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Show DR. VANCE'S DAILY ARTICLE o . A By 1K. JAMi I. VANCE They were too merry girls, sixteen years of age. When is 111.- richer f There are no cares, and life is just one big mood of thrills They i n sitting on the back seal of an automobile coming home from a glorious afternoon drive into the country. Beside them on the sent was a big pile of daisies they "had gathered by the way, and the tills were slowly tearing the flowers to pieces, pulling Off the snow -while- petal! One by one from th- little golden discs in the center. As they pulled, they counted the old rhyme by which, from time Immemorial, sweethearts have di:n-ed di:n-ed One. I love, two. I love, three, I love. I sriy " This game of hearts seemed lo fascinate fasci-nate them. They kept It up until t:ie big bunch of daisies was a pile of : ulned flowe-s. keeping the score on a sheet of paper as each little blossom revealed Its secret. But they wero happiest when the count came out on "eight, both love.-' Then It was they paused to clap their hands, and their ripples of laughter became a very serenade of love. "One. I love." There life's romance starts "Eight, both love." There Eden builds. Life is all B game of hearts. Leave love out, and ull goes stale It Is love th!it makes the gams But how badly we play It! Four years more, or SVen less. tho?e j girls will be tearing to pieces, not flowers, but heart Will they do It OS recklessly as they scrapped the daisies Love is holy nothing more so. Nevui strikes a diviner hour than when lovw comes, and never a sadder than when love dies Down "the lnnp. long trail a-wlni-ing" comes a man to meet the maid who Is tearing off the white petals from daisied hearts she has not seen ' him yet. but that divinity which mates , Immortals guides the steps io tne trystiSg-place. They meet, and "eiyht, both love" Cod has done abou . all that He can do that it may be 'Paradise 'Para-dise regained " The man and woman must do the rest. There is but one thing that can keep their Bdrn undeflled. It it ! "Eight, both love" Love is the only thing that can make a happy home., and it must be "Eight, I both love " oo I |