The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1917-08-17

in chiffon and no man knows what he is
getting until he takes his prize pack .
age home with him, and then its too /
late to change.
, Nor is the uncertainty of woman ,hc7p
only difficulty in tho case Really, the
chief difficulty is that the man doesn't
know what he wants himself IN a wife,
or rather he wants one thing in sweet
heart and another in wife, which is as
absurd as wanting a garment which
would he a swell bathing suit and a
smart suit 10 wear TO business.
Therefore, son. in trying to decide
which is the right girl, try to get some
mental picture OF your own meal OF
wife. Do you want wife who will he
thrifty and economical, or do you want
one who will he good spender and
look like fashion plate Do you
want q wife 10 dance the fox trot with
you, or one who will have cooked you
good dish OF corned beef and cabbage
for your dinner2 Do you want wife
who will be a companion to you, or
one who will sit at your feet and ask
you what you think she thinks De
you want a wife who will phy golf with
you and who is an cut OF doors woman,
or one whose idea OF sport and excite
ment ccnters around the bargain table
in department store'
II you will decide these questions, the
trick OF picking out the righ, girl for
wife isn't such marvel OF legerde-
main as it is supposed to be For all
married happiness rests at last on CON
gcnlality and community OF interests,
and when a man and .asn have these
nothing else matters. All the little dii
ficulties are swallowed up in the big
deligh, OF living with one who has the
same tastes and habits, the same ideals
and aspirations and interests that you
have.
You see, son, the trouble with youth
is that IL is near-sighted !, can't see
beyond the day That is why it makes
so many fatal blunders in picking out
its life companion. II thinks that its
chils and thrills and hectic feverS are a
chronic malady. whereas they cure
themselves in few months, tlongeSt.
1t believes that some miracle will hap
pen to some particular girl so that she
will always be sweet and ~, with golden
locks and peaches and cream complexion
and a lissome figure instead OF grow
ing fat and ~ and grirlled headed
That IS why a man marrlcs a girl for
no other reason than because she makes
his heart 20 temporarily pit-a pat, and
finds out six months later that he has
made mistake and she wasn't the right
girl for him or why he marreS living
picture only TO realize that portrait Of
a beauty isn't enough to furnish the
house OF matrimony on, and that II gets
faded and damaged and dismal and ugly
as the years go by
II were a Young man out on a still
hunt for the right girl, ! should pick
out the girl whom ! found most com
panionable the girl in whose society
was never bored and never had to rack
my mind for topics OF conversation.
There can be no stronger tie between a
man and woman than sympathy, and so
when you find the girl to whom you
instnctvcly tell the story OF your lie,
and who listens with absorbed attention
while you describe 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 IT,
Lead her to the altar without fear OF
cold feet. for there he many wives OF
whom a man tires but never Of the wife
| who likes 10 hear him talk about him.
self
H But the whole OF the law and IN,
prophets in choosing the right girl for a
wife is in taking the one that likes Il
do the things that YOU do II you want lC
pe, on in the world, the right girl Tor yot
H is practical common scnscd huVtlng
II pushing. ambitious woman, not illhby
II spnelcsS, ,im,d little creature who hasu'
II got enough energy and intelligence {,
il run iour-toom flat successfully
II your idea Of life is comprised IN
cabaret scheme OF existence marry