The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-07-20
OF INTEREST TO WOMEN
PROBLEM OF IMPORTANCE tt EN-
Gagged COUPLES FULLY ANSWERED.
Woman's Vanity Serves n Good Cause
A Bar Association Rebuked-The
Coming Hats.

From the Connecticut plantations, says
the New York Sun, this tender-lipped in
quiry is like signing sent:
T the Editor Of the Sun-Sir: The Sun
always is ready to discuss questions Of a
delicate nature. 1 desire TO have its opin-
ion on q matter concerning a couple who
are about TO be married. The young wom-
an is thirty years of age and her intended
husband two years her junior. They have
kept company for a year. Six OF the upper
front teeth of the young woman are false.
The young man does not know IL. In your
opinion should she tell him or wait and
have him find it out himself? G. k.
Hartford, July 10"
Really here are two questions, one Of
age. one of the minor morals. We puff the
first away. The ages of persons about to
contract a marriage are their own business
and pleasure. A girl of eighteen or nine
teen is not so young as a boy of twenty
one. A youth of twenty-eight ought to
have. and may be presumed to have. intel
ligence enough to appreciate a woman of
thirty, the opening second and real prime
Of the perfect physical and spiritual charm
of w~omanhood. There are cases enough Of
happy marriages where there has been a
much greater disparity of years. On this
point we refer all students to the leading
case of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Esmond.
And now TO the matter Of artificial pearls.
Engaged folks are not commanded by the
court of conscience to confess 10 each other
all their imperfections. May d%isillusion
never come, but if come it must, far off be
the evil day. And the world is so full of
teeth. We have had to give up going to the
theater because our eyes were dazzled by
the vast reefs of milk-white teeth which
CLEAN from the mouths of the ladies of the
stage. Sure, they must have even more
than the number permitted by the physiolo-
gies. There must be s-upernumerary teeth,
understudies; and all are whittier than
white. Is there anything Of art in all that
dental splendor and fertility? We will
never believe so. A girl is not a horse,
who jaws are to ba rigidly inspected. The
philosopher accepts gratefully all beauty.
or the show of it; and cares not to see
other than the rose OF youth upon even
the "paintiest" cheek. Remember Charles
Lambs wise aversion to prying into the
bowels of unwelcome truth to save a half
penny
How about man, petty man? Is there no
padding about him? Are there no secrets
of his in the close bosom of the dentist?
Why, Miss Hartford-for you are no widow
| OF would know your value D6IleI-lUeEb
are stage lovers whom YOU have worshiped
with wide eyes, perhaps, and yet there is
scarcely a stick of hair upon those heads
you think so gracious; and BARRIERS and the
Lambs Gu know, and all Broadway
knows those wigs. Men are not what they
seem. Consider for a moment those hand
somes of hOplites, the Putnam Phalanx of
you town. Hyperion's legs, the front of
who had watched those legs go by said TO
us t~houghtfully, They are too good to be
true" Yet if there is a touch of art in
those pillars of perfection, why should they
be admired the less? Everybody has the
right to look as well as he or she can.
Make no deep scrutiny into the means.
The theory of marriage by purchase
inquirers, but the principle of caveat emp
tor, the taker must keep his eyes peeled,
stil holds dds good; s False teeth ho6 are sound In IN
equity also and in the wisdom for this
world as we'll as for the happiness of mar
riage. it may be prudent not to confess
them. Before we foreswore every other
joy but that of reading historical novels of
the commercial school we saw somewhere
III the works of Mr.. Henry Fielding some
thing like this:
Would you still possess your lover,
Would you still his love retain,
Never let him much discover"
Man is essentially one of the bandarlog,
the people aboreal in their habits. He
itches with inquisitiveness and politely at
tributes his failing to the woman. He is
the original rubber" trust. He will find
out all he can; and that will be little enough
it his wife be wise. What is the use OF
telling him too much? His head is timid
enough already. But a woman must have
no secrets from her husband. Mustn't she,
though? Doesn't she, though? Bah.
Diplomacy avoids friction and blabbing and
blarting never did any good yet. Smile
at the swain, lady of Hartford, with your
teeth, original and selected. Smile, and
joy will jump through the mans veins. II
ever it should occur to him, in moments
when he thinks himself especially per-
spicacious, to question any of your teeth,
or if some Miss Wardle of an aunt of yours
maligns them to him, it's a cent to a Van
derbilt that he will pick out the genuine