Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 143, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1910 — WOMEN AND LOVE. [ARTICLE]

WOMEN AND LOVE.

Only the Isolated Girl Able to Kee> Illusions as Time Passes. In Harper’s Bazar Gertrude Atherton, the novelist, has an interesting article on love. She knows her subject well. Among other things she says this: “We all know that the older girls giow, the more difficult are they to please in the matter of man; that is to say. when they have the opportunity to meet a reasonable number of men. It is only the sidetracked girl (generally in small towns deserted by the young men) or the too sheltered girl, who keeps her illusions. Women that see too much of men soon lose these. In mixed colleges the process of disenchantment begins just that much earlier— in the most plastic years of the human mind. The girls who, almost shamefacedly, announce their engagements immediately upon the close of their collegiate career, are the undeviatingly maternal, those in whom love of children is so deeply Implanted that no amount of contact (save matrimonial) can rub off the masculine halo. Others may have quite as much good looks and even charm, may even have a certain youthful element after romance, but the maternal element in them does not predominate, and that leaves them free to pause and think, consider; to see the male animal, with which they have rubbed elbows,for several years, exactly as he is. Therefore; they conclude to wait a few years and seek the opportunities to meet men that can companion them, give them something more than a brief romance, a family, or an establishment. Sometimes these girls, particularly if they discover ability enough to make an interesting career, do not marry at all. No man fulfills their ideals of what a life companion should be; they conclude that happiness is to be found alone, not in the surrender of liberty to some one man who may develop all sorts of detestable traits.