s in Things, mistakes
protestations and appearances for realities, and so modern marriages
are consummated on this basis, and the caricaturists have depicted
Cupid as having exchanged his love-darts for dollars, but this is a
slander on the little god who wouldn't know a dollar if he could see
one. "It is not true that one knows what one sees; one sees what one
knows," declared a clever Frenchman, and as the average modern bride
and bridegroom are forced, or think they are, by modern standards of
living, to know dollars better than they know Love, their perverted
vision sees Cupid's arrows tipped with the dollar mark. But even the
dollar mark spells US, united, and if they are indeed truly united in
love, wealth untold is theirs, and if they are not thus united then
indeed are they poor in happiness, which is the only real poverty.

But even in the very failure to attain happiness in things, married
couples have learned or they are learning, that there is an interior
nature which must be considered if marital happiness is expected.

In all too many instances it may take many experiences and the road to
the heights may for a time be lost but let us remember that "Love
never faileth."

It has been said that "love makes gods of men," and we have taken this
phrase as a charming bit of hyperbole, whereas it is a literal truth,
because when two individual souls have rounded and balanced their
natures by means of love, they come together in an eternal union, and
are immortal; "in their flesh they have seen God," and the pilgrimage
is ended.

There is a phrase current at the present day, belonging to slang, that
universal language of the masses, "the Volapuk of the melting-pot." It
comes to us simultaneously with the affinity-wave and the soul-mate
quest; and it is both pertinent and timely, although by no means
always wisely applied. It is the expression "I have found my
seek-no-farther; he (or she) is the Real Thing."

Life is a succession of experiences in the quest of immortality.
Immortality would be a curse instead of a blessing if attained alone.

Even the attainment of so unworthy an ambition as riches is a mockery
if unshared by others. Fame is like a ruined and deserted castle to
the one who has achieved it, unless there be the one other to share
it. Even the philosopher, the philanthropist, the humanitarian, he
whose love nature is supposed to find satisfaction in making others
happy--can not realize the compl