ded, and the dear comfort of the
other's love lies forever around the sore and doubting heart.

[Sidenote: Fire and Snow]

It is to be the light in the darkness, the belief in the distrust, the
never-failing source of consolation. It is to be the gentlest of
forgiveness for all of one's mistakes--strength and tenderness, passion
and purity, the fire and the snow.

It is to make one generous to all the world with one's sympathy and
compassion, because in the sanctuary there is no lack of love. It is
"the joining together of two souls for life, to strengthen each other in
all peril, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each
other in all pain, to be one with each other in silent, unspeakable
memories at the moment of the last parting."

The Physiology of Vanity

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The Physiology of Vanity

[Sidenote: Conceit and Vanity]

"Vanity of vanities, all is vanity!" It is the common human emotion, the
root of the personal equation, the battling residuum in the last
analysis of social chemistry. There is a wide difference between conceit
and vanity. Conceit is lovable and unconcealed; vanity is supreme
selfishness, usually hidden. Conceit is based upon an unselfish desire
to please; vanity takes no thought of others which is not based upon
egotism.

Vanity and jealousy are closely allied, while conceit is a natural
development of altruistic virtue. Conceit is the mildest of vices;
vanity is the worst. Men are usually conceited but infrequently vain,
while women are seldom afflicted with the lesser vice.

Man's conceit is the simplest form of self-appreciation. He thinks he is
extremely good-looking, as men go; that he has seen the world; that he
is a good judge of dinners and of human nature; that he is one of the
few men who may easily charm a woman.

The limits of man's conceit are usually in full view, but eye nor
opera-glass has not yet approached the end of woman's vanity. The
disease is contagious, and the men who suffer from it are usually those
whose chosen companions are women.

Woman's vanity is a development of her insatiate thirst for love. Her
smiles and tears are all-powerful with her lover, and nothing goes so
quickly to a woman's head as a sense of power. She forever defies the
Salic law--each woman feels that her rightful place is upon a throne.

[Sidenote: The One Object]

The one object of woman's life is the acquirement of power through love.
It is bec