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Show If SUB I J i: ROSA j mimi I jAAAfiAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA How Long Mutt 1 Suffer? DOOR NATHALIE U In Deed of ' im very real sympathy for she U suffering tbe pane of Brst love, unrequited, un-requited, and thert art do mora cruel torments In too world. John did Iot ber, but be learned to forget ber In ont brief summer, and poor little Nat whose world collapsed when aha beard tbe news, bai not been able to do tnacb la the way of eating or aleeplng since that time. She Is not merely sentimental. Slit was really In love wltb the boy, John. She' bad made some sacrifices to keep him near ber. 8he stood ready to marry him and then be walked past ber calmly looking for another pretty face. It's all humiliating and bard and dreadful, particularly when her family fami-ly stands unsympathetic, and silently critical, beholding her torture. They bad told ber not to fool around wltb that boy. THEY had known It would come to no good, etc, etc. Each day Nat wakes to a world of despair and hopelessness. Each morning morn-ing fresb anguish assails ber as memory mem-ory brings back tbe dreadful truth that John Is gone forever and that she must go on living without hlra somehow. She tsks me rather pathetically how long she niust suffer. She's beard that Time la tbe Great Healer, and so she alts, waiting for time to pass, and praying that tbe healing will soon take place. But boney child, that's not the way time Is going to heal you. You've got to stop, looking at tbe clock If you want that hurt of you re mended up. Let old time sneak up on you wben you'r not looking. Let him cure your aching heart while you're busy at something else. For heavens' sake don't put him off by watching for him too eagerly. No mtl n a van Hma nan atnn.4 hn vwm v .s aiH u vs uiuia Just you turn your back on time, and the thought of what he must do before your frame of mind will be normal again. Plunge yourself deep Into anything the bobby which Interested In-terested you most before John came along. YouH be startled one day to And yourself laughing quite naturally. Or you'll discover to your consternation and wonder that yon haven't thought about John for an entire twenty-four hours your mind has been so full of this and that, you really haven't had a second to spare. That's the work of time, my dear. He did that for yo'j. But In order to let hlra do his bes' work, you've got to take a hand and help him out Turn your back on John find something some-thing to make time pass as quickly as possible and the faster he passes, tbe more he'll be able to help you. |