never mako a mlstnko In mating It's only wo poor blundorlng humnns who get all mixed up In our mating. "Yes, Uicro's that Sally Flshor, sho's married a Jowl said Mrs. Plumb. Can't no happiness como of marrying a Jow, I say. "I'd go farther than that smiled tho man. It isn't so mueh Jow or Chi-neso Chi-neso or Slav that makes tho difference differ-ence in us humans; it's our souls. Somo of us nro wild ducks and somo of us aro hermits and somo of us aro domestic robins, or merry chickadees chicka-dees or cantankerous crows. Thoro are nightingales and song sparrows, as well as hawks and gracklcs. But wo don't find our own kind at mating mat-ing tlmo. Do you know why wo do not, Mrs. Plumb? "No. Will you havo somo moro peas? said sho. . "I will; thoy aro delicious, ho answered. an-swered. Tho first early peas nro always al-ways delicious. Tho nnswor to my question is that tho circulation among souls Is not froo enough. It Is too constricted. Love, Mrs. Plumb Is with us n mattor of proximity. Wo have to lovo, it's our nature. It wo aro a song sparrow, and there Is no other song sparrow In sight, wo foolishly fool-ishly fall In lovo with tho gracklo next door. That's tho wholo trouble with humanity!"