El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-03-28
When Autumn Weds Spring
Then There Is TrOHble-TwO Seasons
Cannot BE Joined inN Marital
Happiness.
- RN Dnrnfh- DIn -
By Dorothy /


~ VERY middle aged man and woman
who is able to support wife. OF
- husband, should set married. but
there should be a benevolent commission
with arbitrary matrimonial powers
appointed by the government TO pick
out suitable mate for the afflicted
party and see that she or he was OF
appropriate age character and habit
For when We hear the last call for
dinner in the matrimonial dining car
there is something that makes US all,
both men and women, want 10 order
nothing but squad chicken And. be
IeVe me, mats an indigeStible mOrsel
cor those who have arrived a. the years
Of indiscretiOn- sim, there are those
VINO Try il and risk the consequences
Look at the rich old men who marry
cebutantes, Look at the old women
who kidnap baby boys for husbands,
And look at how soon they have to
send IN a hurry call Tor DR.. Divorce
of course, it's all easy enough to I'M
oerstand. The older We get the more
the wonder and the glory of youth ap-
peal to us The more atrOphied our
enCJlOns, the more aluring the en-
thusiasm Of the young. The deader our
interests in things the more we try 70
borrow the interests Of the young
on, IL isn't hard TO see why youth
attracts age.
But-and it's a big exception-what
age IOrgetS is that IL does not attract
youth It repulses youth. Age just OF
young There is something about the
decaying flesh, the falling faculties, the
very 0lSlllusiOns Of age that ill the
young with the same horror they have
OF the tomb.
Age gives itself to youth, but youth
always has to be bought by age. Even
our childrens attentions are largely q
matter OF purchase, and the more that
We can do for them the more certain
We are Of their dutiful devotion. When
ll comes 10 marriage II is only the rich
VINO can persuade Cupid to overlook
inc difference in years You never hear
o. a young girl falling in love with a
lcor cid man, or OF a young man en-
tleellnS q poverty stricken old woman
10 be mis- bride.
or course, the old man is sure that
Ataudle is marrying him for himself
atone, and that she and that hungry
1dinlly OF hers have no eyes on the
present pickings and his future VIII
rot at all What she's planning to
40 IS to have box at the opera, and
me dlnneFs she viii give. and the par
ues she viii go to, and the jewels and
the Clothes she viii have. That's the
price she figures on for being an old
man darling. He thinks he can con
uol her. but age has not the strength
70 struggle with youth, and the old hus-
pretty young wife
Youth must have its fling, and il you
marry young girl YOU must be con-
tent 70 drag Your old bones around TO
are aching TO be in bed.
You must see your young wife giving
10 young men the smile she will never
nave for you You viii be torn with
the futile jealOusies and suspicious of
age, and you VIII be bored-Oh. how
YOU viii be bored with the companion
snip Of a child who does not know one
thing that YOU know. and regards an
o. your opinions as fossiliZed.
For an old man to marry A young
SRI IS nothing but seniIe dementia-
Don't commit il. Marry a woman of
suitable age to yourself one who has
her own tWiuges Of rheumatism and
who is interested in red flannel instead
OF lingerie. one who has been about
until she is glad to put on easy Slip
pers of an evening and sit BY the table
and read. instead of going TO balls:
one who. like yourself. knows what has
zone before, and with whom you can
say, Don't YOU remember
Each age to its own. Keep in your
own class. and your indian summer
romance viii be as beautiful as Your
sPringtime one, but when springtime
and autumn try to mix up, we set
matrimonial Billiards.