e THE STRATFORD MIRROR | Cupid's Corner (Continued from page 3) brought up on a type of fiction sup- posed to be good for wearers of skirts, is that love is the most glorious ex- perience we shall ever have, and that without it we shall never grow into the interesting and interested creat- ures we were meant to be, The second unfortunate result of concentrating on romantic love and neglecting the other roads to romance is to multipiy our difficulties in deal- ing with love itself. _ At this day and age, after all that has been said on the subject, even the stupidest of us should have un- derstood that romantic love is most evanescent. It comes and presently it has gone. Out of it another relation- ship which is durable and on the whole more satisfactory may be made if sufficient effort and wisdom are forthcoming from the two parties in- volved--but it is not romantic love, not star-dust, not anything to set the pulses bounding and the eyes glowing. Like most surpassingly love- ly things, rosebuds and days and babies, for instance, romantic love inevitably becomes something else, something perhaps more to be prized, yet something else. The results of the failure to under- stand this simple truth are evident in many unhappy lives. In the first place the lot of the unloved is made harder than it need be. Freud may be partly responsible for the general impression that no sort of happiness is possible without a well-adjusted love-life. But back of him are the long years of po- pular confusion of love with romance, a confusion which has made many a spinster wear herself emotionally thin with self-abasement and self- pity instead of setting sensibly to work at filling her fife with other sorts of adventure. Another result of limiting romance to love is to make marriage about three times as difficult as it ought to be. Half the disappointment with mar- riage could be saved if somehow peo- ple could be freed from the notion that love and love alone is to provide a life-time of romantic adventure. It has become a truism to call the forties "the dangerous age." Feeling the fewness of the days when roman- tic love is going te be possible, the in- dividual.with graying hair and round- ing paunch makes a last snatch at it. What drives him is not so much de- sire to taste once more the sweet ' freshness and pain of youthful love as the desperate fear that all romance is fading forever. Because the only ro- mance he knows about is that of sex, his aberration is in that direction. _ But it need not be. In Gauguin it became -an irrepressible longing to work with line and color. In Conrad it was an urge to learn the use of words masterfully. In others, who are | not genuises, it has been an uncon- | trollable desire to escape the routine of work which has come to seem fu- tile or duli into a new occupation which promises to call out their un- used powers. If the late fling at romance.outside marriage is pathetic, so is the adoles- cent snatch at it through marriage. Every year thousands of 15- and 16- and 17-year-old youngsters marry, simply because they are in the mood for romance and suppose it can only be obtained through sex. A year or two later (that being about as long as the natural course of adolescent pas- sion runs) they are hunting an _at- torney. "Kid marriage" is not new. We have always had it. What is new is the brief duration of youthful marriages. Once they lasted. If the youngsters who rushed into matrimony did not nike it, they lumped it--at least until they got in the neighborhood of forty. Now the tendency is to keep on try- ae ing it with different partners. Various factors are undoubtedly in- volved in-the situation. But one of the most considerable of them must be our emphasis upon the romantic value of love. Part of this emphasis must be charged to the fiction writers and scenarists who mold the emotional life of their public. Hence I sometimes wish that it might. be possible to call a five years' holiday, when all such entertainers had to scratch their -heads for plots showing other ways of satisfying the romantic hunger which bites us all. EST Ua OY 1 Pe a RE | eee he ME Toe ber ae THE STRATFORD MIRROR Eave Troughing and Furnace Work Done promptly and efficiently. JAS. E. COMMERFORD 199 Ontario St. Iron. ERS Electric Curling Irons The youthful charm of wavy hair is made conven- iently possible at home with a Hotpoint Curling You'll find the Hotpoint Curling Iron beiter for the hair--is steadier in temperature, more evenly distributes heat and gives freedom from scorching. 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