El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-09-24

wv , ELL now they've got it into a
NJ song-'I want a girl just
like the girl that married
dear old dad"
1 heard it at picture show the
other day, and it made me just the
least little DIT cross.
Let's get together and talk it over
and see just how much truth there is
in it after all.
You want a girl just like the girl
that married dear OLD dad, do you? 4
nice, quiet, modest girl who stays at
home and helps mamma; a little mouse
of girl without a thought outside the
house and the yard gaze; a domestic
angel ready to sit up all night with
sick baby and be up at dawn to get
breakfast for father, with a smile on
her lips and a song in her heart;
girl who can mend a torn coat so that
you couldn't see the darn; a girl who
wouldn't miss a prayer meeting to
save her life; a girl with genius for
cooking and talent for children and
a gift for managing girl who can
put up fruit and make pickles and
keep the bills down and never turn
hair when you bring home three great
hulks of hungry men to dine without
a word of notice.
An economical girl, a girl who can
make over her Sunday black suit three
times and have it turn out prettier
the last time than it was the first. A
pretty girl, with her own hair and her
own figure and her own blush-just
such girl as you see on the cover of
the old-fashioned handkerchief boxes
with lace scarf over her head and a
canary perched on her pointed finger.
Yes, we've all heard about that kind
of a girl-and a mighty nice kind of
a girl she seems to have been, too, in
her day-but how about the man who
went with her? What's become of
him?
He was the man who saved his sal
airy for the house furniture instead of
spending it for moving picture shows
and pool tickets; the man who stayed
at home and helped his mother do the
dishes; the man who hurried back from
the office to get in the kindling wood;
the man with the one new suit a year,
and the ear muffs and the Wristlets;
the man with just one ambition on
earth up to the time he was GA red
wheeled buggy, a whip with a red rib
bon around it, and a moonlight night
to take his girl out buggy riding"
He was the man who settled down"
when he married and stayed settled;
the man who never went a step out
side the house without his wife any
more than he'd go without his shoes;
the man who took turns walking the
floor with the baby; the man who sat
man who slept out in the barn when
his wife's folks came to visit and
filled up all the bedrooms.
He was the man with just one girl
and that girl his wife; the man with
no club and no golf links and no ball
games; the man who went to the circus
once a year and felt dissipated when he
took his wife and the children TO the
side show-thats the kind of man who
went with the girl that married dear
old dad, young man. Where has he
gone?
Can you find one like him some
where in the woods? If you can you
might find the girl right there with
him. and then we'd see how much you
really wanted her and what chance
you stood to get her.
Why, she wouldn't look at you. She'd
think you were fast" You go to the
picture show three times a week, and
who'd stay at home with her and help
peel the apples to dry for winter?
Play golf, you, Why, that is boys
play she'd think She got along with
out games and she expects you to do
it too.
Theaters. pleasure trips-why, the
idea; and you could be saving all that