Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 286, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1912 — True Love. [ARTICLE]

True Love.

The course of true love never did and never can run smooth. If it did it wouldn’t be true love. The single certain Bine qua non of true love Is that It shall not run smooth. For such is the constitution of human beings. When people set out to be friendly and congenial they can succeed only by keeping up a gentle hostility. Consider the average evening call. How tiresome it is until some one starts an argument or a game of cards is proposed. That accounts for the popularity of games. They furnish a sham and innocuous hostility without which society with one’s, fellows Is deadly. Men and women can be happy together for days at a time if they are contending at golf, at tennis, at cards or at other games. People who can sit around drawing rooms or verandas and chat agreeably are degenerate. They have lost their Bptrit and might as well be dead. —Ellis O. Jones, In Llppincott’s.