Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1917 — THE HEART OF A MAN LAURA JEAN LIBBEY [ARTICLE]

THE HEART OF A MAN LAURA JEAN LIBBEY

t (Copyright. 1917.) Let's not unman each other—part at once: '—All farewells should be sudden, when forever, Else they make an eternity of moments. And clog the last sad sands of life with Who can attempt to understand the heart of a man? Even the mother that bore him cannot plumb its depths, or gauge its capacity for dtfferent affections. Just the girl his mother thinks he should be interested in he is entirely Indifferent to. The woman who does appeal to him is the last one on earth whom his friends think he could care for. This is conclusive proof that no one can select a .heart mate fpr anuther with -any degree of certainty that each will be entirely suited. Menaredifferentfrom women. They seldom make love a study. The majority of romantic women have their day (Reams, and have concluded just what sort of a man will suit them. They have little or no trouble irf realizing it when a man of this kind who fills the bill comes along; Love is to man a thing apart. He is too busy getting his bread and butter to waste time in conjuring up the style of girl he likes best. He doesn’t think

of that part of it. He leaves it to fate, fortune or the good fairies that are supposed to govern love affairs. Ten to one it’s the woman with whom lie is thrown in contact who makes the first Impression upon his untutored heart. It depends very much upon the cleverness of the woman as to whether she will turn the tide of his liking 4nt<> - friendship «>r . affection. Man’s heart is as impressionitble as a

baby’s. Many of them merely need the intimation that their hearts ba ta gone out to a particular girt to actually believe it. For as a man thlnketh, so he iw It does not take words for a clever girl to cause a man to think that sh“ believes he Is in love. A clever girl once said to a young tnan In whom she was interested and who called by fits and starts, "Somehow I expected you here this evening. You came into my thoughts veryunuch during the day. That is said to mean that you were thinking of me.” He had chanced to see a girl who-resembled her while on his way to business that morning. That caused hiih to remember her. His presence there that evening was the impulse that came to him to step inWhe was passing. She ats tually made him believe there was more to his resolve than he barf imagined. He pondered so long and seriously over that remark that he came to believe they must be intended for etich other. She had played upon the right strings nf that particular mao’s heart- Kvery man is capable of hrv* ing, if the chord is touched by the right woman.