The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-06-25


what age a man is likely to
make the best husband
This is a question that is impossible
TO answer BY the calendar. Il depends
J upon the individual man Some men
are easiest domeSticatcd II caught while
young and tender Others can never
be tanned until age and rheumatism
make them feel that they would like TO
cat out OF a good, kind, motherly wlfe's
hand And there are other men who
can never be thoroughly house broken
at any age.
Generally speaking, however. a pru-
dent woman who desires 10 be happy,
though married, will avoid the two
extremes Of age in selecting her huS-
band, and will say mo" to both young
Romeo and tottering Grandpa when
they come a-woolng
OF course there Is no denying that
there IS something peculiarly appeal
ing and allutng IN a boys love max.
ing lie IS so impasSioncd so deadly
IN earnest, So convinced that love IS
The only thing in the world, and that no
human being IN the whole history OF
humanity ever experienced the same
emotions that are surging through his
soul, that It IS no wonder ii foolish
girl is swept off OF her feet by it, and
lets him persuade her 10 make the fatal
journey TO the altar with him
Alas II is the undoing OF both oi
them Cold statistics show that most
of the marriages that end in divorces
began m calf love romance and were
entered into by boys and girls who
were too young 10 know their own
minds OF what they really desired in
lie partner Common observation
bears out the danger Of early mar
tiages, especially the marriages OF
boys
IL IS sinister and significant fact
that IN almost every scandal III which
married man and a woman figure
YOU will find out that the married man
married when he was a mere lad. Also
when YOU see faded, washed out.
neglected woman sitting alone At home
while her good-looking and iascnat.
ing husband roamS around IN society,
and is pitlcd by all who know him for
being tied 10 a dowdy wife whom he
has outgtown. YOU will ascertain, II
YOU investigate that he picked her on,
when he was an uniformed boy and
Is spending his maturity repenling his
salad days tastes
There are no such uniailhiul hu,
bands as those who qualified in the
husband class too young.
The truth is that nothing equal, the
ease with which boy can iall IN love.
except the facility with which he can
fall out oi love Youthful passion in
masculine breast is fierce flame
that burns nscli out SO completely il
doesn't even leave cindcr on the
hearts hearth to remember the girl hy
The kind OF girl a boy adore, IN
the early twenlieS bore, him IN the late
ihirtieS This IS the case whether he
is married to her OF not, That is why
woman Is nothing short OF an mn.
heclle 10 trust her fate to man before
his tastes arc formed before he has
seen enough oi woman to know what
he 3, doing when he selects one inf
keeps, and especially before he ha,
tasted enough ~ romance to have had
his I'LL " II. and 10 he willing 10 set.
tie down 10 daily diet Of the dome,.
tie brew.
Another reason why girl !, taking
a long ,ho, az happiness II she marie,
\ very Young man is because a hoy !,
almost invariably selfish. undi,riplin,i
and cgoll,liell He lacks the pa,iene,
in hear With anothets faults and
weaknesses; the wisdom to steer the
matrimonial shin into safe port, and
when he finds ont that marriage doesn't
mean billing aud coolng, but bills and
bad cooking, and heavy responsible.
ties, why, he's mighty apt 20 turn sutl,
and etpuchy and blame M, wife int IN,
hardship, he ha, brought down on hi,
own head
|. lie, inst too Young and weak y,
hear the lead he has shouldeied. frr
ma'tmony IS grown man, job. nn,
a boys
nut II ,nung boy makes a selfish
and urannlcil husband an old man
makes worse one Never was there
less truth m any adage than the one
about !, being better 10 he an old
mar's darling than ,oung mans slave
he Young woman who marrits an
old man w the ialuou, belief that ,h,
' going TO he able 10 twist him around
her little irget finds on, that ,he