The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-07-31
INTUITION SHOULD BE GUIDE TO
 MATRIMONIAL BLISS
Prima Donna Has Rather Unusual Solution For the Marriage Problem Says Man Should Not Have the Prerogative of Asking.

Help! s. O. S. and P. D. O.! Eileen Castles, the fascinating little Irish Australian prima donna. of the Aborn Opera company and the Princess Bo- zenas Of sttThe Spring sMaids,' which will be sung for the first time in Bridge port on Monday evening, Aug. 2, wants to upset our most sacred traditions and rearrange our social customs so that women will do the proposing in stead of the men.
 In the name of all the bachelors of BFidgep ort who have been dodg- ing old maids and Jumping back fences to keep away from .natrimony ever since they got out of their teens again we cry help with the distress signal flying to the strong winds of the Sound!
 Any single man who has, met Miss Castles knows what a chance he would have of further evading matrimony if such a. charming girl as she should back him into a cosy corner, with the lights seductive1y low and no possible exit and say: Will you. marry me ?'' There could be but one result to such a terrible onslaught. Resignation from the Woman Haters Club would follow and the Benedict Club would have a new member.
 '"The traditional woman's intuition is a reality and not a theory" says a. ter sense of selection than men. Therefore. they should be allowed to do the proposing. I knew a, very sad case of a girl who loved a man and wanted to marry him, but was re- strained from proposing to him loy her natural modesty and fear of breaking conventions. He would have mar ried her, but as she was not very de- monstra.tive he did not know that she cared for him and he was too proud or tinnid to risk a refusal. Along came the Twentieth Century maid who was not so slow, proposed to him, was accepted and to the parson they went and the knot was tied. After the marriage the man learned that the other girl had 1onged for him all the time, the wife learned the truth and none of the triangle have been happy since How much better if custom had been brushed aside and the first girl could have said the word. which would have made this world heaven for these two norta.ls?
 eff I was a. prominent club woman I would start a movement to bring about such an order of affairs How ever, I would place one safeguard for our protection. I would stipuIate that no girl should have this privilege until she is twenty-one years old The sentin ental comes to youth through the romance or 11V1nSs IL IS IIiS k1Ilu that comes from the heart and dreamy soul and knows no reason or logic The object of such anectio on is akin to the heroes of books. He is very handsome, wears wonderful clothes, but whose existence is like the froth of the ocean
 Mental love is the kind that comes equally from the mind and the heart. It comes after the age of chicken love- Regard for mans character rather than his persdna1 charm counts First love- Love-at- first sight are all puppy loves and, no matter how nice the puppy may be, common sense and the stern realities of this life must be met along with the love that endureA.
 Have ever proposed to a man? Now. I don't think that is a nice ques- ton to ask me. I will answer NO in order not to incrimtnate myself.
 To look at Miss Castles, one would not have Ehe nerve to ask if any man had proposed to her. It is not a question of IF but how many ?''