El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-07-16
Looking Pretty All the Time
Is This Necessary For a Woman n
She Would Hold Affections
OF Husbands
-Bv Winfield Black

aAEwT HEN are these clever peo-
M pie who write things for
the magazines going to
wake up?" said the clever girl I'VE
don't need articles on how to catch
a husband these days OF now to keep
him when we've got him not a bit
in the world. The thing we need is:
low TO take an interest in matrimOny
IS a profession when there are so
many other interesting things to do
My poor mother would have had
an awful time If she hadn't married
fancy living with Uncle Dick all your
life and being a maiden sister. But
it's different with me
IF I meet just the right man, I'll
marry-maybe-bu III think awhile
before I do it. I'm going to get
rather good salary in my line of work
can DO lot Of good in the world
and. oh. what a lot of fun I'm going to
have. III have TO be awfully in love
with a man to give all that up-just
to be Mrs. Somebody. I love being my
self-its so interesting. I'm afraid
I should hate aWfully just to be some
bOdy's wife--withOut even my own
name to go by"
And the prettiest girl Joined right
in with the cleverest girl-and the
things they said the average every
day man would have to do to make
| them love him would have Mortified
I Miss Corelli really now, why don't you
If she had heard them.
But, all the same ] read Miss Corel-
lis article on the greatest thing in the
world and how TO keep it. and I really
did wish she hadn't gone back to the
Fancient days Of superstition about
men and the way to make man stay
in love with his wife.
It was all right for people who be-
Heve in the dark of the moon idea
and who wouldn't sit - at a table 1or
anything, to say and to believe when
they said, that no man could love q
woman unless she looked pretty all
the time, but in this day and time,
Miss Corelli, really now, don't you look
look around you2
Who's the man the most outrageous
" in love with his own wife that you
knoW2
acquaintance? / don't believe It. She
isn't of mine
A pretty woman is the thing for a
short conquest, but for a long race
give me the average looking woman
/ every day in the week. Why2 Well,
she's apt to be more interesting for
, one thing; and then. sisters, men are
really not all such blithering idiots as
some would have US believe-really
they are not. I know men who love
their wives because their wives are
good women and true friends and jolly
comrades and good fellows and gentle
acknowledgements 1 dO-and I've
been acquainted with several men VINO
stayed in love with their wives aILeE
they had seen said wives with their
hair twisted around a comb and a
mouth full of hair pins-such was the
incredible folly Of the creatures
Look pretty every minute or you II
lose him" Good gracious, Whatever
would become of the world II all the
married women in If agreed with youE
What would happen to the baDies
[ Who'd run downstairs in a heavy dres-
sing gown and make a husband mus
Z tard plaster when something nee eat
en- had gone wrong with hlmE And
then there's the husband-what would
ne think OF US If we should turn
around and say the same sort Of thing
A woman did say it in Chicago the
other day-a very clever and wen
known woman she was, too She de
cIared that she left her perfectly good
young husband because she hated the
way he looked with his collar off.
shaving.
And the world reechoed with gusty
I laughter of the gods / wonder why 2
Just as I was finishing Miss Cor
ellis article the prettiest girl was
T wonder if it never strikes these
people who are so busy telling US
how to keep a husband that nine
out of ten of the divorce suits are
brought by wonderland not by men
at all To judge by statistics II IS the
men who need the advice on how to
keep a wife"
Rise up. Mr.. Plain. Every Day, Or
binary Man. with the plain, every day,
ordinary wife. and tell US what you
think about it-hOnestly and truly.
The ordinary cost Of a Want Ad in
the IL Paso Herald is IS cents. IT
| reaches an average Of about 10000
/ readers each issue.