The Colorado statesman., 1908-05-23
A MODEL HUSBAND
CHICAGO GIRLS IDEA WHICH
WINS PRIZE.
Must Swear When Occasion Demands
and Be Able to Buy Next Meal
Must Have Face to Attract
Dogs and Babies.

Chicago.-An Omaha newspaper
asked its unmarried women readers
the following question: IF you were
| to exercise your leap-year privilege
what kind of man would you pro-
pose to?" An astonishing number of
replies were received, and it is note
worthy that in a majority of the cases
the man described has yet to be born.
The prize offered for the best answer
went to Miss Myrtle Bascom of this
city.
Here are some of the qualifications
of Miss Bascom's ideal man:
He must be a good meal ticket pro-
WIDER.
He must be able to swear when the
occasion demands it.
He must not stay out too many
nights in the week. But he would not
be forced to tell where he had been.
He must be old enough to know
what life is. He can't learn this too
young.
He must have a face that will at
tract dogs and babies. Beauty is no
object
He must have just money enough
to know where the next meal is COM
ing from, and not enough so that he
can live without working.
He must be an American and gen
tleman. Foreign noblemen and Ameri-
cans of the Thaw class need not apply.
This ideal is patterned after James
Dahlmann. the Cowboy Mayor" of
Omaha. But it is not him she wants,
for Jim" has been married for some
| time.
Miss Bascom, who is a pretty blonde
of about-well, she says she is past
| 18-explained why she would choose
such a man. She does not want the
mayor, for she does not believe in TAX
ing man from his wife, but she does
believe that another just like him
would be a very fit companion for her.
Jim has been my ideal man for
many years." she said as she sat in her
cozy bachelor apartments. He is of
the honest, frank American type. That
is the kind for me. l don't want any
man with titles. One just like | think
the mayor is would be better than
fellow with an unpronounceable name
and bunch of debts"
When she was asked why she In
serted the provision that man could
use IBID d. as she termed it, she
said that she believed there were
times when it was almost justifiable.
Besides that" she added. 81 would
not try to lay down the law to a man
whom l was proposing to. Women
generally make the mistake of telling
their husbands what they shall do.
That is what causes so many many
divorces.
MAN and wife should live together
and each keep in their own sphere.
If man tried to tell me what to do,
and it was none of his business, l
might hit him over the head with
skillet. And he could hit me, too,
il I mixed up in his business"
Miss Bascom does not think that
, beauty should enter into a marriage
contract. 1t is all the same whatever
the parties look like if they are suited
with each other, she says.
81 can always tell a nice man when
1 see him going along the street. If
doS Jumps up W heh LIS manu- anu
babies cling to him when he takes
them in his arms, then he is my kind"
she explained.
Wife-seekers will find no favor by
trying for the hand of Miss Bascom.
She will pick out her man when she
finds one. The man who comes after
her will get the cold shoulder-unless.
But she has never seen that man yet,
she says.