The Washington herald., 1918-12-25

partment stores and bargain sales.
a. q famished man does on food
when set down to a feast. They
throw away money just for the sake.
OF throwing II away. because 1t is
SO intoxicating to be able to scorn
that which one has shaved for and
boarded a. II 1t had been ones life
blood.
/. Resides this, the girl who has never
nad any money has no standards OF
expenditure. The poor girl who mar
RES man who is getting 5000 or
1000 year thinks that she IL marry
Ing second Rockefeller, and that
there is simply no end to his income,
while to the rich girl 5000 or $500
year is poverty. She feels that with
such shoe string OF an income they
must economise in every possible way,
and so she nurses every nickel
AS for the girl who has always
helped mother with the cooking.
washing and ironing. continuing to do
her own homework after marriage, II
she gets man who can possibly
anord maid. there Is absolutely
nothing doing for her. She has had
enough of wrestling with pots and
pans 20 do her for a lifetime. and she
never going TO touch another one
II she can help it. Therefore. never
marry girl IL you want q domestic
wife. who has been STEPPED In dish
water all of her life. and whose one
aim and desire when she marries 10
to swim ashore to some hotel or
boarding house.
'If you will look about among your
friends you will observe that the
women who are enthusiastic house
keepers, and who regard a kitchen as
place In which to exercise their
artistic faculties and inventive genius.
and who boast of their economy, are
ali women who were not reared as
domestic drudges. but who took up
the profession OF housewifery as one
Of the pleasantest features of matri-
mony.
| And II you want a wife who will
be willing to spend the evening quiet
ly at home with you. instead of drag
ging you forth after a hard days
work to fox trot at cabarets until
you are ready to drop with fatigue,
marry a girl who has had a whirl-
wind time in society for about four
years. She will be 80 tired of CAD
ding about; she will be so fed up on
balls and restaurants; she will be so
satiated with theaters that she viii
be glad and thankful to sit down by
her own library table and reading
lamp and never bulge from It.
| But II you marry a girl who has
never had any parties or theaters and
whose feet simply ache to dance, she
will be crazy for all the amusements
and pleasures that she has never had.
She makes the kind of a wife who
| spends her afternoons at bridge par
| ties and matinees and stops in at a
| delicatessen store as she comes home
| to buy something in a paper bag to
| feed her family on. She leaves the
baby in charge of the jsnitor's wife
while she goes of to a tea dance. She
is never happy one single instant
when she isn't on the go, and she re-
CARDS home as merely a place to come
to when everywhere else is shut up
! One of the disadvantages of marry
ing very young girl is that a hus-
band has to chaperone her through her
! pleasure-mad years. instead OF her
mother having done the job. The wise
man waits until young woman has
, had the dancing-cabaret-the
| taurant virus worked out of her sys-
| tenn before he marries her.
ALSO, son, in picking out a wife,
| choose a girl who has been a belle,