times, and a man six times. And there are persons whose figures rise or fall according to their susceptibility and their personal disposition.

Does love affect our bodily and mental condition?

Of course! Scientists have found that love is the greatest stimulant of the nervous system and an invigorator of the mental powers: it enables the person in love to accomplish great and mighty works which, outside the time of love, he finds very difficult.

How does failure in love affect our bodily condition?

Failure in love not only weakens the body's resistance; it causes many organic disturbances. The effect of failure in love upon our health is far beyond what we imagine... so much so that the number of deaths among disappointed lovers is double what it is among those who are happy and contented in love.

What makes us love?

From the age of adolescence on, every girl draws in her imagination a complete picture of the young man of her dreams; she is forever searching, in her conscious mind and her subconscious mind, for a young man in whom is found that collection of qualities which she has gathered from different sources, at different times, until there is fixed in her imagination a splendid picture of her awaited young man... And men of science have become certain that when a girl meets her young man and her golden dreams come true through marrying him, she lives with him a contented life enfolded in that lasting happiness which we rarely find between couples brought together by interest rather than by love and harmony of taste. And men of science give this assurance to the rising generation, saying: "Beware of undertaking marriage for secondary considerations other than love and mutual spiritual understanding; for a marriage whose foundation is interest, or flight from single life, or fear of growing old and failing to obtain a husband — such a foundation is built upon sand, and it soon collapses, and the couple live in fog and misery,

which before long lead to separation... So take your time, and do not undertake marriage until you have made certain that you have found what you were seeking — the young man of your dreams..."

What do we do if we suffer a blow in love with the young man of our dreams?

It is not easy to fail in love: such

What Do We Do When Love Strikes with the Boy of Our Dreams

failure is like a stab to the very core, and the shock affects our physical and mental condition to a great degree. But the only method we must follow is to forget. Let us forget, whatever it may cost us! Let us throw ourselves with all our resolve into new work; let us travel — if possible — to a new country...

and make the acquaintance of new people... Then we shall feel an energy that helps us greatly to find consolation and to forget...

And foolish is the person who supposes that he will never love a second love, and that there is no other person in the world whom he could love and who could suit his taste.

The fact is that there are tens — nay, hundreds — of persons who, were it given to us to keep company with them, we should find no less attractive than the one we loved. If we search with a will, we shall find a second person, and we shall overcome that feeling of failure which almost shattered our spirits and destroyed our health and our contentment...

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