The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-05-13
MUST CUSS AND ABLE
TO BUY MEAL TICKET
Butling In on housekeeping
Means He Gets Skillet
Over the Head


Chicago, May la.-An Omaha news
paper asked its unmarried women
readers the following question: III
you were 10 exercise your leapyear
privilege what kind of a man would
you propose tog' IN astonishing mum.
Def OF replies We're received. and it Is
noteworthy that in o majority OF the
cases the man described has yet to be
born. The prize offered tor the best
answer Vent to Miss Myrtle Bascom,
OF NO 339 La Salle street, this city
Here are some of the qualifications
Of Miss Bascomb's ideal man.
tie must be a good meal ticket pro
wider
He must be aa swoal when the
occasion demand
he must moi s.Ay Ont too many
uights in lie week. But he would not
be forced to tell where he had bean
lie must be old enough to know
whgt life is- lie can't learn this too
youns.
lie must have a face that VIII at
tract dogs and babies. Beauty is no
obiecS
lie must nave Just money enough to
know where the next meal is coming
from, and not enough so that he can
1--we without working
Ho must DO su American and a gen
tleman Foreign noblemen and Amer.
cans II the Thaw class need not ap.
ply.
This ideal Is patterned after Jane
Dahlmann the Cowboy Mayor of
Omaha But it is not him she wants,
tor jim has been married tor some
tims
Miss Bascomb. who IS pretty
blonde OF about-well she says she Is
past eighteen explained why she
would choose such q man. She does
not want tho Mayor, for she does not
believe ia taking q man from his wife,
but she does believe that another just
like him would be a very III compli
ion 70. hei
Cowboy Mayor Her Ideal.
Jim has been my ideal man for
many years, she said as she sat in hor
coy bachelor girl apartments. lie
Is OF the honest, frank American type
That Is the Kind for ME. don't want
amy man with titles One Just Ike
think the mayer is would be better
than a fellow which an unpronounce
able name and a bunch of debts,
when SHE was asked why she inscr-
ted the provision that q man could
use "big ID. as she termed H. she
said that sho believed there were
times when It was almost iustiiahie.
Besides that" she addod. Il
would not try to lay down the law 10
a man whom ] was proposing TO. Wo-
men generally make tie mistake Of
trllnp lhel husbands what they shall
do. That is what causes so many di-
vlcel
sMan aud wife should live together
and each keep in their own sphere. II
a man tried TO ten me what TO do.
aud it vas none of his business,
might bit him over the head with
skillet Aud he could hit me toe, il
1 mixed un in his business.
Miss Basromb does not think that
beauty should enter int marriage
COMPACT u Is all the same whatever
the parties look like o. they are suited
with each othe she SAYS
Il can always tell q nice man when
] see hm going along the street II n
dog jumps up 10 lick his hand aud ba-
bios oling TO him when he takes them
in his arms then he is my kind, she
explained
Wife seekers viii find ne favor by
trying foi tho hand OF Miss Bascomb.
she VIII pick out her man when she
finls ene The man who comes after
her viii get the cold shoulder unless.
BUT she has never seen that man yet
she SAYS.
r.. +. Fuller Is here from Oklahoma
City on matters before the supreme