El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-07-22

of the ear marks 5v which q
girl could tell wha. SORT Of a
husband a man wouly make before she
got him, and in time TO sidestep a bad
matrimonial bargain.
1t is equally important that a man
should judge of the kind of wife
that & girl will make before he has
agreed to stand for her board bill for
life
Matrimony is generally conceded TO
be the greatest game Of chance in the
world, and the picking out of a life
partner is believed to be attended with
about the same degree Of certainty as
locating the bean in a she'll game at a
country fair. To a degree this view Of
the matter is true. but it is only true
because both men and women play the
game Of matrimony with their eyes
shut and their ears stuffed up, and
they refuse TO take note OF the guide
posts that are erected along the road
to the altar
In reality matrimony is only a stage
of evolution. 1t develops whatever is
best or worse in mems and women's
natures. It doesn't give them an en-
tirely new set of characteristics
What ever a girl is before marriage.
she is going to be after marriage,
only a little more so, for marriage is a
mordant that sets the color of
womans nature. and this enables any
man 70 forecast with sufficiently rea-
sonable accuracy the sort of a wife
woman will make from the kind of
girl that she is.
Every man. for instance, prays to be
delivered from jealous and nagging
wife, but he looks to his guardian
angel to preserve him instead Of de-
pending on himself
Tn tn Him.
Yet the matter is absolutely in his
own hands, for a hunchback woman
could easier conceal her deformity
than the green eyed woman her jea1-
ousy. IT, therefore, you are engaged
TO girl who has fits and Mysteries
every time you notice another woman,
and who can't accept a reasonable
explanation Of why you should have
taken some old woman friend to lunch
or why YOU walked up the street with
some good comrade girl that you work
with in the office. why, son, be warned
in time Break off your engagement
with that girl before you let yourself
In for lifetime of misery.
She will make the sort Of wife that
will keep you in terror all your days
and that you will have to lie to and
deceive until you hate her and have a
contempt for yourself. She will go
asleep looking for letters from women,
and sniff at your clothes to see if they
smell Of perfume and if there IS any
poudre de riz on the lapel of your
coat, and she'll be forever popping into
your office to see what you are doing
and you won't dare to employ q stem
ographer that is under IS and bald and
with false teeth
Jealousy doesn'. develop suddenly,
like appendicitis It's a chronic COM
plant that is constitutional with some
women. and it's an incurable malady.
So pass up the maiden who gives un- |
mistakable signs that she is afflicted |
with II.
Every man. likewise, has horror of /
getting a wife who is a domestic ty- !
rant. And well he may. but it is his |
own fault if he does. Just take a /
good, long squint at Angelina in her |
own home. son. and see whether she |
bosses her family II she rules the |
roost and her mother looks at her be- |
fore speaking and her little sisters |
and brothers keep in the background |
when she is about, duck and run, |
though you were on the very steps of |
the altar, unless you feel that you |
would actually enjoy being henpecked
The girl that can run her own family |
can run a husband with one hand tied |
Deh1nd her In marrying her he hasn't /
even got a show for his white alley, |
and he will spend the balance of his !
life eating what she thinks is good for |
his digestion, going to the church she |
approves of. visiting her family and |
friends and wearing the neckties that |
she picks out.
Every sensible man also desires to |
avoid marrying a woman who Is ex- |
travagant and unduly fond OF dress /
He can blame nothing but his own |
stupidity IL he marries one. Every /
woman wears price tag on her |
clothes that proclaims whether she is |
a good bargain as a wife or not, When |
q man deliberately picks out a girl /
that looks like a living fashion plate. /
and that he knows is dressed far be- /
yond her means. what right has he to |
complain If, in time. he grows as hump |
shouldered trying TO pay her bills as |
her father did, He had his warning |
and he refused to take it.
Every man desires q wife who will /
be companionable and sympathetic and /
the things that he does.
Are there not thousand ways to test /
out whether a woman is broad and in