LOVE SPOILT BY TRIFLES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 20704, 30 April 1929, Page 14

LOVE SPOILT BY TRIFLES.

Joan; promised Peter that she would not, on any account, put rouge on her cheeks. Then everyone began.to tell her how pale she looked. In desperation she went back to her rouge pot, but Peter got to know, and one more engagement ended in -moke. Too many engagements are broken over such tVifles. A slight disagreement, a., little tiff, undoes the good work of years. A girl sees no possible harm in touching up the pale complexion that nature gave her with a little colour ; she would never dream that so small an incident would he regarded by her betrothed as a' grave broach of faith. But a man will swallow a fact and strain at a prbriple. Think of the couples that arc chaffed t of love. I know a-youth who fell head over ears, lit love with a charming girl whose only defect was a slight ca.st in_ one eye. But his sisters and their friends ragged him so much about her that he began almost unconsciously, to magnify a feature that he had scarcely noticed before. In time, his nerves broke down under'', what had become an obsession, and he jilted her. There are so .many .ways of looking at a-.problem,, and men, and women nearly always-differ in their view of it. Perhaps both are right; although they may seem wrong o each other. What they need is an understanding and broadminded friend to reconcile their opinions. Unfortunately, are egotistical, and once their vanity, is wounded it is difficult to get them to listen to the voice of reason. Even whe-- they do so, the .damage they have already done themselves is .leyond repair. Lovers are given .to brooding over fancied grievances. They cannot forget and forgive a little -blemish in their beloved that they would overlook in an entire‘stranger. Their sense of the real is transfigured by their - : iioi; of the ideal. The revelation of a defect obvious to others, hut hitherto unnoticed by, themselves, may shatter their dreams and bring them back with a crash to earth. Why will lovers he short-sighted ?■ If they would only look at their problems through the spectacles of common sense they would get a more distant view of things, and be able to put events in their proper relationship. The discords that result ii so many, broken engagements would then be solved, arid we should not meet so often with the tragedy that lies behind the bald announcement that “the marriage will not take place.”—Glasgow Weekly Herald.