The Washington herald., 1917-08-17
nd aspirations and interests that you

and aspirations and interests that you
have.
| You see, son, the trouble with youth
Is that 1t Is near sighted. II can't
see beyond the day That Is why Il
makes so many fatal bIunders In
picking out It's life companion. II
thinks that fits chills and thrills and
hectic feyers are a chronic malady
whereas they cure themselves in a
few months, at longest 1t believes
that some miracle will happen to
some particular girl SO that she will
always be sweet and twenty, with
golden locks and peaches and cream
complexion and a lissome figure, in
stead of growing fat and forty and
gizzled headed.
That Is why a man marries a girl
| for no other reason than be-
cause she makes his heart go tenn
porarily pit-a-pat, and finds out six
months later that he has made a
mistake and she wasn't the right girl
for him. or why he marries a living
picture only to realize that A Por-
trait of Beauty isn't enough to fur
nisb the house of matrimony on, and
| that 1t gets faded and damaged and
| dismal and ugly as the years go by.
If 1 were a young man out on a
still hunt for the Right Girl. / should
pick out the girl whom l found most
companionable the girl in whose
society ! was never bored, and never
had to rack my mind for topics Of
| conversation. There can be no strong
er tie beween a man and woman than
sympathy, and so when you find the
girl to whom you instinctively tell the
story of your life, and who listens
with absorbed attention while you de-
scribe the details of what you used to
do when you were small boy with
pale green freckles, and who gets all
wrought up over your account of what
you said to the boss and the boss
said to you, why, son, go to 1t.
Lead her to the altar without fear
i or cold feet, for there be many wives
| of whom a man tires. but never of
| the wife who likes to hear him talk
| about himself.
But the whole OF the law and the
prophets in choosing the right girl
| for a wife is in taking the one that
| likes to do the things that you do.
| II you want to get on in the world.
the right girl for you Is practical.
| common sensed, hustling. pushing,
ambitious woman. not a fiabby, spine
] less, timid little creature who hasn't
got enough energy and intelligence
to run a four room fat success
| fully.
II your idea Of life Is comprised In
cabaret scheme of existence. marry
a girl who is a good locker and a
good dancer, and who knows how to
| show off her clothes, instead Of a
! demure wren of woman who is
never happy outside of a nursery and
| smells of the kitchen.
| II you want a wife who will be a
real companion to you. don't marry
| Fluffy Ruffles who thinks 1bsen is a
brand of canned goods. and whose
conversational repertoire consists of
| the things that he said" and "she
| said" and they said about moth
| ing. Any girl is the right girl for
| you, son. as long as she meets the
greatest need OF your nature.
But don't marry a girl thinking you
can change her and make her over
TO suit yourself. Heredity and en-
vironment got the start on you there,
son, and ran what looks to you like a
character as soft and pliable as dough
| into a mould as hard as adamant be-
J fore you ever saw her.
+, And IL you want an advanced view
as to what sort OF a wife a girl is
| going to make, what she will look
| like and what she will do some
twenty-five years hence, take a good
| long squint at her mother. For ninety
nine times out of a hundred women
revert TO type, and are even as their
| mothers were before them.
lConyright, 1917. hv the Wheeler Syndicate Inc }