The Galleon, Volume 2, Number 2, March 1926 Page: 42
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THE GALLEON
Amorous Extremes of Literature
A revolution has taken place
in the type of love stories that
have been produced since the
time of Ivanhoe and up to the
present day snappy stories. Sev-
eral things may have caused it,
but chief among them is the
Ford coupe and the demand for1
action in the tales of our news-
stand publications.
Formerly, the young swain,
%ho had become infatuated at
first sight of a neighboring
lord's daughter, made it neces-
sary to call on business or to
stop to rest after a strenuous
day of hunting and enjoy the
hospitality of the "old man'."
During his stay he always wore
his cast irori be d gear and
gazed through the bars and
coirr.municate d v h the dams
by , rntal teieatiby, while the
old gentlesmai unknowingly
talked on. After .cvclding on his
future spouse, the young
knight must make a name for
himself before he dare propose.
He would set out on an expedi-
tion in search of the Holy Grail,
equipped with a sheet iron tai-
lor made suit and a hack saw.
He made pin money during his
journey by selling space to post
bills on his shield to the soap
manufacturers. Occasionally a
Saracen would be killed in the
name of the fair lady and the
hack saw be produced and with
much ceremony and pomp a
notch would be sawed in the
galvanized iron leggings of our
hero. When the now veteran re-
turned, he would be rated by
the number of notches in his
wearing apparel. If some chiv-alrous crusader hadn't already
eloped with the chosen one, Sir
Sheik of the Notched Breeches
would claim her by right of
discovery and exploitation.
On the other hand, no long
ceremony is customary in the
modern depiction of love: It
starts with a bang and ends
with a smack. The romance con-
sists of a rapid train of events
that usually climax before the
next sunset. The only expedition
necessary may be financed on
half a tank of gasoline. More-
over, the old gentleman is not
concerned, for it is always a
case of love at first sight, and
love cannot be defeated.
No man has ever written fic-
tion on the half way common
sense ground. One of our great
Southern poets voiced his opin-
ion of these two extremes, when
he wrote the following lines:
In wrecked flivvers long wont
to roam.
Thy freckled mug, thy auburn
hair,
Thy hazel eyes, have brought
me home
To the "baloney" that was
Sir Walter
And now is Rudolph Valentino.
"When I left college, I didn't
owe anybody a cent."
"What an awful time to
leave."
We deeply sympathize with
the absent-minded professor
who cleaned the cat's teeth one
night and then kicked himself
out of doors.42
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