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ries oe 5 RE SSEBan 9 wit te eae THE MIRROR | Fs Centuries ago, a_ wise Roman wrote the famous line which says: "The anger of lovers means only the renewal of their love." Students of the emotions have let this saying stand as the final word upon the sub- ject. It does, of course, embody an im- mense amuont of truth, and the truth _ lies very deep down in human nature. That lovers should never quarrel is almost inconceivable, and it is per. haps quite safe to say that two per- sons who do not quarrel prove by this very fact that they are not true loy- ers. , A man and a woman who love are, for the time, in a state of mental ex- altation. To each there is nothing in the world so vitally important as what the other does and says. The memory and the imagination are both stimulated to abnormal activity _ and become so sensitive that the ver- iest trifle assumes proportions that are overwhelming. When lovers meet, each notices with wonderful _acuteness every little indication of feeling in the other--the tone of the voice, the expression of the face, the touch, the manner, and much more the words that are spoken and the thoughts which the words convey. When they part, these things are all remembered and brooded over until proportion and perspective are utter- ly destroyed, and things that before had no significance. take on porten- tous meanings. Then begins the process of ques- tioning and doubting. Does not this, or the other thing, seem to show a change, a shade of indifference, per- haps the beginning of the end? Loy- ers in the moments of their most per- fect happiness are often haunted by the thought that what is so supreme- ly beautiful cannot endure, and they begin to experience dread even in the moments of their intensest joy. This brooding, this doubt, and this dread of the approaching end at last affect their conduct. A woman, for example, when she thinks or half im- agines that she sees some little lapse in the devotion of her lover, will sum- mon up her pride and argue with her- self that if he has begun to change, then she will also change; and when he meets her next he finds her cold and unresponsive. And then in his turn he will go away and brood, and he will be certain that he has found in her the dreaded change already coming on. - And so they will write letters, per- haps, accusing each other or regret- ting that they ever loved; and if they meet they will spend, in questioning and acusation, the hours that. might have been so precious to them both, until at last they actually think that all is over, and they separate, believ- ing that they have really reached the end. Then they begin to be un- happy with an unhappiness so poig- nant that nothing else can be com- _ pared to it. Life seems quite ended Questioning and Doubting for them. They are restless and miserable and mirthless, and they lose sleep and they cannot eat. Suddenly there comes to each, at about the same time, a sort of reac- tion, and they begin to accuse them- selves. They recall each other's per- fections, and all that has been lost. The woman reproaches herself bit- terly for having thrown away, by her own unreasonableness, the most won- derful thing that has ever come into her life, and the man begins to call himself a brute; and for the moment both really see how petty and how unimportant were the _ trifles that estranged them. At last something happens to bring them again togeth- er or they use little half-conscious stratagems for a meeting that shall be apparently acidental; and the very moment they hear each other's voices, every thought of doubt is swept away in the great rush of tenderness and longing that overwhelms them, and they fly into each other's arms, and the woman cries, and their happiness, from its very contrast with their wretchedness, is more intense and marvelous than ever. Then they beg forgiveness each in turn, and they tell each other that never, never, nev- er again will they doubt or disbe- lieve. So far they have justified the old saying that the anger of lovers means the renewal of their love. The trouble is, however, that they now enter up- on a new stage of emotional suffer- ing--the stage of self-tormenting. When they part again and after the first joy of their reconciliation be- comes a little more remote, each be- gins to search and question in a new way, which is a despairing sort of way. The woman, for instance, will say to herself: "I see now that he did love me with all his heart and soul, and he has been generous and for- given me; but I know that what he suffered while we were estranged has taken something from his love. It will never be quite as it was before. He will not care for me in the old way, because of all that I have made him suffer." Therefore, she begins a second time to magnify small trifles, to study all the little things that happen when they meet, to read with perverse and maddening ingenuity all sorts' of subtle meanings into the words that he has said, and to detect the dawn- ings of indifference in his manner. A sort of hopelessness comes over her, and perhaps she will ask herself what is the use of going on and see ing their love die before her eyes, and she will wonder with an unhap- py sort of morbid feeling whether it is not beter to end all now and suffer Ff the inevitable agony once for all. Then again on his side he will feel the change in her, and he will say to himself that obviously since their former quarrel she has ceased to be the same, and that her love is dying; and he will go through all that she has just gone through, and presently they will have another scene and another parting and an- other period of misery, until they have learned once more what utter fools they both have been, and then there will be a second reconciliation and a second glorious renewal of their trust and love. This thing may go on indefinitely. The worst of it is that in its extreme form this happers oftenest to those who love the most, and for that very reason. It is just because they love the most that they care the most and that they fear the most. One might imagine that this intense emotional excitement, the eternal round of partings and meetings would, in the end, wear out their love. But love is very wonderful. If it be true and deep and perfectly sincere it thrives through suffering; and the very fact that a man and a woman have tortur- ed one another tnites them all the more firmly. It permeates their whole life with the thought and the omnipresence of the passion that possesses them, and they go on and on until if in the end they marry and their lives become really one, they learn to know each other perfectly, and little by little to put aside the morbidness of introspection, and to come out into the sunshine of a last- ing peace and trust. In other words, when lovers' quar- rels arise from causes that concern themselves alone these are never dangerous. They only feed the flame, and they give that unity of feeling and that continual conscious- hess of each other which can come to those alone who have not only thrilled with happiness together, but who have suffered and despaired to- gether. It is very foolish to one who sees it going on before his eyes and who applies to it the standards of a healthy indifference and an unemo tional common sense. Many of its manifestations, indeed, seem _ scarce- ly sane. Yet, after all, it appears to be a necessary part of the strange discipline through which two terrib- ly intense and fervid natures must in- evitably pass before they can be blended into one. ere eee DON'T SUFFER EZO Will positively relieve the worst case of ECZEMA STANDARD DRUG STORE Your Easter Suit Made to 500 select patterns in Measure tweeds and worsteds from the best English mills, every suit guaran- teed to give perfect satisfaction or money re- funded. PRICE-- $24.00 Roy Reynolds Co. Phone 1423 47 Downie Street. 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Dr. Johnston's Callous-6ff Company STRATFORD, ONT. READ THE ADS. Humor Hits in Little Bits By "Doc" A fool and his bridge partner are soon parted. * * * Elmer--Do you talk in your sleep? Roy--No my wife says I'm perfect- ly exasperating--I only smile? ak * * According to a scientist plants have a language of their own. We would say that the thistle's remarks are very pointed. bad * * If you wish to escape criticism, do nothing, say nothing and be nothing. While in Toronto last week we wit- nessed a great scene of "necking." 'We attended a wrestling match. A * Maybe you think things are break- ing hard with you, but just think of Solomon. Whenever he went out at night he heard "Don't be late, now." Six hundred times. * * * "Sandy," said the Scotch lad's father, I do wish ye'd stop saying 'tak it from me.' It sounds sae fe- dicolous from a Scotchman." * a * One nice thing about modern meals if one can isn't enough you can open another. * * ca "Wal," says Seth Hppkins, "the boy of today can't come home. and say the accident happened because the horse got the lines under it's tail." * cad " The question is ofen asked: When is aman drunk? We would say when he thinks that a street car has re- volving doors. * * Ea A defendant in police court recently said he had been in jail several times and was proud of it. Now if there is one person we admire it is the man who has the courage of his previous convictions. * « * It is the fashion nowadays for peo- ! ple to take shorter honeymoons, and take them oftener. few minutes. Another sign of spring. We saw one of the neighbors throwing out the Christmas tree. * * * Who is the Stratford Scot who shaves himself, except once a month when he goes to the barker because the barber takes a magazine with a continued story in it? * * * One newspaper describes an insur- ance agent as the man who tells you how beautiful it would be to die in or- der to set your wife up in business. * * « Mrs. A.--Do you love me as much as you did when you first married me? Mr. A.--Good Heavens! You talk as if I had married you more than once. * * * Roy--"I had no sooner got in the house last night when Mabel's moth- er asked me my intentions.' Teddy--"That must have been very embarrassing." f Roy--"'That wasn't the worst of it. Mabel called down from upstairs: 'That isn't the one, Mother'!" a * * A lot has been written about the new motor speed record of 207 miles an hour, but we are sure some of them that pass us on the highway must be going much_faster than that. * * * And that's that! 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