El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-05-27
NAN who saws that he is mid


n die aged and thinking serious
4 Iy Of matrimOny, writes me
a letter in which ne asks my aid IN
picking out a wife
He asks which type Of girl the
blonde, the brunette or the auburn
haired makes the best wife. and says
that he is unable TO choose between
them, because while he personally pre-
fers the blonde, he has always been
told that blondes are tickle and con-
ceited.
can only say to my correspondent
that any man who picks out wife Oy
the color Of her hair has so little IN
teIligence that he deserves to get
matrimonial gold brick Whetner ne
does or not. The color Of a woman 8
hair. presuming 1t is hers by nature,
and not by right OF purchase, mas as
much to do with the kind OF WlIo
she viii make as does the color Of the
dress she wears
Success or failure, happiness or
misery in married life depends upon
the character of wife, not upon
whether her hair Is yellow or black or
red, or green or blue, or whether II IS
straight or curly. Ten or fifteen years
OF married life changes the most
raven tresses. or the most golden locks
to drab white, and then the thing that
counts to a man is not the hair on his
Wife's head but the sweetness Of her
nature, the loyalty Of her heart the
The Way the Hair Is COmbed.
If We're man trying to pick out
a wife 1 should take only one look at
a WOman's hair. and that would be.
not to see what particular color 1t was
but whether it was neatly and SEN
slbly cOm0ed or not / shouldn't marry
a woman whose hair looked as if II
were always tumbling down, and IN
need of a good shampoo and box Of
hairpins. for I should know by that
token that she was a slovenly woman,
and would make the kind OF wife that
would come to breakfast in curl
papers and a dirty wrapper. and who
would keep a house that would look
as If a Kansas cyclone had Just passed
through it.
Nor should I pick out for a wife the
girl whose COiffure was always an eX-
aggeratiOn of the style, and who had
a bUshel. more or less. of false puffs
and switches pinned on her head.
should know that she had neither good
taste nor good sense, and that she was
one fthose silly, frivolous little
I creatures who. as Rose Stahl used TO
say in the Chorus Lady have moth
ing on their minds but their hair"
The Color of the Hair.
The way a girl does her hair is her
own, and revealing. and therefore
worthy OF mans consideration The
color Of the hair is natures. and in
dicates nothing Of the girls DISPOSE
ton for in spite Of all of the super
stitlons, red headed girls are no more
apt to have fiery tempers than black
haired ones. black haired girls are
I blondes, and golden haired lassies are
neither more nor less cold and selfish
= than maidens with nut brown locks.
So except from what tips YOU Can.galn
. from the manner in which a woman ar
ranges her tresses- IL IS the height OF
folly 10 judge woman from the stand
point Of the Undressing parlOr.
If I were selecting a wife I should
outside of her head but for what was
on the inside OF it II would be her
Z brains. and not her hair that would
count with me, and If / could find q
woman who had the sense she might
7 have hair the color of q rainbow, or
wear wig for all that I would care.
Sense Beats All Else.
That is the one thing in matrimOny
that has got hair and straight fronts
and twenty inch waists and peaches
and cream compilations, and all the
other attributes Of beauty. simply left
at the altar. It is the one unfailing
I panacea for making married life a
grand sweet song, and the man who
gets a wife whose head piece carries
I a full equipment of Intelligence need
never inquire whether she is one or the
Seven Sutherland Sisters, or hangs
her rat across the back Of chair az
night
For. if a woman has sense. all other
charms and virtues, even hair, viii be
added unto her according TO her need
I should pick out a wife for her gray
matter instead OF her golden curls,
! because I would want for a life COM
paniOn someone whom I could trust 20
take a sane rational view OF every
sub iect, and who would be a helpmate
instead OF a hindrance- / would know
that Of I married flaXen-haired doll
baby 7 should have 70 treat her as q
I doll baby as long as she lived. and
would be afraid that I would set
pretty tired Of playing with a doll dur
ing IS or 40 years of matrimony.
Sense Is First Qualification.
I should look ont for common sense
first. foremost and all the time in my
. selection Of q wife. because l would
{ know that the woman who had that
would be equal to any emergency that
should arise. tt wouldn't make any
J difference whether she had been
raised rich or poor, whether she had
/ been used a luxury or hard times
whether she knew how TO cook or
+ sew, or not If I was able to give
I her Paris clothes and a Limousine she
would know how to adOrn them. If I
Z was poor she would get busy with a
{ cook book and a sewing machine and
I turn herself into a Gordon blue and a
= dressmaker before YOU could say Jack
/ Robinson.
I should pick out a woman with
! common sense because she would never
/ be a wilmer and a complainer. She
/ would know that there must be rain
/ as well as sunshine in life, and when
/ the dark days came she would meet
I them with a courage that would never
( pick Ont a Woman With Sense.
/ I would pick out woman with
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