ROMANCE.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 47, 25 February 1927, Page 6

ROMANCE.

Tin- i- a »t<Tiily mattoi iif• in t n-j<—nn<i romantic men air few and far lirtv.crii. Men may not regret it. but women d«>. I've loves a man with a tnucli of romance about him. lie pleases her innocent vanity. lie embroiders her life for her. And women like life to he embroidered. They j like the decorative: the charming manner, the ' touch <if sentiment, the ge-ture that hints, even I if it does not convince. that they are admired, j adored, revered. rcsjiected. deferred to. noticed. | and thought nl>out. I Men work. They have no time for thoughts j of those trifles which to women who remain at 1 home, with only a social life to occupy their I minds and energies, mean -o much. j Will he bring me -nine (lowers, a present — i something ? think* the lianevc. the wife, the i intimate woman friem 1. Me docs not. He lias | thought about her. He adores her. But it ha« I not occurred to him to make a gesture. She is I subtly disaj>|»ointed. He never notices jt. i Hordes of men are like this. .Many even take I a pride in having "no nonsenseabout them, j They prefer to think of themselves a« strong, j silent men whose inmost thoughts the woman of j their choice can mysteriously divine—and that j ought to be enough for her. . But it ii«ut is enough. Hence '!,e mormons trade in romance—in the romantic novel, the • romantic play, the romantic film. Hence dreams and yearnings. Ilomance in the-e days of casualness and slang, the cult of cthciency in men ami boyishness in women, ha-, l»ecome an industrr. And the bulk of the public wh>h Mipj«>rts thr industry and poms va-i sum- "f ni« ney into ii are women. There are v.omen who. i : !a- v. h«>!c. i;e «]•-. appointed. They may )-■ l-appilv |ra ,v,] nff but life ha* nnr n.me up 11 j«-ir drca:.-. Men have faintly disappointed th-m. They f.-.-l they have had the cake <•! life, but the icing which, like children, they had put aside till last, the icing which is so much more enchanting than mere cake—that has been stolen while thev wcrt not looking. Romamx'. A man finds j; in achievement in adventure, in hiuits under n grey, minv skv •?i -nance land-. risk«. and b.-.'.tV. A woman seek- it in a flower, a glance. .: V.i--. a passion. That is the unfortunate thin- about romance. So few men are wise enough to ,-cc it, if onlv foi a little tinvs, with a woman'a cyei, ~ —C.P.T.