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Show Is Thirty i I the Lovep i I Deadline Charles G. Shaw was born in New York City in May, 1892, and received his early education edu-cation at the Friends' Seminary, later entering the Sheffield Scientific school of Yale univer-sitj, univer-sitj, from which he was graduated in 1914. The following year be spent at the School ot Agriculture at Columbia and in 1916-17 wrote articles for various magazines. During the World war be trained at Kelly field, Texas, and served overseas as lieutenant with the Three Hundred and Thirty-fifth aero squadron, A. E. F-, returning home shortly after the Armistice He has been writing steadily since 1921. He has composed over five hundred notes on the subject of love and written under seven different dif-ferent pseudonyms. Mr. Shaw lives in New York and is still a bachelor. B CHARLES G. SHAW According to the able and distin guisiied Or. Will Durant, love Is a hopeless business for him who has ultimately arrived at the great age ot thirty, 'o .vliich asseveration. 1 make so hold as to object. 1 object, what is more, for the following crystallized and, 1 believe, pertinent reasons: 1. Love, among several hundreds of other tilings, means understandings, sympathy, and consideration. None of these qualities is in the least pe culiar to youth. 2. Durinp adolescent love. Jealousies, Jeal-ousies, all too frequently, play uphappy but important roles. Neither of the twain involved is at all sure of the other; indeed it is rare that either is even sure of him (or her) self Doubt and suspicion are the double headed Issue, a destructive offspring and corrosive to romance. Free from these youthful misgivings, the fellow of middle-age will necessarily view matters in a more humane and tolerant toler-ant light. Forgiveness is begot with years. 3. Love means appreciation. The appreciation ap-preciation of youth is never equal to that of middle-age. 4. To a man over thirty, love at once becomes a far more serious undertaking, un-dertaking, and, though admittedly a condition less frequently experienced than in the case of a man under thirty, thir-ty, when experienced, cuts deeper into the heart. The younger fellow half the time will cajole himself that he Is in love. There is no such nonsense for the other. He knows it. 5. The assumption that a man over thirty is incapable of love is the assumption as-sumption thnt love is a mere flash in the pan, an emotional comet But love Is not a question of a few months Nor, for that matter, of a few years Love is the study of i lifetime. ' 6. Love leans upon beauty. And rare is he who is able to behold In his twenties the beauties that exist for hiin in subsequent years. 7. The estimable Doctor Durant de clares that "a man above thirty may go wild over a blond 'chorine'," and adds: "That is not love." To the lat ter statement I agree. As to the for mer, the phrase: "go wild" Is foi youth, not for middle-age. 8. The doctor is of the belief, ton that one should marry at the "nat ura!" age in other words, the "silly" age. Yet would it not seem there an already enough divorces due to "silly' age marriages? !. Love, for a woman, includes a touch of importance in the man. I m portance comes to few of os before the first thirty years. 10. For the man over thirty, low assumes a soberer and more stahh mien lie has tramped further nlnn the mail of experience and. hence, l other tilings being equal, will fail i. succumb wiih the same degree of ens as his younger brother. Moreovc: his falling in love Is more exactinv His is the subller skill also in tie tendernesses ol aiiiour. which art. in cidentally. imisi he learned as all other arts, for while one's ground work, garnered in the Rush of yuiiih Is 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 i 1 : 1 1 1 1 .v necessary. II is th, technique acquired in riper years tie: lends the essential qualify to Hi prime product. Behind lies the ephemeral period (lioctor Duram .-"natural'' .-"natural'' age), when the first entne 1 hither wink ot a shingle-headed Hup per caused our hero to swallow hi:-wad hi:-wad of chewing gain, clutch his ro;;i just below the handkerchief pneke-ami pneke-ami rush headlons to the neares jeweler's. 11. It Is a different typo ol lux true enough, thai comes to a mat alter thirty. Kilt surely it is a solidci saner, and stauncher type a love n fine, thnt makes for the possibilities of an ever-enduring devotion. 12. In conclusion, 1 would note tin names of a few men over thirty, wii it would appear, have most certain!.! been capable of falling in love i wit: Hubert Itrowning, at the uge n thirty-three; Ilonore de Balzac, i thirty-four; Otto Kduard Leopold via Bismarck at thirty-one; Horatio .".V son, at forty! Aaron Burr, at thin, eight; Heinrich Heine, at tliirty-sevei Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire. . thirty-nine ; Jolinnn Wolfgang !.i Goethe, at thirty-eight; Blaise Base., at thirty-one; Jean Jacques Ilousse; at thirty-three; Napoleon I, (it fori, one; Goya y Lucienfes, at forty-ihe Julius Caesar, at fifty-two; Loin XIV, at forty-two; Wilhelm Richard Wagner, at fifty-seven! Luigi Cornaro at seventy-nine; Thomas Parr, al eighty . . . But why continue? History, the arts, science, government, Industry life in all its phases Is rich with such examples. ((c) 1028. bv (he Rcll Svndleate. Inc.) |