Show 1 Dorothy Dix Talks 1 SINCE MEN MN AND WOMEN LOVE EACH OTHER WITH HEART RATHER THAN HEAD THERES THERE'S NO LOGIC TO WE IT-WE IT LOVE OUR Olin MATES IN SPITE OF THEIR FAULTS FAULiS BUT rouT PARENTAL LOVE IS BLINDEST OF ALL IT IT SEES NO FAULTA FAULT FAULTA A A A ENT ask asks this question c 5 Does love blind 1 one lne to tho the faults of oC another or does It give one Olle a deeper l t Into the thC real seal charm and goodness ot of r that thatIs thatis Is 18 unseen by the many bany That depends depend upon the kind of hs h's j love Also upon th the Individual i k thinly Judging from roni the tho many able ble we see ee one Out I Is InS In dined in-dined dined to lay Cay that lovi lovO 10 Is II not riot only enly 4 blind but deaf and arid dumb and afflicted with paralysis S jaB II E OBSERVE men who bAY have always been a vr yr avowed worshiper of o female beauty mar mar- marrying martt mar yi tt ying s-ying women woo who ho ar are as homel homely AS the thega s i proverbial 1 mud fence Wa Wo see soe women who bo I lb i lire Eire dainty cultured and re refined ned marrying men who are coarse an and Ignorant Wa WI cant can't pick pickup E I up a paper without readIng of oC an n heiress who i i I has eloped Wl with her chauffeur or of ot II a boy who ii- ii t has hIlS married a woman old enough to te be hl his hll DOROTHY DIX grandmother grandm The only way we can un account for these thue vagaries of sen un sen- sen sentiment sentiment I Is on the ground that Cupid has hu got or else elte that he has hu a II long distance telescope glued to his hla lye eye ye which enables enable him to see lee great grut charm and perfection in individuals that are aro Invisible to the rot rest of lf ui us TIlE HUB T almost universal comment at a R wedding Is I 1 cant can't imaino hat si-hat ho lie saw aw In her to nuke make him want to marry merry her anil anfor heaven heavens heaven's take sake what hat do you rou oU suppose I sh Bho saw In him that made mafle he heC PI him out for Cor a husband And AntI we go home darkly pondering pondering- this mystery of love I woman Tle The truth of the matter so far r as love loe between man and v woman ian Is la concerned Is la that It is entirely a a matter of sex at at- at attraction traction and that neither eyesight nor or judgment plays any part an part In it whatever We love or we hate by Instinct and nd not by reason It i is a II matter itt m-itt r of th the heart not net of ci the head A AWO WO WOMAN AN may see aee In iii a a mast man every ever AdmirAble quality and anil yet et her her- vision of lf his perfection does dou not make her love him bini A man malt may perceive a woman oman to bo be the incarnation of all the virtues yet this abstract knowledge doe does a not quicken his pulse nor send one thrill through his veins On the contrary a woman may observe with perfect clearness every defect a II man has and love him none the less leu for them and a man m my Y give gle hi his soul for th woman In whom he recognize recognizes a thousand faults fault It i Is part of the blindness of icy that It does doos not require perfection of III it object NOT JOT 1 every adoring husband thinks Ills plain Maria Marla is II a living picture Il Ho He lb isn't blind to the Iho fact that she Bho has a s stub note carroty hair hall n ii figure lIke liko a feather r r bed nor dots does his affection enable him to 1 look Into her mind and aud sea aco a II wit and Intelligence that the tha general public dots does not 1501 see ceo and amid that in reality are arc not true He lie sees see ee her just and commonplace as ns she the but Is-but Is but he loves her just jut the tame fame If most of us would canvas the list of those thoe we rove love but best we would find that we convicted them of a thousand defects and and weaknesses Indeed we do not lovo love people for their thir perfection but for their faults Every drunken every tempered man woman has a II hundred friends friend where wh r your model scholar and perfect little body has hu one Tho The place pice however where whre love Is Ie not only on blind but has pads over It Its 1 eyes eyu Is I parental love Men and ind women love 1010 each other In In spite 0 of their faults but parents perceive no flO faults THERE hERE Is probably not a mothe aUte who doesn't think that her l children are paragons of oC beauty and intelligence such 11 as the world has bas never been privileged pr to behold before To make her per that her offspring are only ordinary human beings Is an lot possibIlIty One of the pious lies that the recording angel must surely accredit to Us 11 I the tha one ona we tell when a mother presents to u us a red faced squirming little liUI creature with witt no more in- in in individuality than a cream crum Cheese and u us If it isn't the thing thina that we ever caw and if we ever beheld such uch Intelligence displayed on a human face has not suffered from listening to the longwinded long strain ot of vy it some tome doting papa and the wonderful things that Susie said Who has hu not been bored to the very ery verge erge of ot extinction by having had to listen wh lo little baby recited and little Tomm Tommy drummed oa on the piano plana while their parents made no bones o or of asserting that they were exhibiting exhibiting an nn Infantile Booth or I You could see that they were very ordinary little children but their parents parent ees eyes wen wera holde holden hoiden and they actually beheld In their that love 1011 endowed them with and ancl that never nover developed BLESSED be such love lore and aU for tor it enables us to be blind or orD farsighted at will Ill We W see ce what we lov love or love lov what wha we as see sas and it I all put part of the miracle DOROTHY IY DIX Copyright ht by Ledger |