The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-02-14

Editor, The Press-I have read
your love and matrimony" column
with much interest and believe 1t a
good thing; it will help respectable
ladies form the acquaintance OF
upright and honest gentlemen.
noticed in the issue of February
8 blacksmith who wants a good,
losng wife. l wonder how he ex-
poets any clean, nice woman to love
a man when his breath smells SO
much like tobacco sweathOuse
and a brewery that the wife would
dread to see him coming home on
account of the disagreeable odor he
would bring with him.
l am looking for good. honest,
true man for husband l wonder
how many would want me If l were
to advertise like this: l am a nice
neat little blonde, weigh 1875
pounds, am 26 years old, five feet
three inches tall, am a good, jolly
girl, smoke and chew tobacco
and go in the saloons now and then
and take beer or two, am always
home by II p. m, have no bank.
roll nor do expect to have one un.
til I get married and get a hubby
with similar habits to take care OF
1t for me. Yours, Elsa, Spokane
Wash.
Editor, The Press-A few weeks
ago l happened to pick up Press
and reading here and there in the
paper caught the heading Letters
on Love and Matrimony." l have
read quite a number of them since
that time in the later issues of your
paper and must say that the argu-
ments that have been put forth pro
and con have been at times anus
ing, at times nonsensical, at times
too plain not to read between the
lines the real object especially the
male contingent has had In view
If man really means business he
must have something to back him
up; he must have some grounds
to stand on, hence there would be
no necessity to address reply care
general delivery" and the like.
Why does he not give his residence
address If he means business? How
many of these general delivery
men have not even the faintest
means of support for themselves,
much less for one whom they de-
sire to take as a partner for life.
On the other hand, why should
men with say 5000 income a month
give up Aft not ideally happy life
of observation-disclosures the less fair.
ly satisfactory existence, in which
his cares are none but his own? A
woman, nowadays. is not the WON
an of days gone by. The modern
woman does not believe in the
simple life. Country life, SO dear
to hundreds of thousands, of well
educated men. has no attraction fol
the average girl today. Her child
hood days and the liberty giver
the young girl during her growing
into womanhood" is such that she
abhors anything that smacks Of
that healthy and simple yet beauti
full country life.
The majority of girls that really
go to the country go because they
know they will get a home. perhaps
better than their own surroundings,
perhaps worse.
An educated man who wants to
live in the country wants either an
unsophisticated woman or an edu
Gated woman as his wife. Charm
in country life Is so much sweeter
than in city life that comparison
is out of question. And this charm
cannot exist unless the husband
and the wife are either both edu
Gated and thus take full interest In
the worlds doings, or else that the
husband recognizes his wife's in
tellectual superiority and refine
ment, and thus atones for whatever
shortcomings he has, or vice versa