The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-06-08
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Il tell o the plain and u~nvarnished
truth about the whole business IL that
modern architecture In responsible Tor
the decrease in the number OF mar
riages In our upper sets" said one OF
the brightest young women on the
north side. trying to make herself
heard above the rattlety-bang of the
carette ~ she rode by the side of .
friend the other day. She had . pretty
good. sHong voice, with better carry
ing power than she herself suspected.
II not only reached h ear Of her
friend. despite the carette din. but even
reached the other passengers sitting In
he Immediate neighborhood. Several
people became interested. but endeav-
ored not to betray the fact.
YES" continued the young woman,
II have solved the problem which q
been perplexing people for 30 long. and
I have 1t In a nutshell"
Here the facial expression Of the
short young woman in the blonde jack
ct sitting next the speaker became
great Interrogation point.
I'll tell you" went on the discover
er. "it is the absence Of partitions and
hut DOORS" The nearer looked as
founded and put her mouth In position
to utter IN ejaculation Of astonish-
ment. but her friend didn't give her
time. There you have It and IL 10
true. every word Of II. You needn't
look surprised, for I know what I am
talking about. I have been making
data for a long time and I am prepared
to prove my assertions. 1t In hardly
necessary for me to be more explicit
or 20 into details. Anybody under
stands what / mean when I say that
the absence of closed doors and parti-
lions between rooms constitute the
radical cause at the bottom Of the dis
ooaa MokinO 1nvn Il lrnnn0oA Tn he
a confidential operation"
Here a little man damned up in the
corner OF the carette dropped his news
paper Inc when he picked II up began
reading it upside down.
We'll, now. let me say that the men
nowadays are no jays n you can't
fool them at ALL" she continued. Even
the nerviest Of them decline to attempt
the hazardous feat of lovemaking II 1t
isn't going to be strictly an affair for
two. and two only. Do you think a
man is going to sit In IN front parlor
and make owe to you when nothing
but a few ropes with knots In them or
a portiere obstructs the big opening
between the front parlor n the back.
where all the members Of the family
are sitting. Not by a long h Love-
making is no long-range affair, and.
moreover. 1t isn't meant to scatter.
Imagine the state Of mind a man
would be in trying to make love to q
girl and all of the time being conscious
of the act that her mother n father
and little brother and sister were In
the hex room hearing every word he
uttered. 1t would simply give the poor
fellow a congestive chill II he attempt
ed such an utterly impossible thing.
1.-THE man who invented these big
openings between rooms with folding
doors which are never folded did not
know, / am sure. what an internal
machine he was devising. That feat
ure OF our interior architecture to-day
has been responsible for more broker
hearts and unfortunate arrangements
than all other causes In the world
combined. 1 know q bright man over
on the south side who had Tour mar
riageable daughters. They were the
loveliest girls you ever saw, n when
the Oldest one became old enough to
marry her father wondered why she
didn't receive any proposals. Then
soon the second n was old enough to
marry M still the oldest n had re-
ceived no chances and so on until
| finally the youngest had acquired
enough year, to enable her to enter the
matrimonial field, and still there were
no takers.
Eat last one night as papa and mann
ma were sitting in the back parlor .
remark in a masculine voice about the
family foated put from the front par
lor where Florence was entertaining a
caller. Well. a great light dawned
% papa with a terrible ~suddenness.
| The next morning before . o'clock he
had carpenters and brick masons at
work on the interior Of that house. and
before night that folding-door space
was walled up. In a little less than
a year all of the lovely daughters OF
this perspicacious father were either
married or engaged.
Several other fathers o n h various
sides Of the city have followed the ex-
ample of that pioneer paterfamlIias
with the same excellent results. But
men learn slowly. and there have not
been enough reformers to make any
appreciable increase in the number OF
marriages in the upper classes, where
they have been so scarce in late years.
AS for the present, I may say h Q !
am glad the time of year has arrived
when we are no longer 20 dependent
upon the insides Of houses as we are
during the Winter."-Chicago ChrOni-