Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1915-08-11
WOMEN WHO ARE ALL SHOW.

WOMEN WHO ARE ALL SHOW.
Copyright, 1915. by the Mcclure News.
paper Syndicate.)
"A winning wave. deserving note.
In the tempestuous petticoat,
A careless shoestring, in whose tie
I see q mild civility.
Do more bewitch me h when art
Is too precise in every part"
Men who find married life disap-
pointing nearly always throw the blame
say: Had I but known the kind OF
wife h would make. I would have
held aloof and let some other fellow
marry her. %repenting later"
It's a mans w fault If ne cannot
the sweetheart whom lie has been
counting for upward OF a year will de-
velop into. The quiet. thrifty young
man who is very chary of spending his
hard earned money for clothes. content
to look plain and near. certainly real
ICES that he has an extravagant sweet
heart IL the girl shows up a new hat
or gown almost every time he takes
her out. Knowing her circumstances.
that her folks are poor n have their
own troubles in skimping to make both
end meet. he should not need outside
advice to warn him that the pretty girl
who puts every cent she can scrape up
into finery for her personal adornment.
while the family has scarcely enough
unbroken china to set the table, lives
only for show.
When she weds she will employ the
same tactics. She will a gift
chairs for the parlor, risking the limb
and life of the unwary who Thought
lessly sit down upon them, simply be-
cause gold furniture makes such an
nvco11opf uhnu, Il Cho'10 hovo n ch}ok ON
for dinner nights until every member
of the family is ashamed to look a hen
IN the face. because, while doing her
marketing she is sure to meet all her
neighbours; 1t makes a show before
them to order tow while they are
economically purchasing chuck steak.
There are no heights to which the
ambition of the extravagant wife may
not soar in her determination to q
q show, unless curbed gently, but de-
cisively. II regard for a lovers opin-
ion cannot be !nculcated in a girl be-
fore marriage, he Is foolish to hope for
1t afterward. Show will always come
first; peace. comfort and happiness are
after considerations. II they can be
wedged In, well and good; II not. she
comes 80 much OF a habit with social
climbers that 1t sweeps aside judgment.
love, kindness and sympathy for even
those who need her nc in saving.
The children OF C a mother cam
not be blamed for getting the impress
sion That all things are shams-wom-
ans beauty, love and fidelity; that
honor and truth are only names, bub-
bles a breath may blow away
A man may we'll flee in terror from
tends to the world to be. Young girls
do not need costly raiment, changing
with every whirl Of fashions wheel. to
enhance their charms. The palmer the
maiden the more attractive she Is to
the majority Of young. marriageable
men. They show their wisdom In Sc
lecting such a one for a wife.
He who goes through loves garden
blindfOlded should not complain Of the
wound Of a briar II he has plucked q
rose that would better have been left
on the bush. A straw shows which
way the wind blows. Girls who are all
show blazon he placard to the world
which reads: Beware, take care!" A
man who welded a girl who had the
'make-show" habit to the extent that
experience which illustrates the folly
to which 1t may lead. His wages were
modest, but he denying himself every
thing that he could absolutely do
without he managed to save up enough
to buy the housekeeping outfit for q
take his bride. To his dismay. he dis
covered in going over the items, that
a tablecloth for the pretty dining
table had beer overlooked. will fur
nish hat. promised the mother. re-
Numbering a handsome hand embroid-
cred cloth she had worked with her
own hands for her own wedding and
which was her choicest treasure.
Accordingly the handsome linen
table spread was duly b~eribboned.
boxed and dispatched to the bride-to-
be. Less than a week later the girl.
who was all show, met her future
mother-in-law on the street. The elder
woman beheld her gowned in a
sumptuous creation Of fine linen and
hand wrought t%ablecloth." laughed the
girl, anticipating the others question.
TT was really a shame to use 1t as a
dress out of 1t. haven't II"