The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-06-05

SSWhich would you take, Pop. the cir
~ has always stayed at home and
med housekeeping. you know-cook'
Embroidery an all the other DO
stic yirtues-or the girl who has hao
no out in the world an earn her Nv,
famong men-a business woman.
M" asked the Smart Cashier. VINO
M bantering with the Pretty STEM
npher, as the Old Bookeeper came
tfhc office. =.
ned his office coat and began arrang-
his properties for the days work
lerc are laws against II; nave one
now" and he laughed at his own
}, as elderly men Of sunny temperd-
e76tt sometimes do.
~6uf I'm serious" persisted the cash
Va who never was known TO be really
n, ous about anything. IF you were not
ulried and wanted wife, which one
y /. Id you take?"
IL ohe Pretty Stenographer who had 1T
M, imagination and less sense or humor
avlE red in the face and then smoothec
d her walls, at the belt and patted
back hair into place with studied
B}N'anted and then try and get her tc
me-" replied the Old Bookkeeper.
VI uBut wouldn't you consider her rails
I. Pop?"
4l@Ol SERIOUSLY. 50 .OtlE aS L hllS" NA"
ala. parents were respectable. That is a
e1csfion for each man to settle for him
n, rules and advice don't go.
Hll the older members OF the office
I Re called the old bookkeeper Pop.
30 much because of his aSe-he was
Ik more than 55-as because of his IA
',-1y ways. Even the junior partner
aHasd him Pop when he did not ad-
b him as "Mr. Pickwick." The book
H,er had grown 10 be something OF
LID I.a,-1xF n.tt,
' Hpt to be with his juniors. II his dis
lion is kindly and his digestion good
who, moreover, has read widely.
considerable of the world and still
-\s upon life from the sunny side oil
street.
T :etting a wife with the same care
he would give 10 buying horse or
ntomobne" the Old Bookkeeper went
AMI f'there might be some excuse for
ng In third party. But In pick
rthl out wife for another man there
chance for expert opinions. Con-
trdy ionality forblds man giving q
,minary trial 10 a wife. He cannot
dH with her six months or year to
her temper. her patience. her cook
or her ability TO save or squander
nrnings. And the woman is just as
ne;'i to his shortcomings II is con-
&c game on both sides. A woman
gses a husband very much as she is
TO play a morse AT lIc races SuS
rvl&s her eyes and jabs her hatpin
Ugh the programme and bets on the
, she has punctured. or she puts her
+ob,lby on a horse because OF his name
4eiQ 1e colors worn by his jockey. Now
n nan builds up an ideal woman with
- Hhc qualities. mental and physical.
he thinks he wants his wife to pos
Then he takes the first girl that
nn0ues his fancy and proceeds TO invest
With all these imaginary virtues and
cVH ntions. whether she has them or not.
/, at girl wants him she'll get him and
l0W:he advice his friends can give
lEt her only fans the flame. OpPo-
SQlst has made more matches than were
brought about by designing parents.
You really want the girl. and"
ne the Pert Telephone Girl giggled
Klanced at the Pretty Stenographer,
her pompadour and tried 10
iinconcerned. as the Smart Cashier
=, ly interposed But l don't want
id Gglrl Don't make this so personal.
re. JUS, asked your opinion as 10
a lpa would make the best wife, the
L;A.ess young woman who knows men
Alzil their work and not much about
,hold affairs. or the home girl who
zen raised by careful mother, but